[hobbit] client-local.cfg and shared nfs homedirs

[Charles Jones]

Yet again I make the mistake of asking a question and *then* taking a 
hard look at it. From what I can tell the logging options are passed to 
the client and they go into ~/hobbit/client/tmp/logfetch.$HOSTNAME.cfg, 
so this should not cause any conflicts with my shared homedirs. Thanks 
Henrik for making Hobbit handle this so gracefully!

-Charles

Charles Jones wrote:
> Lets say I have a setup where I have 12 web servers:
> web1
> web2
> web3...
>
> And they all have a common homedir (SAN).
>
> Hobbit is very good about naming most of its logfiles etc with the 
> hostname in them, so thusfar I have not had a problem where a file or 
> setting for one host caused problems on another host.
>
> Now, what I am wondering is, if I use client-local.cfg on the hobbit 
> server, and define some logfile checks. These checks get propagated to 
> the clients. I know that I can specify hostnames in client-local.cfg, 
> but what happens to the data when it is propagated to the clients? If 
> it ends up in a generic named file on the client, then it will take 
> effect for ALL of my clients, which would be bad (assuming I want to 
> monitor different files on each of them).
>
> I guess I should just stop speculating and try it :) But I figured I 
> would ask to see if anyone else, or Henrik already knows how this works.
>
> -Charles