[xymon] Repeat: Client test problems on Xymon server 4.2.3

[Ryan Novosielski]

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Sorry that wasn't clearer. I was/am trying to invoke the client as part
of the server, so it is in hobbitlaunch.cfg -- the mention of "copying"
was about having copied it to this e-mail for people to look at.

Henrik appears to have proposed the solution. I shall report if it works.

On 1/14/2011 3:59 AM, Chris.Morris at rwe.com wrote:
> Perhaps the salient point here is "That file exists, as I copied the
> above [hobbitclient] section out of t."
> 
> To where? Where are you trying to invoke the client from? 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ryan Novosielski [mailto:novosirj at umdnj.edu] 
> Sent: 13 January 2011 21:10
> To: xymon at xymon.com
> Subject: [xymon] Repeat: Client test problems on Xymon server 4.2.3
> 
> I had posted a message on this before and never really got anywhere with
> it. I just re-read all of the replies from last time and none of them
> really gave me anything to go on (they say look at logs, but none end up
> being created).
> 
> First off, here is the section that starts the Xymon client from within
> the Xymon server's hobbitlaunch.cfg:
> 
> # "hobbitclient" runs the Xymon client. The client is installed
> automatically # when you install a Xymon server (presumably, you do want
> to monitor the # Xymon server ?), but there's no need to have two
> hobbitlaunch instances # running at the same time. So we'll just run it
> from here.
> # Note: If you are using another client package, you should disable this
> one.
> 
> [hobbitclient]
>         ENVFILE /opt/xymon-4.2.3/client/etc/hobbitclient.cfg
>         NEEDS hobbitd
>         CMD /opt/xymon-4.2.3/client/bin/hobbitclient.sh
>         LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/hobbitclient.log
>         INTERVAL 5m
> 
> I checked to see where this LOGFILE is supposed to be going:
> BBSERVERLOGS="/opt/xymon-4.2.3/log"
> 
> So I looked in there:
> 
>> ls -la /opt/xymon-4.2.3/log/
> total 3228
> drwxr-xr-x   2 xymon    daemon       512 Jan 13 15:48 .
> drwxr-xr-x   9 root     root         512 Sep 16  2009 ..
> -rw-r--r--   1 xymon    daemon   1550037 Dec 23 15:47 bb-network.log
> -rw-r--r--   1 xymon    daemon     74080 Jul 26 16:39 bb-retest.log
> -rw-r--r--   1 xymon    daemon      9314 Jan 13 15:48 hobbitlaunch.log
> -rw-r--r--   1 xymon    daemon         5 Jan 13 15:48 hobbitlaunch.pid
> 
> No such file. So I checked the hobbitlaunch.log sitting here:
> 
> 2011-01-13 15:48:06 hobbitlaunch starting
> 2011-01-13 15:48:06 Loading tasklist configuration from
> /opt/xymon-4.2.3/server/etc/hobbitlaunch.cfg
> 
> That file exists, as I copied the above [hobbitclient] section out of
> t.The last thing I can think of is that maybe $BBSERVERLOGS is not
> defined in the context in which it is needed. Beyond that, I'm totally
> out of ideas. It appears as if this section is completely ignored. On
> both of my machines, if I don't start the client (by changing to the
> client directory and doing ./runclient.sh start), it doesn't get
> started.
> 
> Any clues?
> 

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