[hobbit] Adding a New Column to my hobbit server

[Sanu Mathew]

Cool Martin.
Cheers..

ur third step helped me in fixing it

Thanks
Sanu

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 2:02 AM, Martin Flemming <martin.flemming at desy.de>wrote:

>
> Hi, Sanu !
>
>  1. Is there a way i can debug to find what went wrong?
>>
>
> - check the logfile of your client-script ( shell or perl ?)
> -  test the script with
>
> ~hobbit/bin/bbcmd  sh -x ext/test.sh
>
> or ~hobbit/bin/bbcmd perl -d ext/test.sh
>
>
> 2. Is there a way to know if the client is able to send the data to the
>> hobbit server?
>>
>
> on the client:
>
> telnet hobbitserver 1984
>
> on the server: tcpdump -i eth0 host hobbit-client-ip
>
>
> 3. If the client is able to send the data to the hobbit server, why is it
>> not displaying the new column.
>>
>
>
> check on the server what he get from the client
>
> /usr/lib/hobbit/server/bin/bbcmd hobbitd_channel --debug --channel=status
> hobbitd_capture --hosts=hobbit-client-name/ip
>
>
> cheers,
>        martin
>
>
>
> On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, Sanu Mathew wrote:
>
> All,
>>
>> I have followed the method to add a new column from these links.
>>
>>
>> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Hobbit/Other_Docs/HOWTO/Custom_Monitoring_Scripts_for_Hobbit
>>
>>
>> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Hobbit/HOWTO/Custom_Monitoring_Scripts_for_Hobbit#Let.27s_start_coding
>>
>> http://www.hobbitmon.com/hobbit/help/hobbit-tips.html#scripts
>>
>> However, even after doing the above steps i do not get the new column.
>>
>> 1. Is there a way i can debug to find what went wrong?
>> 2. Is there a way to know if the client is able to send the data to the
>> hobbit server?
>> 3. If the client is able to send the data to the hobbit server, why is it
>> not displaying the new column.
>>
>> My client side script is running every 5 mins from $BBHOME/ext.
>>
>> Please assist and let me know if there is any more information required.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Sanu
>>
>>
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