[hobbit] Hobbit client

[Gary Baluha]

On Dec 26, 2007 12:29 PM, Frank M. Ramaekers <FRamaekers at ailife.com> wrote:

> This is my first attempt at installing a hobbit client on a Linux box,
> and I'm attempting to install it on the same box that the server is
> running on.


There really shouldn't be a need to run the client and server on the same
machine.

I have the client running, but the only items reported are bbgen,
> bbtest, conn, hobbitd, info and trends.   I want information on disk and
> CPU utilization.   Is this possible?


Yes.  See below for an example of my bb-hosts file for this purpose.

Is it possible to combine the client/server information?  Right now I'm
> getting two lnes:
>
> subpage Hobbit Hobbit Server
> 127.0.0.1   Hobbit.domain.com         # bbd ssh ftp
> http://DoyleBrunson.ailife.com/
> apache=http://thisserver.domain.com/server-status?auto
> TRENDS:*,apache:apache|apache1|apache2|apache3<http://DoyleBrunson.ailife.com/apache=http://thisserver.domain.com/server-status?autoTRENDS:*,apache:apache%7Capache1%7Capache2%7Capache3>
> 10.2.0.99   Hobbit                      #


1.2.3.4   hobbit          # BBDISPLAY BBPAGER BBNET bbd
http://hobbit.internal.net/ CLIENT:machine.alias.com NOCOLUMNS:files,ports

Where 1.2.3.4 is the public IP of the hobbit machine.  In my case, the
physical machine is called something different than the URL used to get to
the Hobbit display page, hence the CLIENT: option.  This shouldn't be
necessary in your case.

Also, I'm getting the following in msg.Hobbit.txt:
>
> [msgs:/var/log/messages]
> Cannot open logfile /var/log/messages : Permission denied
>
> [logfile:/var/log/messages]
> <SNIP>
>

You have to change the permissions on /var/log/messages so it is group
readable by whatever group Hobbit is running as.  I believe the default
linux perms are 644 root:root, so you'll need something like 644
root:hobbit.
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