4.1.1 client hostname

I experienced the same problem on my network and added the following lines to the hobbitclient.cfg. This change can be propogated to all servers without customizing the config file.

MACHINE="$MACHINE.domain.com"
MACHINEDOTS="$MACHINE"

On 7/31/05, Henrik Stoerner <user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid> wrote:

On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 12:40:26PM +0200, Dirk Kastens wrote:

I just installed the new hobbit client on one of our
linux machines. It didn't send data to the hobbit
server until I changed its hostname to a fully
qualified name. The bb client has the option FQDN
that must be set to "true" if the server needs
a fully qualified name. What about the hobbit
client?

By default, the Hobbit client sends in reports using
the name provided by "uname -n". If this is not the
name that is used in the Hobbit servers' bb-hosts file,
then the Hobbit server will silently discard these data
as being from an "unknown" host.

So you have three possibilities:

1) Make the client report their status with the same
hostname that you use in the Hobbit servers' bb-hosts
file. Do this by adding a
MACHINEDOTS="my.host.name <http://my.host.name>";
entry in the clients' client/etc/hobbitclient.cfg file.

2) Same as 1), but done on the server side by modifying
the servers' bb-hosts file

3) Tell the server about the other hostname used by the
client, by adding a "CLIENT:clienthostname" tag to the
the hosts' entry in the servers' bb-hosts file.

I recommend 1) since that is the cleanest way of doing it.


Regards,
Henrik