[hobbit] all hosts disappeared

[Ward, Martin]

I have never tried renaming a host so am unsure what you may have done,
but I can give you some things to look at.

My Xymon server logs are stored in /var/log/hobbit/* and this is
configured in the hobbitserver.cfg

BBSERVERLOGS="/var/log/hobbit"

Since you have restarted Xymon since your last "bb" command you can see
which server Xymon thinks it is monitoring by looking in the bb-hosts
file. Search for the old and new host names. This will tell you which
name is actually being used.

You can then look at which files are in use by searching through the
history and data directories ($BBVAR/data, $BBVAR/hist and
$BBVAR/histlogs). Search for directories and files starting with the old
and new server names.

This will give you information from which you and/or others may be able
to make more informed suggestions that might help you.

Good luck! I hope you find your server again.

|\/|artin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dOCtoR MADneSs [mailto:doctor at makelofine.org] 
> Sent: 05 March 2009 09:30
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: [hobbit] all hosts disappeared
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I tried to rename a host, according to it's new name : 
> ~xymon/client/bin/bb 127.0.0.1 "rename OLD NEW" then after a 
> refresh on xymon homepage, I can't see any of my host. I 
> tried to restart xymon server, to undo my change (rename NEW 
> OLD), but 
> nothing changed. when I try to access the status of a 
> unchanged host : 
> https://BBDISP/xymon-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?>
HOST=ANOTHER_HOST&SERVICE=conn
> 
> I get the following message :
> Status not available
> 
> My filesystems are OK, and I can't see any error, in fact I 
> know where 
> to read xymon client logs, but not server logs...
> 
> Thanks for your help, I'm scared :-(
> 
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