Troubleshooting windows clients
list Daniel Elswit
Hello... now that I've got Hobbit running, I'm trying to get my Windows clients talking to it. Where does the data from the Windows client go when it comes into the server? I found an msg. file on the client that had all the correct info... I'm assuming that gets transferred by bbwin to the server. The client's cfg file is pointing to the server and I'm able to telnet to port 1984 on the server from the system running the client, so I'm suspecting something's up on the server side. The event log on the Win32 client shows that the various dlls have successfully loaded with no errors. Also nothing unusual appears in the logs on the server. What I get is just the connection, info, and trend - no CPU, ram, and other stats. I've modified the hobbit-clients.cfg file to include: HOST=%win.* #Windows hosts LOAD 80 90 # Load thresholds in % DISK C 50 80 # Hard drive (can be drive or share) MEMPHYS 90 100 MEMSWAP 90 95 MEMACT 90 97 PORT "LOCAL=%([.:]135)$" state=LISTENING TEXT=rpc PROC BBWin.exe 1 1 PROC svchost.exe 3 4 LOG %.* %.*error.* COLOR=yellow Thanks! --Dan
list Andy Farrior
If you look at the "hobbitd" status for your Hobbit server, you may find
a list of "Ghost reports".
If you do, then that could mean the clients are reporting hostnames that
Hobbit doesn't recognize.
If that's the case you can do one of two things:
1 - modify the registry setting on each client to match the hostname in
bb-hosts:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\BBWin]
"hostname"="%computername%.yourdomain.com"
2 - add the "CLIENT" tag to the end of your windows clients in
bb-hosts.
0.0.0.0 win-server.yourdomain.com # CLIENT:WIN-SERVER
Hope that helps.
Andy
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-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Elswit [mailto:user-8d00d2826ff5@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 9:22 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: [hobbit] Troubleshooting windows clients
Hello... now that I've got Hobbit running, I'm trying to get my Windows
clients talking to it. Where does the data from the Windows client go
when
it comes into the server? I found an msg. file on the client that had
all
the correct info... I'm assuming that gets transferred by bbwin to the
server. The client's cfg file is pointing to the server and I'm able to
telnet to port 1984 on the server from the system running the client, so
I'm
suspecting something's up on the server side. The event log on the
Win32
client shows that the various dlls have successfully loaded with no
errors.
Also nothing unusual appears in the logs on the server. What I get is
just
the connection, info, and trend - no CPU, ram, and other stats. I've
modified the hobbit-clients.cfg file to include:
HOST=%win.* #Windows hosts
LOAD 80 90 # Load thresholds in %
DISK C 50 80 # Hard drive (can be drive or share)
MEMPHYS 90 100
MEMSWAP 90 95
MEMACT 90 97
PORT "LOCAL=%([.:]135)$" state=LISTENING TEXT=rpc
PROC BBWin.exe 1 1
PROC svchost.exe 3 4
LOG %.* %.*error.* COLOR=yellow
Thanks!
--Dan
list Daniel Elswit
Thanks very much! This was my issue. It works now. --Dan
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-----Original Message-----
From: FARRIOR, Andy [mailto:user-ca324d8ab782@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2008 9:22 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: RE: [hobbit] Troubleshooting windows clients
If you look at the "hobbitd" status for your Hobbit server, you may find
a list of "Ghost reports".
If you do, then that could mean the clients are reporting hostnames that
Hobbit doesn't recognize.
If that's the case you can do one of two things:
1 - modify the registry setting on each client to match the hostname in
bb-hosts:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\BBWin]
"hostname"="%computername%.yourdomain.com"
2 - add the "CLIENT" tag to the end of your windows clients in
bb-hosts.
0.0.0.0 win-server.yourdomain.com # CLIENT:WIN-SERVER
Hope that helps.
Andy
-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Elswit [mailto:user-8d00d2826ff5@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 9:22 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: [hobbit] Troubleshooting windows clients
Hello... now that I've got Hobbit running, I'm trying to get my Windows
clients talking to it. Where does the data from the Windows client go
when
it comes into the server? I found an msg. file on the client that had
all
the correct info... I'm assuming that gets transferred by bbwin to the
server. The client's cfg file is pointing to the server and I'm able to
telnet to port 1984 on the server from the system running the client, so
I'm
suspecting something's up on the server side. The event log on the
Win32
client shows that the various dlls have successfully loaded with no
errors.
Also nothing unusual appears in the logs on the server. What I get is
just
the connection, info, and trend - no CPU, ram, and other stats. I've
modified the hobbit-clients.cfg file to include:
HOST=%win.* #Windows hosts
LOAD 80 90 # Load thresholds in %
DISK C 50 80 # Hard drive (can be drive or share)
MEMPHYS 90 100
MEMSWAP 90 95
MEMACT 90 97
PORT "LOCAL=%([.:]135)$" state=LISTENING TEXT=rpc
PROC BBWin.exe 1 1
PROC svchost.exe 3 4
LOG %.* %.*error.* COLOR=yellow
Thanks!
--Dan