I sent a quick patch for this last year:
http://www.hobbitmon.com/hobbiton/2006/09/msg00574.html
You're right that the message isn't damaging, just annoying.
Jason
-----Original Message-----
From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Fri 4/27/2007 6:00 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Failed to get a message, terminating
On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 11:19:44AM +0200, user-2c49abd67bd9@xymon.invalid wrote:
I searched the archive, the same issue was already asked but no answer.
I m having the same logs in all my hobbitclient.logs. except the client
installed in the hobbit servers.
All remote clients same error message.
It sounds like you're running the Hobbit client in "local" mode - with
all of the client configuration kept on the client, instead of the
default where the configuration is on the server ?
Does your client status columns (cpu, disk, memory and so on) show up on
the Hobbit server ? If yes, then you can ignore this message.
Regards,
Henrik