Difficulty with CPU/disk/procs columns 🔗 link

Hi there,

First of all, let me say - Hobbit is great!  I set aside some hours
yesterday to get things set up, and it's working really well.

Here's my setup:

Hobbit version 4.1.2p1

BBDISPLAY/BBNET/BBPAGER: Mac OS X 10.3.9 machine
    Hostname: Gregory-Larkins-Computer.local

Client: RedHat 9 (2.4.20-31.9.progeny.8 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux)
    Hostname: patches

The one problem I'm having is that I can't get the CPU/disk/procs columns to
display for the client I'm monitoring.  I double- and triple-checked by
bb-hosts, hobbit-clients.cfg, firewall, etc.  So far, everything looks good,
but there must be a problem somewhere. I've followed the advice here
(http://hobbitmon.sourceforge.net/docs/hobbit-tips.html#noclient), but I
haven't fixed the problem yet.

Here are the relevant parts of my config files:

**** **** bb-hosts **** ****
192.168.1.240 Gregory-Larkins-Computer.local # BBDISPLAY BBPAGER BBNET bbd
http://localhost/ ssh smtp ftp

204.8.45.68 www.sourcehosting.net # CLIENTNAME:patches
http://www.sourcehosting.net/
**** **** ******** **** ****

**** **** hobbit-clients.cfg **** ****
HOST=Gregory-Larkins-Computer.local
        PROC    named 1 1
        PROC    /usr/local/sbin/dyndnsd 1 1
        PROC    ntpd 1 1
 
HOST=patches
        LOAD    3.0 5.0

DEFAULT
        # These are the built-in defaults.
        UP      1h
        LOAD    5.0 10.0
        DISK    * 90 95
        MEMPHYS 100 101
        MEMSWAP 50 80
        MEMACT  90 97
**** **** ****************** **** ****

I've checked that messages are getting through the firewall around the
BBDISPLAY machine by running strace on the client machine.  I also checked
the msg.txt file on the client to make sure that the client name is correct:

*** *** *** ***
[hobbit at patches tmp]$ head -5 msg.txt 
client patches.linux
[date]
Thu Feb 16 14:26:26 EST 2006
[uname]
Linux patches 2.4.20-31.9.progeny.8 #1 Thu Jun 9 22:44:19 EDT 2005 i686 i686
i386 GNU/Linux
*** *** *** ***

The client name looks OK to me, and the messages are getting through the
firewall as far as I know.

I ran ktrace on the Mac OS X machine to make sure that the client messages
are received, and it looks like they are, but what file should the msg.txt
data be written to?  I've looked in the data subdirectory, but haven't found
it yet.  I would guess that's related to my problem.

What other things should I do to troubleshoot this problem?

Thanks very much for a great tool,
Greg

SourceHosting.net, LLC
Ready. Set. Code.
http://www.sourcehosting.net/

On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 02:37:27PM -0500, Greg Larkin wrote:

Thanks :-)

Try "CLIENT:patches" instead of CLIENTNAME. This is probably just one of
those easy-to-make mistakes, but if in doubt I'd recommend
double-checking your syntax in the config-files against the docs in
the bb-hosts man page. Especially for bb-hosts, because you can put
anything in there and Hobbit will just ignore it silently (this is 
on purpose, to allow for custom tests being configured through
bb-hosts).

No, the client messages aren't written anywhere - Hobbit keeps all of 
the changing status information in memory. The only place on disk you'll
find some remnant of the information is in the
~hobbit/data/tmp/hobbitd.chk file; it is updated every 5 minutes and
contains a snapshot of what hobbitd currently has in memory. It is
used when Hobbit restarts, to provide an immediate full status until
all of the statuses have been updated.


Regards,
Henrik

Hi Henrik,

I was afraid of a fix like that - sorry for such a newbie problem!

Thanks very much,
Greg

-----Original Message-----
From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 3:34 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Difficulty with CPU/disk/procs columns

On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 02:37:27PM -0500, Greg Larkin wrote:

Thanks :-)

Try "CLIENT:patches" instead of CLIENTNAME. This is probably just one of
those easy-to-make mistakes, but if in doubt I'd recommend
double-checking your syntax in the config-files against the docs in
the bb-hosts man page. Especially for bb-hosts, because you can put
anything in there and Hobbit will just ignore it silently (this is 
on purpose, to allow for custom tests being configured through
bb-hosts).

No, the client messages aren't written anywhere - Hobbit keeps all of 
the changing status information in memory. The only place on disk you'll
find some remnant of the information is in the
~hobbit/data/tmp/hobbitd.chk file; it is updated every 5 minutes and
contains a snapshot of what hobbitd currently has in memory. It is
used when Hobbit restarts, to provide an immediate full status until
all of the statuses have been updated.


Regards,
Henrik