Re: [hobbit] Can hobbit server comprehense COMBO keywords like BB server

["Haubrich,Myra [Ontario]" <Myra.Haubrich (at) ec.gc.ca>]

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On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 09:42:19AM -0400, Haubrich,Myra [Ontario] wrote:
> Thank you for your reply!
> 
> I've tried with 
> 
> # nc localhost 1984 < test.txt
> 
> Where test.txt contents:
> combo
> 
> status server1,xx,xx,xx,xx.cpu green Tue Jun 24 19:59:34 UTC 2008 up:
5
> days, 2 users, 119 procs, load=17
> 
> LOAD AVG on server1,xx,xx,xx,xx is 17
> 
> status server1,xx,xx,xx,xx.disk green Tue Jun 24 19:59:34 UTC 2008 -
> Disk partitions on server1,xx,xx,xx,xx  OK
> 
> /dev/cciss/c0d1p1    100790004   9644576  86025516  11% /home
> /dev/cciss/c0d0p3      5036316     44476   4736008   1% /tmp
> /dev/cciss/c0d0p1       101086     19502     76365  21% /boot
> /dev/cciss/c0d0p6     40670524   2182592  36421976   6% /
> /dev/cciss/c0d0p2     20161204    988424  18148640   6% /var

You have some new-line problems there. The layout of a combo
message should be

   combo<newline>
   status ........
   <newline>
   <newline>
   status ......

So your first blank line between the "combo" and the "status" should
not be there. Not sure if this is what causes the problem, though...
It could also be that your "test.txt" file has DOS/Windows style
line termination (carriage-return + newline), this would also
cause problems.

Hobbit might be a bit more finicky about this than BB, but it
was tested with the Big Brother "bb" client. And Hobbit does use
combo messages internally, e.g. for all of the network test
status messages (try running "bbcmd bbtest-net --no-update" and
see the messages that get sent to the Hobbit server).

The data you're sending looks pretty much like a standard Unix client
report. Any particular reason why you're not just using the normal
Hobbit client and the "bb" utility to send the data ?


Regards,
Henrik

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The client host (a RHEL server) is behind firewalls, and I tried with
hobbitfetch and msgcache, the normal hobbit way. I've checked with "lsof
-i:1984" to make sure that msgcache is running on the client and
hobbitfetch is running on hobbit server. It didn't work, most likely the
firewall blocked it. 

Below is the configurations that I learned from the forum. Any
suggestions?

> ===========
>
> CLIENT SIDE
>
> /etc/sysconfig/hobbit-cleint
> Hobbitserver="xx.xx.xx.xx 127.0.0.1" <-- hobbit server IP
>
> hobbitclient.cfg
>   BBDISP="127.0.0.1"  <-- Changed from Hobbit server IP to localhost
>
>
> clientlaunch.cfg
>   [msgcache]
>         # DISABLED  <-- Comment it
>         ENVFILE $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/etc/hobbitclient.cfg
>         CMD $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/bin/msgcache --no-daemon 
> --pidfile=$HOBBITCLIENTHOME/logs/msgcache.pid
>         LOGFILE $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/logs/msgcache.log
>
>  [client]
>          ENVFILE $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/etc/hobbitclient.cfg
>          CMD $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/bin/hobbitclient.sh --local  <-- Add 
> --local
>          LOGFILE $HOBBITCLIENTHOME/logs/hobbitclient.log
>          INTERVAL 5m
>
>
> SERVER SIDE
>
> hobbitlaunch.cfg
>   [hobbitfetch]
>           # DISABLED  <-- Comment it
>           ENVFILE
> /home/users/hobbit/application/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
>           CMD $BBHOME/bin/hobbitfetch --server=XX.XX.XX.XX --no-daemon

> --pidfile=$BBSERVERLOGS/hobbitfetch.pid  <-- replace the IP by your 
> Hobbit server one
>                 LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/hobbitfetch.log
>
> bb-hosts
> zz.zz.zz.zz  fqdn  # conn hobbitfetch pulldata
>
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Anyhow, a perl script on client host sends status data as combo message
to hobbit server via ssh. The combo message is now working with hobbit
server. Thank you so much for your help!!!   

MH.