[hobbit] hobbit-clients configuration not taking

Josh Luthman josh at imaginenetworksllc.com
Wed Sep 9 21:19:43 CEST 2009


>Hmm..  Well, since you are pretty experienced you have probably checked the
obvious places.  I would check to make sure that the Xymon server knows
these hosts by these names, and not by a shorter version (without the domain
name).

As far as I know the only place to look is hobbit-clients.cfg.  In
hobbit-alerts.cfg this rule works: HOST=%.*\.imaginenetworksllc\.com

The URL has the FQDN, so I can only imagine the same is expected of
hobbit-clients.cfg:
http://myserverhere.com/hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?HOST=two.imaginenetworksllc.com&SERVICE=msgs

>And you know that the hobbit-clients.cfg bits are exclusive to Xymon and
will not work with Big Brother clients -- Big Brother does not know how to
send the necessary data to Xymon for interpretation.  You have to use Xymon
clients for this (which leaves you stuck with Windows machines unless the
BBWin client supports this now).

All other clients are hobbit-4.2.0 just like the server.  No patches, just
4.2.0 release.


Josh Luthman
Office: 937-552-2340
Direct: 937-552-2343
1100 Wayne St
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Troy, OH 45373

"When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however
improbable, must be the truth."
--- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Greg Hubbard <glh.forums at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hmm..  Well, since you are pretty experienced you have probably checked the
> obvious places.  I would check to make sure that the Xymon server knows
> these hosts by these names, and not by a shorter version (without the domain
> name).
>
> And you know that the hobbit-clients.cfg bits are exclusive to Xymon and
> will not work with Big Brother clients -- Big Brother does not know how to
> send the necessary data to Xymon for interpretation.  You have to use Xymon
> clients for this (which leaves you stuck with Windows machines unless the
> BBWin client supports this now).
>
> GLH
>
>
> On 9/9/09, Josh Luthman <josh at imaginenetworksllc.com> wrote:
>>
>> HOST=one.myhost.com
>>         LOAD    20 40
>>
>> HOST=two.myhost.com
>>         LOG /var/log/messages e100_watchdog COLOR=red
>>
>> HOST=three.myhost.com
>>         PROC    cron 1 -1 red
>>         PROC    apache2 1 -1 red
>>         PROC    ntpd  1 -1 red
>>
>> DEFAULT
>>         # These are the built-in defaults.
>>         UP      1h
>>         LOAD    5.0 10.0
>>         DISK    * 90 95
>>         MEMPHYS 100 101
>>         MEMSWAP 50 80
>>         MEMACT  90 97
>>
>> Neither of the first three HOST are taking effect.  I'm looking at the
>> bb.html page and seeing PROC (for three) stating "clear No process checks
>> defined" and similar with one and two.
>>
>> However on an bbc 1.9i btf (better then free) client it is pushing PROCs
>> to the server:
>>
>> #cat ~bbuser/bbc1.9i-btf/etc/bbwarnsetup.cfg:
>> ...
>> PROCS="bbrun"                           # (YELLOW) WARN IF NOT RUNNING
>> PAGEPROC="cron"                         # (RED) PAGE IF NOT RUNNING
>> export PROCS PAGEPROC
>> ...
>>
>> Josh Luthman
>> Office: 937-552-2340
>> Direct: 937-552-2343
>> 1100 Wayne St
>> Suite 1337
>> Troy, OH 45373
>>
>> "When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however
>> improbable, must be the truth."
>> --- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Disclaimer:  1) all opinions are my own, 2) I may be completely wrong, 3)
> my advice is worth at least as much as what you are paying for it, or your
> money cheerfully refunded.
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