N00b starting to use Hobbit

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From: user-08b3b26d089f@xymon.invalid [mailto:user-08b3b26d089f@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 3:25 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: RE: [hobbit] N00b starting to use Hobbit

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De : Klomp, H. [mailto:user-b644cde19b47@xymon.invalid]
Envoyé : jeudi 20 septembre 2007 16:46
À : user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Objet : RE: [hobbit] N00b starting to use Hobbit

Hi,

The hobbit client isn't listening on any port, but sending
the information to the hobbit server.
On the hobbit server yoy should see the client data.
It's always good to look at your ghost clients in hobbit.
Sometimes the client sends the data with a different name than
the name you expect from the system.

Where I could I find the data on the server and the ghost client
name ?
Is there  a log or something very explicit?

On the web interface:
Reports --> Ghost Clients ( http://hobbitserver/hobbit-cgi/hobbit-ghosts.sh )

Regards,

H. Klomp
National Aerospace Laboratory NLR
Dedicated to innovation in aerospace


-----Original Message-----
From: Sigurður Guðbrandsson [mailto:user-f6f2e0690a1f@xymon.invalid]
Sent: donderdag 20 september 2007 15:48
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: RE: [hobbit] N00b starting to use Hobbit

Hi.

Did you configure the file /etc/default/hobbit-client to
include the correct IP address on the linux machines?

I think that the client doesn't listen if you've configured
the client to send the data instead of cache'ing it.
(unless you are using a server on each machine, in which case
you have to proxy it forward to the main server).

As for starting the client, I usually just run once
'/etc/init.d/hobbit-client start' to get it running.

The user "hobbit" should not have any extra special priv's
unless you've configured your system to be anal in security.

I use the hobbit-client package on my Linux clients and I
don't have any hobbitd processes running, only hobbitlaunch.

From that information I would gather that you have installed
a server. Thus to get the information about your system out
to the main hobbit, linux wise, you have to configure your
hobbitlaunch.cfg file to act as a proxy and forward all the
messages to the main hobbit monitor.

I don't know if this answers any of your questions, but this
is the answer to the question that I think you're asking.

With regards,


-----Original Message-----
From: user-08b3b26d089f@xymon.invalid [mailto:user-08b3b26d089f@xymon.invalid]
Sent: 20. september 2007 13:23
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: RE: [hobbit] N00b starting to use Hobbit

In fact, any of my hobbitd is running on the clients.
I started them with "client/runclient.sh start" but nothing
listen in port 1984.
/etc/services should be modified or something else ?
The user "hobbit" should have special priviledges ?

It happens to me on linux & with bbwin on Windows.

   Thanks by advance

-----Message d'origine-----
De : Sigurður Guðbrandsson [mailto:user-f6f2e0690a1f@xymon.invalid]

Envoyé :

mercredi 19 septembre 2007 14:52 À : user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid Objet :

RE:

[hobbit] N00b starting to use Hobbit

Hi.

 Did you configure the clients properly? That is, did you
configure
the correct IP address in the config files? Also, is there
a firewall
blocking this anywhere?

 As for the port, you can change that in hobbitserver.cfg
file. Just
remember to restart the hobbit server. And do tell the
clients to send
to that port.

With regards,

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