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Problems since upgrading from bbgen to Hobbit
by frederic.mangeant＠steria.com 29 Nov '05

29 Nov '05

Hi Henrik I upgraded this morning from bbgen 3.6 to Hobbit 4.1.2p1 (with ~ 1000 hosts), and have a few problems : - I can't display the history of one of my test : http://10.50.80.44/hobbit-cgi/bb-hist.sh?HISTFILE=cronos.AHD&ENTRIES=50&IP=… returns an internal server error [Tue Nov 29 12:08:08 2005] [error] [client 10.50.8.55] Premature end of script headers: bb-hist.sh, referer: http://10.50.80.44/hobbit-cgi/bb-hostsvc.sh?HOSTSVC=cronos.AHD&IP=10.50.80.… - I had a coredump with bbgen : $ file core core: ELF 32-bit LSB core file Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), SVR4-style, SVR4-style, from 'bbgen' $ gdb /BB/hobbit/server/bin/bbgen core GNU gdb 6.3 Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-linux-gnu"...Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1". Core was generated by `bbgen --recentgifs --subpagecolumns=2 --nopropred=AHD --subpagecolumns=2 --page'. Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted. Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libpcre.so.0...done. Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/libpcre.so.0 Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.6...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libc.so.6 Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/ld-linux.so.2 #0 0x40075941 in kill () from /lib/libc.so.6 (gdb) bt #0 0x40075941 in kill () from /lib/libc.so.6 #1 0x400756e5 in raise () from /lib/libc.so.6 #2 0x40076a86 in abort () from /lib/libc.so.6 #3 0x080639d1 in sigsegv_handler (signum=0) at sig.c:57 #4 <signal handler called> #5 main (argc=11, argv=0xbfffd7a4) at bbgen.c:586 (gdb) quit - some of my devices (running the Quest BB client 3.01) do not update their statuses as frequently as they should Even if I add a process to check, it doesn't appear in Hobbit. Could it be a compatibility problem (my tests with a Quest BB client 3.01 running on XP SP2 ran fine). - one of my custom network test keeps getting "Unexpected service response" Its definition is this : [ica] expect "ICA" port 1494 - I get a lot of errors in page.log : 2005-11-29 12:38:03 Bad timespec (missing colon or wrong weekdays): 1-6:0000:0700 Do I have to use "TIME=123456:0000:0700" ? Many thanks in advance for your help. Regards, -- Frédéric Mangeant Steria EDC Sophia-Antipolis

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[hobbit] RE : [hobbit] Problems since upgrading from bbgen to Hobbit
by nfigaro＠effigie.fr 29 Nov '05

29 Nov '05

> -----Message d'origine----- > De : Frédéric Mangeant [mailto:frederic.mangeant at steria.com] > Envoyé : mardi 29 novembre 2005 14:59 > À : hobbit at hswn.dk > Objet : Re: [hobbit] RE : [hobbit] Problems since upgrading > from bbgen to Hobbit > > > Merci pour l'info Nicolas. Avec plaisir. > > Running bb-hist.cgi returns 1000+ lines, and ends with : > > read(3, " 2005 green 1121362283 877\nThu"..., 4096) = 4096 > read(3, "0:59 2005 red 1121389259 12\nFr"..., 4096) = 4096 > read(3, "2005 clear 1121415369 12\nFri J"..., 4096) = 4096 > brk(0x84c1000) = 0x84c1000 > read(3, "5 green 1121440956 879\nFri Jul"..., 4096) = 4096 > read(3, "2005 red 1121467928 10\nSat Jul"..., 4096) = 4096 > read(3, "08:07:14 2005 clear 1121494034"..., 4096) = 4096 > read(3, "Sat Jul 16 15:22:19 2005 green "..., 4096) = 4096 > read(3, "1546235 880\nSat Jul 16 22:51:55 "..., 4096) = 4096 > read(3, " red 1121573209 10\nSun Jul 17 "..., 4096) = 4096 > read(3, "1:56 2005 clear 1121599316 10\n"..., 4096) = 4096 > read(3, "Jul 17 20:37:04 2005 green 112"..., 4096) = 4096 > read(3, "520 879\nMon Jul 18 04:06:39 2005"..., 4096) = 4096 > read(3, " 1121678494 10\nMon Jul 18 11:2"..., 4096) = 4096 > read(3, "592\nMon Jul 18 18:36:50 2005 gre"..., 4096) = 4096 > --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) --- > +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++ > > > This external script's color changes very frequently (I use > this to open > "fake" tickets in Computer Associates USPSD). > The ~data/hist/cronos.AHD file is more than 4 Mb, maybe I > should change > one of the "MAXMSG_*" settings in hobbitserver.cfg ? Or try to run a head -100 to select only the 100 most recent color changes and see if the SIGSEGV still occurs. You could certainly determine the amount of lines the cgi can handle. NF > > Regards, > > -- > > Frédéric Mangeant > > Steria EDC Sophia-Antipolis

