[hobbit] hobbit-clients configuration not taking

[Greg Hubbard]

Good.  So if you tried PROC on "two" you should get something.  Something is
deeply wrong on the other two hosts.  And Xymon likes to silently ignore
errors.

My **guess** is that something crummy has happened to the failing clients.
Since there is not much to them they should be easy enough to check out.
Might be a good education.

Did you install from RPM, or compile your own copy of the client?  Are you
able to reinstall the client piece from a known working source?  Are you
using the "client update" piece where the client can fetch a tarball from
the server and install it on its own?

GLH


On 9/9/09, Josh Luthman <josh at imaginenetworksllc.com> wrote:
>
> Suggesting that the bbc is capable of labeling tests.  The hobbit-clients'
> data is staying clear.
>
> two.myhost.com does have data and it is [ps] and [msgs:/var/log/messages]
>
> one.myhost.com and three.myhost.com has no data on the server.
>
> hobbitclient.log is full of:
> 2009-09-09 14:38:44 Failed to get a message, terminating
>
> $bb server.fqdn.com ping #this command works
> hobbit-4.2.0
>
> This is running a CentOS release 5.2 (Final) and CentOS release 5 (Final)
> respectively - "Red Hat Linux".
>
> One thread on the archives was able to fix it by installing the Debian
> package.  Obviously I can't do that.  The strange part is I executed the
> exact same commands across all three - the same ones I put up here
>
> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon/Administration_Guide/Compiling_on_CentOS
>
> Perhaps there is a package missing of some sort?  Is there a way to get
> more detailed logs from the hobbitclient.log?
>
> Josh Luthman
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> improbable, must be the truth."
> --- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
>
>
>  On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Greg Hubbard <glh.forums at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Then what was this all about?  I guess I read it wrong.
>>
>> *"However on an bbc 1.9i btf (better then free) client it is pushing
>> PROCs to the server:
>>
>> #cat ~bbuser/bbc1.9i-btf/etc/bbwarnsetup.cfg:
>> ...
>> PROCS="bbrun"                           # (YELLOW) WARN IF NOT RUNNING
>> PAGEPROC="cron"                         # (RED) PAGE IF NOT RUNNING
>> export PROCS PAGEPROC"
>> *
>> What you might want to do is track down the "raw data" being sent by these
>> hosts to see if they contain a PROC secion.  I think you can get to it on
>> each host through the
>> http://<xymon-server>/hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?CLIENT=<client<http://%3cxymon-server%3e/hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?CLIENT=%3Cclient>>
>> link.  On Solaris you would look for a [ps] header, then a list of
>> processes.  This will show you that the data is getting pumped over.  (For
>> Linux, etc. there might be something different).
>>
>> And, if your config fragment is correct, you would not expect any PROC
>> checks for one or two, just for three, since you only defined them for three
>> and there are no PROC checks in the DEFAULT section.
>>
>
>


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