[hobbit] monitoring of server itself

[Johan Booysen]

Thanks for the replies to my question.

That’s kinda weird because on my test lab server I most definitely did not install the client - I just double-checked, and it monitored itself quite happily...

Strange, but there you go.

-----Original Message-----
From: McDonald, Dan [mailto:Dan.McDonald at austinenergy.com] 
Sent: 11 August 2008 18:21
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] monitoring of server itself

On Mon, 2008-08-11 at 17:18 +0100, Johan Booysen wrote:
> I’ve now installed hobbit on the production server, and added the 
> clients.  Everything looks ok, but the server (defined by default as 
> localhost in bb-hosts) does not seem to monitor its own cpu, disk, 
> memory, ports and processes.
> 
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> 
> I’m pretty sure my test lab server monitored those by default.  Or is 
> there anything specific one should do on the server itself?  I may 
> have confused myself…
> 

You need to install (and start) the client on the server.

Check ghosts to see if it is trying to report a different name...

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> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
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Daniel J McDonald, CCIE #2495, CISSP #78281, CNX Austin Energy http://www.austinenergy.com