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

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

ON the note, the problem using ssh to get data from client side is that,
server will not have any rrd data for graphs, right?

> _____________________________________________ 
> From: 	Haubrich,Myra [Ontario]  
> Sent:	June 26, 2008 4:49 PM
> To:	'hobbit (at) hswn.dk'
> Subject:	Re: [hobbit] Can hobbit server comprehense COMBO
> keywords like BB server
> 
> =========
> 
> 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
> 
>  ======
> 
> 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
> >
> > ==========
> 
> 
> 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.
> 
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