Hobbit Architecture and monitoring Queries

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list Rakesh Nair · Sat, 18 Oct 2008 07:36:10 +0530 ·

Hi all,

I was trying to write scripts for tesing specific programs running. But I
dont understand what is the format that the data must me sent to the Server
manually.
I tried off with "$bin/bb --debug HOSTIP MSG"  command it says that the msg
is send but its not reflected in the hobbit monitoring page of the server.

Some other doubts related to Hobbit are :
1. What is the proper execution plan of hobbit monitoring the clients.

2. Is it that the client contact the server to give the data / is the client
collects the data after certain intervals and and when the Hobbit server on
refreshing contacts the client and retreives the data ?? (in short----How
does a Hobbit client POST the data to the Hobbit server ???)

3. What is the proper format in which Hobbit server recieves/updates the
status or data send by Client?? Nowhere I have seen a way that server uses
for receiving the info from the client.

4.What are hobbit-agents?

Please reply ASAP.

Thanks
Rakz

list Ulric Eriksson · Sat, 18 Oct 2008 09:28:13 +0200 (CEST) ·

▸ quoted from Rakesh Nair


On Sat, 18 Oct 2008, Rakesh Nair wrote:

Hi all,

I was trying to write scripts for tesing specific programs running. But I
dont understand what is the format that the data must me sent to the Server
manually.

The format of the messages is explained in the bb manpage.

Ulric

list Buchan Milne · Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:41:15 +0200 ·

▸ quoted from Rakesh Nair

On Saturday 18 October 2008 04:06:10 Rakesh Nair wrote:

Hi all,

I was trying to write scripts for tesing specific programs running.

If you just want to determine if specific processes are running, this is a 
built-in feature (if you have the hobbit client installed on the hosts you are 
interested in). See hobbit-clients.cfg

▸ quoted from Rakesh Nair

But I
dont understand what is the format that the data must me sent to the Server
manually.
I tried off with "$bin/bb --debug HOSTIP MSG"  command it says that the msg
is send but its not reflected in the hobbit monitoring page of the server.

Some other doubts related to Hobbit are :
1. What is the proper execution plan of hobbit monitoring the clients.

Depends on what aspects you are monitoring, and how you have set things up.

▸ quoted from Rakesh Nair

2. Is it that the client contact the server to give the data / is the
client collects the data after certain intervals and and when the Hobbit
server on refreshing contacts the client and retreives the data ??

By default, the clients will send data to the server at the intervals 
specified in the 'client' task in the clientlaunch.cfg file.

However, you can enable the msgcache task on the client, and configure the 
client to send the data to itself (getting to msgcache), and then hobbitfetch 
(which you need to enable on the server) will pick up the data (if you have 
the pulldata tag in bb-hosts for that host).

▸ quoted from Rakesh Nair

(in
short----How does a Hobbit client POST the data to the Hobbit server ???)

3. What is the proper format in which Hobbit server recieves/updates the
status or data send by Client?? Nowhere I have seen a way that server uses
for receiving the info from the client.

'man bb'.

4.What are hobbit-agents?

You mean the hobbit client?

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