RE: [hobbit] NooB questions - Status not Available

["McIlrath, Paul" <pmcilrath (at) marketron.com>]

Thanks for your response Thomas, 
 
unfortunately, I get it on every test, all the time, regardless of how many times I refresh. Im sure I have over looked something simple, I just dont know what it is yet!
 
Paul

	-----Original Message----- 
	From: Kern, Thomas [mailto:Thomas.Kern (at) hq.doe.gov] 
	Sent: Tue 9/25/2007 1:36 PM 
	To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk 
	Cc: 
	Subject: RE: [hobbit] NooB questions - Status not Available
	
	

	I get the blank 'Status Not Available' screen occasionally. I think it
	is just the hobbit server being busy or the network slow. When I
	'refresh' the page, I get a regular screen of data.
	
	/Thomas Kern
	/301-903-2211
	
	
	> -----Original Message-----
	> From: McIlrath, Paul [mailto:pmcilrath (at) marketron.com]
	> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 15:29
	> To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
	> Subject: [hobbit] NooB questions - Status not Available
	>
	> Hi,
	> 
	> Im a NooB to Hobbit. I have some Big Brother background which
	> is why I chose Hobbit for a new monitoring project at my company.
	> 
	> Im running CentOS 5, and I installed Apache 2, and
	> rrdtool-1.0.50-3.el5.rf.i386.rpm and Hobbit from
	> hobbit-4.1.2p1-1e14.re.i386.
	> 
	> The installations all went smoothly, no error messages, I put
	> some hosts in my bb-hosts file and fired up hobbitd.
	> 
	> The main page comes up, but when I click on any of the tests
	> icons, instead of getting the current status for that hosts
	> tests, I get a blank page with "Status not Available". 
	> However, if I click on "all Non-Green view" from the view
	> menus and look at the tests historically they are all there
	> and can be viewed normally. I checked the files for the hosts
	> in the hist, hislogs and logs directories and they are
	> growing and receiving data from the clients.  A ps -ef | grep
	> hobbitd seems to indicate that hobbitd is up and running.
	> 
	> I suspect its a permissions thing, but the structure of
	> Hobbit is different enough from BB Im not sure where to look.
	>   I am also seeing a couple of odd behaviors in reports that
	> makes me suspect that as well.  If I try to run a snapshot
	> report I get a blank page with "Cannot create output
	> directory", and the config report says it cannot contact the
	> Hobbit server.
	> 
	> If this is the wrong place for this post, please let me know
	> and I will go where I should. And if anyone has a little
	> patience to help a NooB along for awhile, I will promise to
	> do my time helping other NooBs along when the shoe is on the
	> other foor and support this forum.
	> 
	> Paul
	> 
	> pmcilrath (at) marketron.com
	>
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