[hobbit] xymon pluggin not working on server

[Rich Smrcina]

Then the client files will be under /etc/hobbit.

Check the log files in /var/log/hobbit.  Use the tail command on the 
files to see if they are producing messages indicating that a file can 
not be updated.

You did not answer the question, is the process hobbitd_client running?

On 12/23/2009 05:36 PM, David Hay Currie wrote:
> :/usr/lib/hobbit/client$ ls -la
> total 16
> drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2009-11-19 13:05 .
> drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 2009-11-19 13:05 ..
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-11-19 13:05 bin
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   11 2009-11-19 13:05 etc ->  /etc/hobbit
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-12-23 15:21 ext
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   15 2009-11-19 13:05 logs ->  /var/log/hobbit
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   19 2009-11-19 13:05 tmp ->  /var/lib/hobbit/tmp
>
> Those are the access to the client folder, however I did not make
> changes to it, since I did not copy files from the original server. It
> is possible that the only other folder I copied was the etc/hobbit so I
> would not have to type the config from scratch again. All files in the
> etc are owned by root with access 644
>
> David Hay Currie
> IT Manager
> Leisure Fitness
> 231 Executive Dr. Suite 15
> Phone: 302-224-5018
> Fax: 302-224-5001 (atte: David Hay Currie)
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rich Smrcina [mailto:rsmrcina at wi.rr.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2009 6:16 PM
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: Re: [hobbit] xymon pluggin not working on server
>
> There may be more permissions to fix in the client directory structure.
> Check /var/lib/hobbit/client.
>
> Also, is the hobbitd_client process running?
>
> On 12/23/2009 03:51 PM, David Hay Currie wrote:
>    
>> I had a problem with xymon server (lost power while upgrading to
>> Ubuntu9.10) and I had to re-install from scratch the OS.
>>
>> That part was easy enough, but I tried to keep all the history data,
>> and I copied the folders into the new install.
>>
>> Today I realized that the folders have not been updated since I
>> rebuilt the server because of wrong permissions, so I changed the
>> owner to hobbit:hobbit as the other folders have, and the permission
>> to 755.
>>
>> In my Ubuntu install the files are located in
>>
>> /var/lib/hobbit
>>
>> The folders I did this are: hist, histlogs, hostdata, rrd.
>>
>> I discover this today trying to figure out why the client is not
>> working on the server. Fixing the permissions, fix my history reports
>> (though I will have 36 days of no reports), but still the client
>> information for the xymon server is not showing up, and neither are
>> the extra scripts.
>>
>> With the client information I mean CPU, Disk, memory, apt.
>>
>> It looks like if the client was not reporting to the server (which
>> should be localhost). I could not find how to check it out.
>>
>> I know how to configure BBWin since most of my network computers are
>> Windows, but don't know much about the linux client, and it has always
>>      
>    
>> worked from the default install for me.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> *David Hay Currie*
>>
>> *IT Manager*
>>
>> *Leisure Fitness*
>>
>> *Leisure Fitness Logo*<http://www.leisurefitness.com/>
>>
>>      
>
>    


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