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Hobbit client doesn't report

list Josh Luthman
Mon, 31 Dec 2007 00:54:01 -0500
Message-Id: <user-7893c48e943d@xymon.invalid>

I believe that is a PEBKAC. =)

On 12/31/07, Kevin Hanrahan <user-80c5d6fed79a@xymon.invalid> wrote:
 Gentlemen,
  Thanks VERY much for your input. I found the problem. It was a naming
convention. The example I sent did not have the original entry in the
bb-hosts file. When I originally installed hobbit, I selected FQDN, so all
my hosts had the FQDN. It looked like this:

10.10.0.6 castor.galaxy.prv # trace

however, I do not see an option in the client package to make the host
report as a FQDN.

I changed the entry in the bb-hosts to use the short name while I was
typing the entry to this forum. I looked later and found that
it was now collecting data.

Is this a bug or just an oversight on my part?

Ideas?....and thanks for all your help.

Kevin
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 22:10:02 -0500
From: user-24d6f8323faa@xymon.invalid
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Hobbit client doesn't report

On Sun, December 30, 2007 21:43, Kevin Hanrahan wrote:
Hello again all, To re-visit my question about the hobbit client, I
have
done the following:

- downloaded and compiled the hobbit client on a SEPERATE machine from
the hobbit server server = hercules client = castor - put an entry in
bb-hosts on the server (hercules) for the client (castor) that looks
like
this: 10.10.0.6 castor # trace

- configured hobbitclient.cfg on the client to look like this:
BBDISP="10.10.0.13" # IP address of the Hobbit server

- started the hobbit client on the client machine (castor)

I get NO client data. All I get is the tests that are originated from
the
server (conn,info,trends)


Any ideas?
Anything in Reports-->Ghost Systems? If the client's notion of the name
to report under doesn't match bb-hosts exactly, you may find it there.
If
so, fix bb-hosts and
bb 127.0.0.1 "rename <old-bb-hosts-hostname> <client-hostname>"

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