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list Phil Wild
Hi, I asked this yesterday but without response so I'll try a different way. How does one remove a server from the ghostlist? I expected that all I would need to do is add it to the bb-hosts file but it continues to show up (using bb 127.0.0.1 ghostlist) A restart seems to work but there must be a better answer... Many thanks Phil -- Tel: XXXX XXX XXX Fax: XXXX XXX XXX email: user-e365c1418192@xymon.invalid
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On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 9:53 AM, Phil Wild <user-e365c1418192@xymon.invalid> wrote:
Hi, I asked this yesterday but without response so I'll try a different way. How does one remove a server from the ghostlist? I expected that all I would need to do is add it to the bb-hosts file but it continues to show up (using bb 127.0.0.1 ghostlist) A restart seems to work but there must be a better answer... Many thanks Phil -- Tel: XXXX XXX XXX Fax: XXXX XXX XXX email: user-e365c1418192@xymon.invalid
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On Mon, May 19, 2008 09:53, Phil Wild wrote:
Hi, I asked this yesterday but without response so I'll try a different way. How does one remove a server from the ghostlist? I expected that all I would need to do is add it to the bb-hosts file but it continues to show up (using bb 127.0.0.1 ghostlist) A restart seems to work but there must be a better answer...
Sending a SIGHUP (e.g. kill -1) to the hobbitd process will cause it to re-read bb-hosts right away. But IIRC, it will do that periodically, so you could just wait.
list Phil Wild
I am writing a script at the backend that will set up a ticket to investigate the ghosts. I run the command and generate the list. When someone makes the change to update the bb-hosts file, the ghosts are still reported the next time the script is run. bb-hosts is automagically detected as having changed and so hobbitlaunch reloads the things it needs to reload (from my understanding) and I would have expected that the ghostlist would see this too but it does not appear so. It looks like I need to force a restart of hobbit before each execution of the script which I'm not that happy about. Cheers Phil 2008/5/19 Josh Luthman <user-4c45a83f15cb@xymon.invalid>:
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I use the Hobbit Admintools On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 9:53 AM, Phil Wild <user-e365c1418192@xymon.invalid> wrote:Hi, I asked this yesterday but without response so I'll try a different way. How does one remove a server from the ghostlist? I expected that all I would need to do is add it to the bb-hosts file but it continues to show up (using bb 127.0.0.1 ghostlist) A restart seems to work but there must be a better answer... Many thanks Phil -- Tel: XXXX XXX XXX Fax: XXXX XXX XXX email: user-e365c1418192@xymon.invalid-- Josh Luthman Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX XXXX Wayne St Suite XXXX Troy, OH XXXXX Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. --- Henry Spencer
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list Phil Wild
Perhaps there is something wrong with my install then, I notice changes to the bb-hosts file as they are picked up (i.e. without having to force the change with s restart or HUP) yet I have waited over 24 hours and the output from bb ghostlist is still reporting an entry as a ghost. A full restart of hobbit resolves the issue. Phil 2008/5/19 Hobbit User in Richmond <user-24d6f8323faa@xymon.invalid>:
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On Mon, May 19, 2008 09:53, Phil Wild wrote:Hi, I asked this yesterday but without response so I'll try a different way. How does one remove a server from the ghostlist? I expected that all I would need to do is add it to the bb-hosts file but it continues to show up (using bb 127.0.0.1 ghostlist) A restart seems to work but there must be a better answer...Sending a SIGHUP (e.g. kill -1) to the hobbitd process will cause it to re-read bb-hosts right away. But IIRC, it will do that periodically, so you could just wait.
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list Ralph Mitchell
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On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Phil Wild <user-e365c1418192@xymon.invalid> wrote:
Perhaps there is something wrong with my install then, I notice changes to the bb-hosts file as they are picked up (i.e. without having to force the change with s restart or HUP) yet I have waited over 24 hours and the output from bb ghostlist is still reporting an entry as a ghost. A full restart of hobbit resolves the issue.
