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Hobbit client sending data but server seems to not get data.

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list Kenneth Langford · Thu, 20 Apr 2006 15:28:00 -0400 ·
All,

I am switching my clients over from using the big brother client to using the hobbit client.  I am having problems with 2 of my clients that are running Red Hat 9.  They seem to be sending data but the server is not collecting the data.  Other client systems are working. Any ideas of where I need to look?????


Below is from the hobbitclient.log were I turned on debugging for an external program that is working on my other clients.
 
2006-04-20 14:42:51 Transport setup is:
2006-04-20 14:42:51 bbdportnumber = 1984
2006-04-20 14:42:51 bbdispproxyhost = NONE
2006-04-20 14:42:51 bbdispproxyport = 0
2006-04-20 14:42:51 Recipient listed as 'xxx.xxx.14.84'
2006-04-20 14:42:51 Standard BB protocol on port 1984
2006-04-20 14:42:51 Will connect to address xxx.xxx.14.84 port 1984
2006-04-20 14:42:51 Connect status is 0
2006-04-20 14:42:51 Sent 407 bytes
2006-04-20 14:42:51 Closing connection
list Larry Barber · Thu, 20 Apr 2006 14:58:45 -0500 ·
This is usually caused by the client sending a different name than what the
server is expecting. The Hobbit client uses the client name as reported by
uname. You can use the CLIENT directive in the bb-hosts file to patch things
up.

Thanks,
Larry Barber
quoted from Kenneth Langford

On 4/20/06, Langford, Kenneth <user-e8981d70691e@xymon.invalid> wrote:
All,

I am switching my clients over from using the big brother client to using
the hobbit client.  I am having problems with 2 of my clients that are
running Red Hat 9.  They seem to be sending data but the server is not
collecting the data.  Other client systems are working. Any ideas of where I
need to look?????


Below is from the hobbitclient.log were I turned on debugging for an
external program that is working on my other clients.

2006-04-20 14:42:51 Transport setup is:
2006-04-20 14:42:51 bbdportnumber = 1984
2006-04-20 14:42:51 bbdispproxyhost = NONE
2006-04-20 14:42:51 bbdispproxyport = 0
2006-04-20 14:42:51 Recipient listed as 'xxx.xxx.14.84'
2006-04-20 14:42:51 Standard BB protocol on port 1984
2006-04-20 14:42:51 Will connect to address xxx.xxx.14.84 port 1984
2006-04-20 14:42:51 Connect status is 0
2006-04-20 14:42:51 Sent 407 bytes
2006-04-20 14:42:51 Closing connection

list Henrik Størner · Thu, 20 Apr 2006 22:01:36 +0200 ·
quoted from Larry Barber
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 03:28:00PM -0400, Langford, Kenneth wrote:
I am switching my clients over from using the big brother client to using the hobbit client.  I am having problems with 2 of my clients that are running Red Hat 9.  They seem to be sending data but the server is not collecting the data.  Other client systems are working. Any ideas of where I need to look?????
Most common cause for this is that the clients are reporting data with a
hostname which is different than what you have in the bb-hosts file.
Typically, one side has the fully-qualified hostname, and the other
only has the raw hostname (without domain).

The client uses the "uname -n" command to determine what name it uses to
report data. Check if this matches the name you have in bb-hosts. If it
doesn't, you can either start the client with the
"--hostname=my.host.name" option, or you can put a CLIENT:clienthostname
tag on the host definition in the bb-hosts file.


Henrik
list Kenneth Langford · Thu, 20 Apr 2006 16:17:04 -0400 ·
Thank you!!!!  That is what was wrong!!!  I had been pulling out what
little hair that I have left out for the last eight hours trying to
figure out what I had done wrong.  8-)  

Thanks again!!!

Ken,

-----Original Message-----
From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 4:02 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Hobbit client sending data but server seems to not
get data.
quoted from Henrik Størner

On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 03:28:00PM -0400, Langford, Kenneth wrote:
I am switching my clients over from using the big brother client to
using the hobbit client.  I am having problems with 2 of my clients that
are running Red Hat 9.  They seem to be sending data but the server is
not collecting the data.  Other client systems are working. Any ideas of
where I need to look?????
Most common cause for this is that the clients are reporting data with a
hostname which is different than what you have in the bb-hosts file.
Typically, one side has the fully-qualified hostname, and the other
only has the raw hostname (without domain).

The client uses the "uname -n" command to determine what name it uses to
report data. Check if this matches the name you have in bb-hosts. If it
doesn't, you can either start the client with the
"--hostname=my.host.name" option, or you can put a CLIENT:clienthostname
tag on the host definition in the bb-hosts file.


Henrik