[hobbit] xymon pluggin not working on server

[David Hay Currie]

I fixed it!!
I went to /etc/hobbit/client/etc/hobbitclient.cfg, but I don't have that
location, so I corrected the path to /etc/hobbit/hobbitclient.cfg, but I
did not see anything that would produce the problem, but then I realized
that it had an include at line 3 that is include
/etc/default/hobbit-client
So I opened the file and sure, it was there. The server is set to
127.0.0.1, but the client name had the computer name in the domain and
not actually the domain we use externally (our web site domain and
internal domain are different).
So, thanks a lot Rich. I got it working. Now I will start adding some
more checks on the server

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: Thursday, December 24, 2009 12:01 PM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] xymon pluggin not working on server

The host name of the server isn't going to matter to the client, the 
client is configured to talk to the server via its IP address.

Is the IP address of the server correct in the Linux client 
configuration file (in your case 
/etc/hobbit/client/etc/hobbitclient.cfg)?  Check the ghost report on the

server to see if any ghosts appear.  Do they match any of the Linux 
clients that we are discussing?

On 12/24/2009 10:04 AM, David Hay Currie wrote:
> 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)
>
>
>    

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