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Monitoring Non-routable Address Space

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list Bill Klinko · Thu, 26 Apr 2007 13:24:20 -0400 ·
Greetings,

I have hobbit up and monitoring correctly quite a number of systems. However, today I am trying to monitor a system in non-routable address space and it does absolutely nothing. The system name does not even come up in the list of systems to be monitored. The hobbit server is in the same address space and can ping the system I want to monitor. I am at a loss for what is happening.....

Thoughts.

Bill
list Galen Johnson · Thu, 26 Apr 2007 13:26:52 -0400 ·
Are you seeing anything in the ghost reports? 
quoted from Bill Klinko

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Klinko [mailto:user-5b27cdb59925@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 1:24 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: [hobbit] Monitoring Non-routable Address Space

Greetings,

I have hobbit up and monitoring correctly quite a number of systems. 
However, today I am trying to monitor a system in non-routable address space and it does absolutely nothing. The system name does not even come up in the list of systems to be monitored. The hobbit server is in the same address space and can ping the system I want to monitor. I am at a loss for what is happening.....

Thoughts.

Bill
list Greg L Hubbard · Thu, 26 Apr 2007 12:27:26 -0500 ·
Is it in the ghost list?  You might check the remote agent to make sure
it can find the Hobbit server. 
quoted from Bill Klinko

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Klinko [mailto:user-5b27cdb59925@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 12:24 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: [hobbit] Monitoring Non-routable Address Space

Greetings,

I have hobbit up and monitoring correctly quite a number of systems. 
However, today I am trying to monitor a system in non-routable address
space and it does absolutely nothing. The system name does not even come
up in the list of systems to be monitored. The hobbit server is in the
same address space and can ping the system I want to monitor. I am at a
loss for what is happening.....

Thoughts.

Bill
list Buchan Milne · Mon, 30 Apr 2007 12:27:21 +0200 ·
quoted from Bill Klinko
On Thursday, 26 April 2007, Bill Klinko wrote:
Greetings,

I have hobbit up and monitoring correctly quite a number of systems.
However, today I am trying to monitor a system in non-routable address
space and it does absolutely nothing. The system name does not even come
up in the list of systems to be monitored. The hobbit server is in the
same address space and can ping the system I want to monitor. I am at a
loss for what is happening.....
More than 90% of our systems are in private address space, and I have seen no particular issues with this vs public address space.

Just be aware that by default Hobbit will do a DNS lookup for the hostname in the bb-hosts file. So, if you have public DNS for the hostname, then you may have problems ... in which case use the 'testip' flag for that host (there may also be an option to make this the default).

Regards,
Buchan

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Buchan Milne
ISP Systems Specialist - Monitoring/Authentication Team Leader
B.Eng,RHCE(803004789010797),LPIC-2(LPI000074592)