[hobbit] Problems since upgrading from bbgen to Hobbit

Frédéric Mangeant frederic.mangeant at steria.com
Tue Nov 29 15:39:30 CET 2005


Henrik Stoerner a écrit :
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 12:49:44PM +0100, Frédéric Mangeant wrote:
>   
>> - some of my devices (running the Quest BB client 3.01) do not update 
>> their statuses as frequently as they should
>> Even if I add a process to check, it doesn't appear in Hobbit.
>> Could it be a compatibility problem (my tests with a Quest BB client 
>> 3.01 running on XP SP2 ran fine).
>>     
>
> Hard to tell ... my best suggestion is to capture a network trace of the
> traffic between one of these clients and the Hobbit server. If a Linux
> box, you can use 
>    tcpdump -s 1500 -w capturefile tcp port 1984 and host CLIENTHOSTIP
> to grab only the traffic between Hobbit and this client.

Well, I have finally found the reason...

The Quest BB Client 3.01 provides a useful "Start Monitoring After" 
feature. When set to something different of 0, every change made with 
the bbntcfg.exe control panel isn't taken into account.
If I don't use the "Start Monitoring After" feature, everything is 
working fine.

Let's open a trouble ticket at Quest Software...

-- 

Frédéric Mangeant

Steria EDC Sophia-Antipolis






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