I'm getting the same thing, though up to now it wasn't bothering me... :)
It has been at least 3 days since I last updated my bb-hosts file to remove
a couple of systems. I also did "bb localhost 'drop xxx'". There's no
information left in the data directory belonging to those systems, and yet
they still show up in the ghostlist.
The removed systems also show up in the Ghost Client report in the web
page. After 5 minutes, they disappear, then return some time later. Even
after they drop out of the Ghost Client report, they still show up in "bb
localhost ghostlist".
This is in a test system running the Jan 25 2008 snapshot of 4.3.0.
Ralph Mitchell
list Phil Wild
I am running 4.2 stable release with the all-in-one patch applied. Nice to know I'm not doing anything wrong... 2008/5/20 Ralph Mitchell <user-00a5e44c48c0@xymon.invalid>:
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On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Phil Wild <user-e365c1418192@xymon.invalid> wrote:Perhaps there is something wrong with my install then, I notice changes to the bb-hosts file as they are picked up (i.e. without having to force the change with s restart or HUP) yet I have waited over 24 hours and the output from bb ghostlist is still reporting an entry as a ghost. A full restart of hobbit resolves the issue.I'm getting the same thing, though up to now it wasn't bothering me... :) It has been at least 3 days since I last updated my bb-hosts file to remove a couple of systems. I also did "bb localhost 'drop xxx'". There's no information left in the data directory belonging to those systems, and yet they still show up in the ghostlist. The removed systems also show up in the Ghost Client report in the web page. After 5 minutes, they disappear, then return some time later. Even after they drop out of the Ghost Client report, they still show up in "bb localhost ghostlist". This is in a test system running the Jan 25 2008 snapshot of 4.3.0. Ralph Mitchell
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list Galen Johnson
It sounds like the clients are still reporting to the server. That's the only way I can think of that they would keep coming back. =G=
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From: Ralph Mitchell [mailto:user-00a5e44c48c0@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 12:57 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] ghostlist
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Phil Wild <user-e365c1418192@xymon.invalid<mailto:user-e365c1418192@xymon.invalid>> wrote:
Perhaps there is something wrong with my install then, I notice changes to the bb-hosts file as they are picked up (i.e. without having to force the change with s restart or HUP) yet I have waited over 24 hours and the output from bb ghostlist is still reporting an entry as a ghost. A full restart of hobbit resolves the issue.
I'm getting the same thing, though up to now it wasn't bothering me... :)
It has been at least 3 days since I last updated my bb-hosts file to remove a couple of systems. I also did "bb localhost 'drop xxx'". There's no information left in the data directory belonging to those systems, and yet they still show up in the ghostlist.
The removed systems also show up in the Ghost Client report in the web page. After 5 minutes, they disappear, then return some time later. Even after they drop out of the Ghost Client report, they still show up in "bb localhost ghostlist".
This is in a test system running the Jan 25 2008 snapshot of 4.3.0.<http://4.3.0.>; Ralph Mitchell
list Greg L Hubbard
I thought "ghosts" were clients that send in data, but their name is not a match in the bb-hosts file. If you decide to get rid of a client, you have to a) update bb-hosts to suspend polling, and b) update the client so either the agent does not run, or so that it sends its data elsewhere. GLH
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From: Ralph Mitchell [mailto:user-00a5e44c48c0@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 11:57 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] ghostlist
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Phil Wild <user-e365c1418192@xymon.invalid>
wrote:
Perhaps there is something wrong with my install then, I
notice changes to the bb-hosts file as they are picked up (i.e. without
having to force the change with s restart or HUP) yet I have waited over
24 hours and the output from bb ghostlist is still reporting an entry as
a ghost. A full restart of hobbit resolves the issue.
I'm getting the same thing, though up to now it wasn't bothering
me... :)
It has been at least 3 days since I last updated my bb-hosts
file to remove a couple of systems. I also did "bb localhost 'drop
xxx'". There's no information left in the data directory belonging to
those systems, and yet they still show up in the ghostlist.
