[hobbit] trap column not showing up

Ralph Mitchell ralphmitchell at gmail.com
Fri Sep 14 18:26:26 CEST 2007


On 9/14/07, Joshua Krause <joshuakrause at triad.rr.com> wrote:
> I think i know why i may not be getting the trap column but needed
> some  insight on fixing it.  The trap is coming in with the hostname of:
>
> gsonc-spg-ups-1.eng.gbo.twcable.com
>
> But the hostname in the bb-hosts file is just:
>
> gsonc-spg-ups-1
>
> How could i go about parsing out the " .eng.gbo.twcable.com " from the
> hostname coming across in the trap?
>
> Thanks
> Josh
>
> On Sep 14, 2007, at 11:03 AM, Joshua Krause wrote:
>
> > I am having an issue with getting the trap column to show up on a
> > host.  I have everything setup the way the documentation said to.
> > And all of my log files are logging except for the trap.log, which
> > looks to be generated when the hobbitlaunch.cfg is ran.  Anyone have
> > anything that might be able to help me?

Try the "CLIENT:hostname" tag in the bb-hosts file:

    x.x.x.x   gsonc-spg-ups-1   # CLIENT:gsonc-spg-ups-1.eng.gbo.twcable.com

I think that's supposed to take care of this situation.

Ralph Mitchell



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