[hobbit] Hobbit client doesn't report

[Josh Luthman]

I believe that is a PEBKAC. =)

On 12/31/07, Kevin Hanrahan <kevinmhanrahan at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>  Gentlemen,
>   Thanks VERY much for your input. I found the problem. It was a naming
> convention. The example I sent did not have the original entry in the
> bb-hosts file. When I originally installed hobbit, I selected FQDN, so all
> my hosts had the FQDN. It looked like this:
>
> 10.10.0.6 castor.galaxy.prv # trace
>
> however, I do not see an option in the client package to make the host
> report as a FQDN.
>
> I changed the entry in the bb-hosts to use the short name while I was
> typing the entry to this forum. I looked later and found that
> it was now collecting data.
>
> Is this a bug or just an oversight on my part?
>
> Ideas?....and thanks for all your help.
>
> Kevin
>
> > Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 22:10:02 -0500
> > From: hobbit at epperson.homelinux.net
> > To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> > Subject: Re: [hobbit] Hobbit client doesn't report
> >
> > On Sun, December 30, 2007 21:43, Kevin Hanrahan wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello again all, To re-visit my question about the hobbit client, I
> have
> > > done the following:
> > >
> > > - downloaded and compiled the hobbit client on a SEPERATE machine from
> > > the hobbit server server = hercules client = castor - put an entry in
> > > bb-hosts on the server (hercules) for the client (castor) that looks
> like
> > > this: 10.10.0.6 castor # trace
> > >
> > > - configured hobbitclient.cfg on the client to look like this:
> > > BBDISP="10.10.0.13" # IP address of the Hobbit server
> > >
> > > - started the hobbit client on the client machine (castor)
> > >
> > > I get NO client data. All I get is the tests that are originated from
> the
> > > server (conn,info,trends)
> > >
> > >
> > > Any ideas?
> > >
> >
> > Anything in Reports-->Ghost Systems? If the client's notion of the name
> > to report under doesn't match bb-hosts exactly, you may find it there.
> If
> > so, fix bb-hosts and
> > bb 127.0.0.1 "rename <old-bb-hosts-hostname> <client-hostname>"
> >
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> >
> >
>
>


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