[hobbit] hobbit-clients configuration not taking

Sat Sep 12 23:50:42 CEST 2009

yum -y update gcc gcc-c++ pcre-devel libpng-devel openssl-devel
openldap-devel fping rrdtool-devel ntp

Doing this fixed one.  Wasn't needed on three.

Both of these two clients are updating the full client data now.

Thank you very much for your help Greg!

Josh Luthman
Office: 937-552-2340
Direct: 937-552-2343
1100 Wayne St
Suite 1337
Troy, OH 45373

"When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however
improbable, must be the truth."
--- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Greg Hubbard <glh.forums at gmail.com> wrote:

> One other note -- can you recompile on each client system?  One wonders if
> there are some issues with dynamically linked libraries that might be
> causing something that compiles okay on machine A to blow up on machine B.
> This is something that the RPM, apt, yum, et al might prevent (if the
> packages are maintained well), but you might get hosed if you are like me
> and just scp a directory to a new client and then fire it up.
>
> GLH
>
>
> On 9/9/09, Josh Luthman <josh at imaginenetworksllc.com> wrote:
>>
>> Confirmed - PROCS works on the host in which the server is getting client
>> data from.
>>
>> I compiled on each client individually (see the last link of my last
>> post).  Exact same commands on each - literally copy/paste short of root
>> passwords.  I will recompile the two failing clients tonight to see what
>> happens.
>>
>> I wasn't aware of any client update.  Assuming this is not default, but
>> still, is there a man page detailing this?
>>
>> Josh Luthman
>> Office: 937-552-2340
>> Direct: 937-552-2343
>> 1100 Wayne St
>> Suite 1337
>> Troy, OH 45373
>>
>> "When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however
>> improbable, must be the truth."
>> --- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
>>
>>
>>  On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Greg Hubbard <glh.forums at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Good.  So if you tried PROC on "two" you should get something.  Something
>>> is deeply wrong on the other two hosts.  And Xymon likes to silently ignore
>>> errors.
>>>
>>> My **guess** is that something crummy has happened to the failing
>>> clients.  Since there is not much to them they should be easy enough to
>>> check out.  Might be a good education.
>>>
>>> Did you install from RPM, or compile your own copy of the client?  Are
>>> you able to reinstall the client piece from a known working source?  Are you
>>> using the "client update" piece where the client can fetch a tarball from
>>> the server and install it on its own?
>>>
>>> GLH
>>>
>>>
>>>  On 9/9/09, Josh Luthman <josh at imaginenetworksllc.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Suggesting that the bbc is capable of labeling tests.  The
>>>> hobbit-clients' data is staying clear.
>>>>
>>>> two.myhost.com does have data and it is [ps] and
>>>> [msgs:/var/log/messages]
>>>>
>>>> one.myhost.com and three.myhost.com has no data on the server.
>>>>
>>>> hobbitclient.log is full of:
>>>> 2009-09-09 14:38:44 Failed to get a message, terminating
>>>>
>>>> $bb server.fqdn.com ping #this command works
>>>> hobbit-4.2.0
>>>>
>>>> This is running a CentOS release 5.2 (Final) and CentOS release 5
>>>> (Final) respectively - "Red Hat Linux".
>>>>
>>>> One thread on the archives was able to fix it by installing the Debian
>>>> package.  Obviously I can't do that.  The strange part is I executed the
>>>> exact same commands across all three - the same ones I put up here
>>>>
>>>> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon/Administration_Guide/Compiling_on_CentOS
>>>>
>>>> Perhaps there is a package missing of some sort?  Is there a way to get
>>>> more detailed logs from the hobbitclient.log?
>>>>
>>>> Josh Luthman
>>>> Office: 937-552-2340
>>>> Direct: 937-552-2343
>>>> 1100 Wayne St
>>>> Suite 1337
>>>> Troy, OH 45373
>>>>
>>>> "When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however
>>>> improbable, must be the truth."
>>>> --- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>  On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Greg Hubbard <glh.forums at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Then what was this all about?  I guess I read it wrong.
>>>>>
>>>>> *"However on an bbc 1.9i btf (better then free) client it is pushing
>>>>> PROCs to the server:
>>>>>
>>>>> #cat ~bbuser/bbc1.9i-btf/etc/bbwarnsetup.cfg:
>>>>> ...
>>>>> PROCS="bbrun"                           # (YELLOW) WARN IF NOT RUNNING
>>>>> PAGEPROC="cron"                         # (RED) PAGE IF NOT RUNNING
>>>>> export PROCS PAGEPROC"
>>>>> *
>>>>> What you might want to do is track down the "raw data" being sent by
>>>>> these hosts to see if they contain a PROC secion.  I think you can get to it
>>>>> on each host through the
>>>>> http://<xymon-server>/hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?CLIENT=<client<http://%3cxymon-server%3e/hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?CLIENT=%3Cclient>>
>>>>> link.  On Solaris you would look for a [ps] header, then a list of
>>>>> processes.  This will show you that the data is getting pumped over.  (For
>>>>> Linux, etc. there might be something different).
>>>>>
>>>>> And, if your config fragment is correct, you would not expect any PROC
>>>>> checks for one or two, just for three, since you only defined them for three
>>>>> and there are no PROC checks in the DEFAULT section.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Disclaimer:  1) all opinions are my own, 2) I may be completely wrong, 3)
>>> my advice is worth at least as much as what you are paying for it, or your
>>> money cheerfully refunded.
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
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> money cheerfully refunded.
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