[hobbit] NooB questions - Status not Available

[Kern, Thomas]

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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