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client problems - connection refused

list Frank Flynn
Wed, 22 Aug 2007 16:27:00 -0700
Message-Id: <user-d3414867ee73@xymon.invalid>

On Aug 22, 2007, at 3:54 PM, Haertig, David F (Dave) wrote:
"I cannot telnet to the clients on port 1984 - so naturally the hobbit
server thinks bbd is dead.:

The clients don't listen on port 1984, the server does.  The clients
initiate connection to the server, not the other way around.
OK, my mistake - they are not doing it.  The Server shows all the  clients (except itself) are red under bbd.

So now I go to the client and login as the hobbit user and I can  telnet to the server on port 1984

and I can run bb:

hobbit at ap1:~/client/bin$ ./bb --debug 10.1.90.22 "query  ap1.lax1.boredat.com conn"
2007-08-22 11:19:00 Transport setup is:
2007-08-22 11:19:00 bbdportnumber = 1984
2007-08-22 11:19:00 bbdispproxyhost = NONE
2007-08-22 11:19:00 bbdispproxyport = 0
2007-08-22 11:19:00 Recipient listed as '10.1.90.22'
2007-08-22 11:19:00 Standard BB protocol on port 1984
2007-08-22 11:19:00 Will connect to address 10.1.90.22 port 1984
2007-08-22 11:19:00 Connect status is 0
2007-08-22 11:19:00 Sent 31 bytes
2007-08-22 11:19:00 Closing connection

So the client appears to be working (yes?)

Back on the server bbd is still red and if I click on it (the red  icon under bbd) I see the message:

Service bbd on ap1.lax1.boredat.com is not OK : Service unavailable  (Connection refused)

How can I debug this?

Frank
-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Flynn [mailto:user-32aefea160e6@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 4:20 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: [hobbit] client problems - connection refused

I'm doing a new installation of Hobbit.  I followed the directions  from
the web and got to "Congratulations, you now have a running Hobbit
server!" without problems.

Then I added a few clients - the Hobbit server seems to be working  fine
(immediately as they showed up in the web page http and conn went  green)
but I cannot seem to get the client installed and working  correctly.  I
tar-ed and copied the client directory to each client machine,  created a
hobbit user there and setup the ~hobbit/client/ directory.

I can launch the client:

runclient.sh start

and the client/logs/clientlaunch.log shows it started;  ps -ef shows
it's still running - but client/logs/hobbitclient.log is empty

I cannot telnet to the clients on port 1984 - so naturally the hobbit
server thinks bbd is dead.

Do I have to build the hobbit client on all the clients?  Or have I
missed something else?

Thanks,

Frank