The removed systems also show up in the Ghost Client report in
the web page. After 5 minutes, they disappear, then return some time
later. Even after they drop out of the Ghost Client report, they still
show up in "bb localhost ghostlist".
This is in a test system running the Jan 25 2008 snapshot of
4.3.0.
Ralph Mitchell
list Josh Luthman
I believe a "ghost" is where there is data/history for a host but it is not listed on bb-hosts. On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 1:44 PM, Hubbard, Greg L <user-d970b5e56ec9@xymon.invalid>
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I thought "ghosts" were clients that send in data, but their name is not a match in the bb-hosts file. If you decide to get rid of a client, you have to a) update bb-hosts to suspend polling, and b) update the client so either the agent does not run, or so that it sends its data elsewhere. GLH *From:* Ralph Mitchell [mailto:user-00a5e44c48c0@xymon.invalid] *Sent:* Monday, May 19, 2008 11:57 AM *To:* user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid *Subject:* Re: [hobbit] ghostlist On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 11:17 AM, Phil Wild <user-e365c1418192@xymon.invalid> wrote:Perhaps there is something wrong with my install then, I notice changes to the bb-hosts file as they are picked up (i.e. without having to force the change with s restart or HUP) yet I have waited over 24 hours and the output from bb ghostlist is still reporting an entry as a ghost. A full restart of hobbit resolves the issue.I'm getting the same thing, though up to now it wasn't bothering me... :) It has been at least 3 days since I last updated my bb-hosts file to remove a couple of systems. I also did "bb localhost 'drop xxx'". There's no information left in the data directory belonging to those systems, and yet they still show up in the ghostlist. The removed systems also show up in the Ghost Client report in the web page. After 5 minutes, they disappear, then return some time later. Even after they drop out of the Ghost Client report, they still show up in "bb localhost ghostlist". This is in a test system running the Jan 25 2008 snapshot of 4.3.0. Ralph Mitchell
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list Ralph Mitchell
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Josh Luthman <user-4c45a83f15cb@xymon.invalid>
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I believe a "ghost" is where there is data/history for a host but it is not listed on bb-hosts. On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 1:44 PM, Hubbard, Greg L <user-d970b5e56ec9@xymon.invalid> wrote:I thought "ghosts" were clients that send in data, but their name is not a match in the bb-hosts file. If you decide to get rid of a client, you have to a) update bb-hosts to suspend polling, and b) update the client so either the agent does not run, or so that it sends its data elsewhere.
In my case. I was fooling around with the bb-stocks.sh script from
deadcat.net, running it from hobbitlaunch.cfg on the server. It sends
reports where the hostname is the ticker symbol (e.g. IBM, MSFT, etc) and
the column name is "stock". I let it run for a while, then marked the entry
in hobbitlaunch as DISABLED and dropped the stock names.
This morning, while reading this email thread, I went back to the script and
inserted "exit" right at the top, so it shouldn't be possible for the script
to produce a report, even if it gets launched.
The ticker symbols do *not* show up in the hobbitdboard output. They *were*
in the data/hist/allevents file, but
trimhistory --cutoff=`date +%s --date="19 May 2008"` --drop
took care of that. I've confirmed via grep that the names do not appear in
any file in the Hobbit directory hierarchy.
I *do* still see the ticker symbols in "bb localhost ghostlist", but they
don't appear in the Ghost Clients web page.
Maybe I'm missing something obvious. Here's a quick test if you're
interested in replicating the problem:
server/bin/bb localhost "status server,domain,com.bogus green `date`"
server/bin/bb localhost hobbitdboard | grep server
server/bin/bb localhost ghostlist | grep server
server.domain.com should not ever have existed in your bb-hosts file. It
will show up in the Ghost Clients web page for 5 minutes. 45 minutes after
doing the above, it's still showing in "bb localhost ghostlist".
