[hobbit] all hosts disappeared

[dOCtoR MADneSs]

Ward, Martin a écrit :
> 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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Pfff, I'm an idiot :(
I had restarted Xymon, but a process was already listening port 1984 
(why xymon server didn't stop correctly is another issue), so I killed 
it, and all is ok now