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Thanks to all who responded to my last message...

New problem:

I've installed the Hobbit client on my Linux systems and it works wonderfully.  However I have a number of Solaris 2.X servers on x86 platforms.  The client compiles fine, and appears to be running, but none of the information is being reported to the server.  I checked the client names, and there aren't any exceptions listed in the hobbitd report, so I'm assuming they names are right.  Any idea how I can go about debugging this further?

THanks again,

Pat

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Patrick Healy                                                  U.S. District Court, NYWD
user-4dd876706f9f@xymon.invalid             304 U.S. Courthouse
Voice: XXX-XXX-XXXX                                      XX Court Street
FAX: XXX-XXX-XXXX                                        Buffalo, NY XXXXX

On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 02:28:00PM -0400, user-4dd876706f9f@xymon.invalid wrote:

You need   BBGHOSTS="2"
for the bogus hostnames to show up on the hobbitd report, but let's
assume for now that you have that.

Any idea how I can go about debugging this further?

I don't think I've ever tested the client with a Solaris/x86 box.
To begin with, go over to the client installation and see if there's
a "msg.txt" file in the ~hobbit/client/tmp/ directory. If there is,
please send me a copy of it. If not, then let's have a look at the
logfiles in the ~hobbit/client/logs/ directory.


Regards,
Henrik

I'll check the BBGHOSTS="2" option; in the meantime, here's my msg.txt file for one of the systems...

Thanks for responding so quickly!

Pat


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Patrick Healy                                                  U.S. District Court, NYWD
user-4dd876706f9f@xymon.invalid             304 U.S. Courthouse
Voice: XXX-XXX-XXXX                                      XX Court Street
FAX: XXX-XXX-XXXX                                        Buffalo, NY XXXXX

 user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid (Henrik Stoerner)
09/28/2005 02:34 PM
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On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 02:28:00PM -0400, user-4dd876706f9f@xymon.invalid wrote:

You need   BBGHOSTS="2"
for the bogus hostnames to show up on the hobbitd report, but let's
assume for now that you have that.

I don't think I've ever tested the client with a Solaris/x86 box.
To begin with, go over to the client installation and see if there's
a "msg.txt" file in the ~hobbit/client/tmp/ directory. If there is,
please send me a copy of it. If not, then let's have a look at the
logfiles in the ~hobbit/client/logs/ directory.


Regards,
Henrik

Hi,
	Some steps you can do/try


First
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	Considering the client is running, it should produce a file called "msg.txt" in dir "client/tmp", whos updated every 5m (default) who should contain all the data collected by the tools run by hobbit client module. This info (from msg.txt file) is/should later sent to hobbit server.


Later:
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On ~server/etc/hobbitlaunch.cfg  add "--debug" to client worker module.
[clientdata]
        ENVFILE /home/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
        NEEDS hobbitd
        CMD hobbitd_channel --channel=client --log=$BBSERVERLOGS/clientdata.log hobbitd_client --debug
	After a while (or to quick reload hobbitd) look at "clientdata.log" (normally at /var/log/hobbit/) to see what's showing up.

	
	And almost sugested (if posible) tcpdump the client<=> server connection to see if everything looks fine. Unless defaults are changed, it should be a connection on TCP/1984.

	Hope this help's.

	-wm

On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 14:28:00 -0400
user-4dd876706f9f@xymon.invalid wrote:

Thanks to all who responded to my lastmessage...

New problem:

I've installed the Hobbit client onmy Linux systems and it works wonderfully.  However I have a numberof Solaris 2.X servers on x86 platforms.  The client compiles fine,and appears to be running, but none of the information is being reportedto the server.  I checked the client names, and there aren't any exceptionslisted in the hobbitd report, so I'm assuming they names are right.  Anyidea how I can go about debugging this further?

Voice: XXX-XXX-XXXX                                     68Court Street
FAX: XXX-XXX-XXXX                                      Buffalo, NY XXXXX

On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 02:42:29PM -0400, user-4dd876706f9f@xymon.invalid wrote:

The msg.txt file you sent me works fine on my system, so I think you 
should check the client names. The hostname that your client reports
is "nywdei" - without any domain.


Regards,
Henrik

The BBGHOSTS was set to '1'; I reset it to 2 and the hobbitd reported the names it was seeing. I updated my bb-hosts, restarted the clients and voila! it worked!

Thanks to all!

Pat

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Patrick Healy                                                  U.S. District Court, NYWD
user-4dd876706f9f@xymon.invalid             304 U.S. Courthouse
Voice: XXX-XXX-XXXX                                      XX Court Street
FAX: XXX-XXX-XXXX                                        Buffalo, NY XXXXX


 user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid (Henrik Stoerner)

09/28/2005 03:02 PM

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On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 02:42:29PM -0400, user-4dd876706f9f@xymon.invalid wrote:

The msg.txt file you sent me works fine on my system, so I think you should check the client names. The hostname that your client reports
is "nywdei" - without any domain.


Regards,
Henrik