Ralph Mitchell
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On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Ralph Mitchell <user-00a5e44c48c0@xymon.invalid>
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On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Josh Luthman < user-4c45a83f15cb@xymon.invalid> wrote:I believe a "ghost" is where there is data/history for a host but it is not listed on bb-hosts. On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 1:44 PM, Hubbard, Greg L <user-d970b5e56ec9@xymon.invalid> wrote:I thought "ghosts" were clients that send in data, but their name is not a match in the bb-hosts file. If you decide to get rid of a client, you have to a) update bb-hosts to suspend polling, and b) update the client so either the agent does not run, or so that it sends its data elsewhere.In my case. I was fooling around with the bb-stocks.sh script from deadcat.net, running it from hobbitlaunch.cfg on the server. It sends reports where the hostname is the ticker symbol (e.g. IBM, MSFT, etc) and the column name is "stock". I let it run for a while, then marked the entry in hobbitlaunch as DISABLED and dropped the stock names. This morning, while reading this email thread, I went back to the script and inserted "exit" right at the top, so it shouldn't be possible for the script to produce a report, even if it gets launched. The ticker symbols do *not* show up in the hobbitdboard output. They *were* in the data/hist/allevents file, but trimhistory --cutoff=`date +%s --date="19 May 2008"` --drop took care of that. I've confirmed via grep that the names do not appear in any file in the Hobbit directory hierarchy. I *do* still see the ticker symbols in "bb localhost ghostlist", but they don't appear in the Ghost Clients web page. Maybe I'm missing something obvious. Here's a quick test if you're interested in replicating the problem: server/bin/bb localhost "status server,domain,com.bogus green `date`" server/bin/bb localhost hobbitdboard | grep server server/bin/bb localhost ghostlist | grep server server.domain.com should not ever have existed in your bb-hosts file. It will show up in the Ghost Clients web page for 5 minutes. 45 minutes after doing the above, it's still showing in "bb localhost ghostlist". Ralph Mitchell
Replying to myself with an update for any interested parties: "bb localhost
ghostlist" is still showing:
server.domain.com|127.0.0.1|1211218983
3 hours after sending that status report just one time, manually. The big
number after the IP address translates to the date/time the report was
sent, "Mon May 19 12:43:03 2008".
Maybe this is a bug in the ghost handling procedures??
Ralph Mitchell
list Phil Wild
Hi Henrik Sorry to ask this directly, hopefully you can help me. I have asked this of the group a couple of times but have not had a suitable answer back. I am trying to use the output received from hobbitd when issuing the bb ghostlist command. The command reports correctly, but after modifying the bb-hosts file, ghostlist continues to report ghosts. I need to do a full restart of hobbit to get hobbitd reporting correctly. I started digging through the source tonight but I have to admit that I just can't understand C well enough. hobbitd knows the bb-hosts file has been updated because the host appears on the webpage, but ghostlist still reports it incorrectly. Is a restart the only way to resolve this? Could I HUP a process to fix it?
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Could it be that the clients are reporting as a name different than the name you have in the bb-hosts file? If yes, then check out the CLIENT: directive for the bb-hosts file. I have had this happen to me a couple times.
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Phil Wild wrote:Hi Henrik Sorry to ask this directly, hopefully you can help me. I have asked this of the group a couple of times but have not had a suitable answer back. I am trying to use the output received from hobbitd when issuing the bb ghostlist command. The command reports correctly, but after modifying the bb-hosts file, ghostlist continues to report ghosts. I need to do a full restart of hobbit to get hobbitd reporting correctly. I started digging through the source tonight but I have to admit that I just can't understand C well enough. hobbitd knows the bb-hosts file has been updated because the host appears on the webpage, but ghostlist still reports it incorrectly. Is a restart the only way to resolve this? Could I HUP a process to fix it? Many thanks Phil
list Phil Wild
No, The name is the same. A full restart of hobbit resolves the issue until a new ghost comes along. Once that is added in, the same thing happens once again until another restart is performed. Phil 2008/5/24 Bill Arlofski <user-0b8af203a56e@xymon.invalid>:
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Could it be that the clients are reporting as a name different than the name you have in the bb-hosts file? If yes, then check out the CLIENT: directive for the bb-hosts file. I have had this happen to me a couple times. Phil Wild wrote:Hi Henrik Sorry to ask this directly, hopefully you can help me. I have asked this of the group a couple of times but have not had a suitable answer back. I am trying to use the output received from hobbitd when issuing the bb ghostlist command. The command reports correctly, but after modifying the bb-hosts file, ghostlist continues to report ghosts. I need to do a full restart of hobbit to get hobbitd reporting correctly. I started digging through the source tonight but I have to admit that I just can't understand C well enough. hobbitd knows the bb-hosts file has been updated because the host appears on the webpage, but ghostlist still reports it incorrectly. Is a restart the only way to resolve this? Could I HUP a process to fix it? Many thanks Phil
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On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 10:06:59PM +0800, Phil Wild wrote:
I am trying to use the output received from hobbitd when issuing the bb ghostlist command. The command reports correctly, but after modifying the bb-hosts file, ghostlist continues to report ghosts. I need to do a full restart of hobbit to get hobbitd reporting correctly.
