[hobbit] xymon pluggin not working on server

[David Hay Currie]

Sorry, yes the hobbit_client process is running, but sleeping (which I
guess is because it only runs every 5 minutes?
All files in the /etc/hobbit are owned by root:root with permission 644,
but I checked with another machine that only has the client running and
it is the same, so it should be fine.
/var/log/hobbit is owned by hobbit:adm and it has special permission.
They also are the default permission.
However, when I compared the actual server, with the other linux client
(I have only 1 desktop running Linux), I realized that is not reporting
the client test either.
The linux desktop I installed the client yesterday, and I just added it
yesterday to the xymon server.
Here is the interesting, if I ping the server name (FQDN) it replies
with a different FQDN. The linux server is used for several things so it
has 3 FQDN for example (imagine my domain is contoso.com)
Intranet.contoso.com
ftp.contoso.com
helpdesk.contoso.com
those are the 3 DNS A records, however the server itself should be
called intranet.contoso.com.
Could the problem be that dns reports ftp.contoso.com when the server is
intranet.contoso.com the problem?

David Hay Currie
IT Manager
Leisure Fitness
231 Executive Dr. Suite 15
Phone: 302-224-5018
Fax: 302-224-5001 (atte: David Hay Currie)



-----Original Message-----
From: Rich Smrcina [mailto:rsmrcina at wi.rr.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2009 7:01 PM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] xymon pluggin not working on server

Then the client files will be under /etc/hobbit.

Check the log files in /var/log/hobbit.  Use the tail command on the 
files to see if they are producing messages indicating that a file can 
not be updated.

You did not answer the question, is the process hobbitd_client running?

On 12/23/2009 05:36 PM, David Hay Currie wrote:
> :/usr/lib/hobbit/client$ ls -la
> total 16
> drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2009-11-19 13:05 .
> drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 2009-11-19 13:05 ..
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-11-19 13:05 bin
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   11 2009-11-19 13:05 etc ->  /etc/hobbit
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-12-23 15:21 ext
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   15 2009-11-19 13:05 logs ->  /var/log/hobbit
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   19 2009-11-19 13:05 tmp ->
/var/lib/hobbit/tmp
>
> Those are the access to the client folder, however I did not make
> changes to it, since I did not copy files from the original server. It
> is possible that the only other folder I copied was the etc/hobbit so
I
> would not have to type the config from scratch again. All files in the
> etc are owned by root with access 644
>
> David Hay Currie
> IT Manager
> Leisure Fitness
> 231 Executive Dr. Suite 15
> Phone: 302-224-5018
> Fax: 302-224-5001 (atte: David Hay Currie)
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rich Smrcina [mailto:rsmrcina at wi.rr.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2009 6:16 PM
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: Re: [hobbit] xymon pluggin not working on server
>
> There may be more permissions to fix in the client directory
structure.
> Check /var/lib/hobbit/client.
>
> Also, is the hobbitd_client process running?
>
> On 12/23/2009 03:51 PM, David Hay Currie wrote:
>    
>> I had a problem with xymon server (lost power while upgrading to
>> Ubuntu9.10) and I had to re-install from scratch the OS.
>>
>> That part was easy enough, but I tried to keep all the history data,
>> and I copied the folders into the new install.
>>
>> Today I realized that the folders have not been updated since I
>> rebuilt the server because of wrong permissions, so I changed the
>> owner to hobbit:hobbit as the other folders have, and the permission
>> to 755.
>>
>> In my Ubuntu install the files are located in
>>
>> /var/lib/hobbit
>>
>> The folders I did this are: hist, histlogs, hostdata, rrd.
>>
>> I discover this today trying to figure out why the client is not
>> working on the server. Fixing the permissions, fix my history reports
>> (though I will have 36 days of no reports), but still the client
>> information for the xymon server is not showing up, and neither are
>> the extra scripts.
>>
>> With the client information I mean CPU, Disk, memory, apt.
>>
>> It looks like if the client was not reporting to the server (which
>> should be localhost). I could not find how to check it out.
>>
>> I know how to configure BBWin since most of my network computers are
>> Windows, but don't know much about the linux client, and it has
always
>>      
>    
>> worked from the default install for me.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> *David Hay Currie*
>>
>> *IT Manager*
>>
>> *Leisure Fitness*
>>
>> *Leisure Fitness Logo*<http://www.leisurefitness.com/>
>>
>>      
>
>    


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