New to Hobbit --- file monitoring

Did you install this from scratch, or use someone's package to install?
It is surprising that you have both directories (unless one is a symlink
for the other).
 
I use Solaris for the most part, so I had to build my own configuration.
I don't like to scatter things throughout the file system, so everything
"server" is under hobbit/server and everything "client" is under
hobbit/client.
 
I think there is a log file you can check, but I don't where it might be
on your system.  You might want to glance through the man pages for the
various daemons and see where they write their logs.
 
GLH


	From: Scott Mohnkern [mailto:user-1386a26b8c7d@xymon.invalid] 
	Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 2:02 PM
	To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
	Subject: Re: [hobbit] New to Hobbit --- file monitoring
	
	
	Okay, did a file search for hobbit-clients.cfg and found:
	
	/etc/hobbit/hobbit-clients.cfg
	
	Then looked in that file and found:
	
	mohnkern at Casa-Scott:/etc/hobbit$ grep FILE hobbit-clients.cfg
	#    FILE   : Changes the "files" status according to meta-data
for files. 
	#    FILE filename [color] [things to check] [TRACK]
	FILE "/etc/passwd" GREEN NOEXIST TRACK
	
	
	There's also a hobbit-clients.cfg in /usr/lib/hobbit/server/etc
The entry is there as well.
	
	However, at the hobbit screen, the file entry is still coming up
grey, and "no files being checked"
	
	Scott
	
	
	On 11/1/07, Stef Coene <user-dbffe946c0f4@xymon.invalid> wrote: 

		On Wednesday 31 October 2007, Scott Mohnkern wrote: 

Thanks, this was the critical piece of information I
was missing.  There
are client configuration files in /etc/hobbit that I
was editing, and
clearly they aren't the correct ones.  I need to edit
the ones in 
/usr/lib/hobbit/client.

Back to editing what I hope is the correct config
file.  I should be able
to put

FILE "/etc/passwd" GREEN NOEXIST TRACK
 in ~/usr/lib/hobbit/client/etc/hobbit- clients.cfg

and then start the hobbit client with

/usr/lib/hobbit/runclient.sh start

 and get reporting, yes?

		No,  this has to go in the hobbit-clients.cfg file on
the _server_.  The
		server receives the data from the client (including the
log file information)
		and needs to know what to do with it.
		Before the client sends file information to the server,
you need to configure
		client-local.cfg on the _server_. 
		So all configuration is done on the server.
		
		If the client and the server is the same machine, it can
be tricky to find the
		right config file.  If you install the hobbit server
from source, all files
		are placed in the same sub directory so it is clear to
know what's the server 
		and what's the client.
		
		
		Stef