hobbitd reloads the bb-hosts file every 10 minutes, or if you send a HUP signal to the hobbitd process. Hosts will remain on the ghostlist until no reports have been received with ghost hostname for 10 minutes. So if you have a ghost reporting at 12:00, and you modify the bb-hosts file at 12:01, then the host reports again at 12:05, the bb-hosts file is reloaded at 12:11, and the ghost entry expires at 12:15. So it may take up to 15 minutes before the ghostlist entry disappears.
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I started digging through the source tonight but I have to admit that I just can't understand C well enough. hobbitd knows the bb-hosts file has been updated because the host appears on the webpage, but ghostlist still reports it incorrectly.
Note: the fact that the host appears on the webpage does NOT mean hobbitd knows about it. The webpage is generated by another task, and until hobbitd learns about the new hostname, it will just show up with no status columns. Regards. Henrik
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On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 7:30 AM, Henrik Stoerner <user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid> wrote:
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 10:06:59PM +0800, Phil Wild wrote:I am trying to use the output received from hobbitd when issuing the bb ghostlist command. The command reports correctly, but after modifying the bb-hosts file, ghostlist continues to report ghosts. I need to do a full restart of hobbit to get hobbitd reporting correctly.hobbitd reloads the bb-hosts file every 10 minutes, or if you send a HUP signal to the hobbitd process. Hosts will remain on the ghostlist until no reports have been received with ghost hostname for 10 minutes. So if you have a ghost reporting at 12:00, and you modify the bb-hosts file at 12:01, then the host reports again at 12:05, the bb-hosts file is reloaded at 12:11, and the ghost entry expires at 12:15. So it may take up to 15 minutes before the ghostlist entry disappears.I started digging through the source tonight but I have to admit that I just can't understand C well enough. hobbitd knows the bb-hosts file has been updated because the host appears on the webpage, but ghostlist still reports it incorrectly.Note: the fact that the host appears on the webpage does NOT mean hobbitd knows about it. The webpage is generated by another task, and until hobbitd learns about the new hostname, it will just show up with no status columns.
I did this just one time:
server/bin/bb localhost "status server,domain,com.bogus green `date`"
server.domain.com has never have existed in my bb-hosts file. It showed up
in the Ghost Clients web page for 5 minutes. It also showed up in the
ghostlist generated via this command:
server/bin/bb localhost ghostlist
Several days later, the above command was still showing this:
server.domain.com|127.0.0.1|1211218983
This was with the Jan 25 2008 4.3.0 snapshot.
