[hobbit] Re: monitoring of server itself

[Johan Booysen]

I reckon I'm just going to do this on the virtual machine then, because it's important that I also monitor that server on which I was planning to install the halfling.

Thanks.


-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Diehl [mailto:tdiehl at rogueind.com] 
Sent: 12 August 2008 14:00
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: [hobbit] Re: monitoring of server itself

On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Johan Booysen wrote:

> Ok, so I created a brand new virtual machine (RHEL5) and installed only the hobbit rpm (not the hobbit-client rpm), and it monitors itself (with no configuration changes made at all).
>
> But this doesn't work on a physical server.

Normally it does work on any server. I only have the server installed here and it monitors itself (El4). Try rpm -V hobbit on the broken machine and see if there are missing files. Other than that I have no idea what would cause this problem.


>
> Any ideas why?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Johan Booysen [mailto:johan at matrix-data.co.uk]
> Sent: 12 August 2008 10:35
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: RE: [hobbit] monitoring of server itself
>
> I spoke too soon.  Damn.  So annoying.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Johan Booysen [mailto:johan at matrix-data.co.uk]
> Sent: 12 August 2008 10:24
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: RE: [hobbit] monitoring of server itself
>
> Heeheehee - I just copied over the following from the test lab server to the production server, and now the server is monitoring itself without hobbit-client being installed:
>
> /usr/lib/hobbit/server/etc
> /var/lib/hobbit
>
> I have no idea why, but will try to figure out exactly what I did.
>
> :)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Johan Booysen [mailto:johan at matrix-data.co.uk]
> Sent: 12 August 2008 09:17
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: RE: [hobbit] monitoring of server itself
>
> Oh dear - I'm installing hobbit using the rpms which I included in a local yum repository.
>
> When trying to install hobbit-client on the server, the result is:
>
> yum install hobbit-client
> Loading "security" plugin
> Setting up Install Process
> Parsing package install arguments
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Running transaction check
> ---> Package hobbit-client.i386 0:4.2.0-1 set to be updated
> --> Processing Conflict: hobbit conflicts hobbit-client
> --> Processing Conflict: hobbit-client conflicts hobbit
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> Error: hobbit conflicts with hobbit-client
> Error: hobbit-client conflicts with hobbit
>
> :(
>
> I guess I'm just going to have to take another real good look at the test lab server and see what I did to get it to monitor itself without having the client installed.  I knew I should have written it down as I went along!!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Johan Booysen [mailto:johan at matrix-data.co.uk]
> Sent: 12 August 2008 09:12
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: RE: [hobbit] monitoring of server itself
>
> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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...
>
>>
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
> --
> Daniel J McDonald, CCIE #2495, CISSP #78281, CNX Austin Energy http://www.austinenergy.com
>
>

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