Ralph Mitchell
list Phil Wild
Hi Henrik/Ralph, On my system running 4.2 with all in one patch... ./server/bin/bb 10.1.50.4 ghostlist bar|10.1.50.4|1211944491 ho|10.1.50.4|1211944491 hum|10.1.50.4|1211944491 zulu.XXXX.com.au|10.1.50.4|1211944491 So all the above is good.... Just to clarify, hosts bar, ho, hum and zulu are all sending a message to hobbitd every five minutes. Only one test is being sent, this is a test titled alerts. There is no cpu, memory or any other test being sent. And just to confirm, grep zulu ./server/etc/bb-hosts returns nothing... I then add the following line to bb-hosts 0.0.0.0 zulu.XXXX.com.au grep zulu ./server/etc/bb-hosts now returns 0.0.0.0 zulu.XXXX.com.au I now wait >10 minutes (only because I am trying to multi-task other work)... The host appears on the bb.html page and I can see a yellow dot for the test that is being sent every five minutes to trigger it as a ghost... I can click on the dot and see the message, including an rrd graph of the data received. So far so good... I now run... ./server/bin/bb 10.1.50.4 hobbitdboard | grep zulu zulu.XXXX.com.au|trends|green||0|0|0|0|0||0| zulu.XXXX.com.au|info|green||0|0|0|0|0||0| zulu.XXXX.com.au|conn|green|OrdAstLe|1211945995|1211946296|1211948096|0|0| 10.1.50.4|-1|green <!-- [flags:OrdAstLe] --> Wed May 28 11:44:55 2008 conn ok zulu.XXXX.com.au|alerts|yellow||1211945994|1211946295|1211948095|0|0| 10.1.50.4|82688|yellow Wed May 28 11:44:55 WST 2008 So from the above, I would assume that it would now no longer be listed as a ghost... Just to be sure, I will wait another >15 minutes.... And then... ./server/bin/bb 10.1.50.4 ghostlist bar|10.1.50.4|1211946596 ho|10.1.50.4|1211946596 hum|10.1.50.4|1211946596 zulu.XXXX.com.au|10.1.50.4|1211945699 It is still there... I give it another 10 minutes and then I restart hobbit su - hobbit -c "/opt/hobbit/server/hobbit.sh restart" wait 10 minutes... And re-run ./server/bin/bb 10.1.50.4 ghostlist bar|10.1.50.4|1211947632 ho|10.1.50.4|1211947632 hum|10.1.50.4|1211947632 zulu has gone... This email is long enough, but if I now reverse the process and remove zulu from the bb-hosts file, zulu will never become a ghost again until after the next restart, even though hobbitdboard no longer shows it in its list. Can I assume this is a bug/feature? Cheers Phil 2008/5/28 Ralph Mitchell <user-00a5e44c48c0@xymon.invalid>:
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On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 7:30 AM, Henrik Stoerner <user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid> wrote:On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 10:06:59PM +0800, Phil Wild wrote:I am trying to use the output received from hobbitd when issuing the bb ghostlist command. The command reports correctly, but after modifying the bb-hosts file, ghostlist continues to report ghosts. I need to do a full restart of hobbit to get hobbitd reporting correctly.hobbitd reloads the bb-hosts file every 10 minutes, or if you send a HUP signal to the hobbitd process. Hosts will remain on the ghostlist until no reports have been received with ghost hostname for 10 minutes. So if you have a ghost reporting at 12:00, and you modify the bb-hosts file at 12:01, then the host reports again at 12:05, the bb-hosts file is reloaded at 12:11, and the ghost entry expires at 12:15. So it may take up to 15 minutes before the ghostlist entry disappears.I started digging through the source tonight but I have to admit that I just can't understand C well enough. hobbitd knows the bb-hosts file has been updated because the host appears on the webpage, but ghostlist still reports it incorrectly.Note: the fact that the host appears on the webpage does NOT mean hobbitd knows about it. The webpage is generated by another task, and until hobbitd learns about the new hostname, it will just show up with no status columns.I did this just one time: server/bin/bb localhost "status server,domain,com.bogus green `date`" server.domain.com has never have existed in my bb-hosts file. It showed up in the Ghost Clients web page for 5 minutes. It also showed up in the ghostlist generated via this command: server/bin/bb localhost ghostlist Several days later, the above command was still showing this: server.domain.com|127.0.0.1|1211218983 This was with the Jan 25 2008 4.3.0 snapshot. Ralph Mitchell
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