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[hobbit] Problems since upgrading from bbgen to Hobbit
by nfigaro＠effigie.fr 29 Nov '05

29 Nov '05

> -----Message d'origine----- > De : Frédéric Mangeant [mailto:frederic.mangeant at steria.com] > Envoyé : mardi 29 novembre 2005 14:29 > À : hobbit at hswn.dk > Objet : Re: [hobbit] Problems since upgrading from bbgen to Hobbit > > >> - I can't display the history of one of my test : > >> > >> > http://10.50.80.44/hobbit-cgi/bb-hist.sh?HISTFILE=cronos.AHD&ENTRIES= > >> 50&IP=10.50.80.44&DISPLAYNAME=cronos > >> returns an internal server error A good way of solving this is to run the script bb-hist.sh with a -x option directly from the command line. There is only a call to the cgi. So you can then try a truss like this one : export QUERY_STRING="HISTFILE=cronos.AHD&ENTRIES=50&IP=10.50.80.44&DISPLAYNAME=cronos" . /usr2/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitcgi.cfg script /tmp/truss.txt truss /usr2/hobbit/server/bin/bb-hist.cgi $CGI_HIST_OPTS Hope this'll help, et bon courage. Nicolas Figaro

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[hobbit] Hobbit client for Windows
by Gerard＠ets.biz 29 Nov '05

29 Nov '05

WMI. I know nothing about programming; but - WMI. Every server we monitor and manage is running Windows 2000 server or later; which means we found our common ground. Peter - If you wanted to know who has been working on a hobbit client - we have. Attached is an implementation that runs as a windows service, checking performance counters and passing results to the server. The service is designed to query an SQL server (yes - MS SQL :)), passing it's full hostname as an argument, which returns a full list of WMI counters to monitor, the address of the hobbit server to report to, the frequency, whether to create a log file, and if so where. (Basically, the client is completely without any configuration, designed to up-date it's config with every boot) I agree we need someone to co-ordinate this effort to ultimately produce the windows / windoze client that Hobbit is lacking. One of the few short-comings of Hobbit IMHO. You can download the source at http://www.ets.biz/hobbitmonitor.zip - it's under any licensing model you care to chose :). Gerard Lill T: +44 (0)20 8797 7799 F: +44 (0)20 8797 4725 www.ets.biz Eclipse Technology Services -----Original Message----- From: Rob MacGregor [mailto:rob.macgregor at gmail.com] Sent: Monday, 28 November 2005 22:34 To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Hobbit client for Windows On 28/11/05, Jeff Newman <jeffnewman75 at gmail.com> wrote: > Please excuse my ignorance as Im new to hobbit/BB, but whats wrong > with the Big Brother client? I run a hobbit server, downloaded the windows > client > off of the big brother site, installed it, and it reports stuff to hobbit > just fine. Licensing - you may just want to read the license agreement :-) -- Please keep list traffic on the list. Rob MacGregor Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he doesn't become a monster. Friedrich Nietzsche To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk

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[hobbit] Hobbit client for Windows
by v.everett＠afgonline.com.au 29 Nov '05

29 Nov '05

Hi Lars, Henrik You are correct. This was a client installation only. I wouldn't try install the server on Windows. It might work, but I see no benefit. Cheers Vernon ----- No trees were killed in the creation of this message. However, many electrons were terribly inconvenienced. -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Monday, 28 November 2005 5:27 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Hobbit client for Windows On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 10:09:46AM +0100, lars ebeling wrote: > Where do I find the resource kit? I unpacked the latest snapshot and > started with configure. There where no sudo and fping. What other > utilities are needed? I think Vernon did a client-configuration only. Try running Hobbit's configure script with the --client option. Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ NOTICE: This message and any attachments are confidential and may contain copyright material of Australian Finance Group Limited or a third party. It is intended solely for the purpose of the addressee and any other named recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, distribution, disclosure or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. The confidentiality attached to this message is not waived or lost by reason of the mistaken transmission or delivery to any unintended party. If you have received this message in error, please notify the author immediately or contact Australian Finance Group on +61 8 9420 7888.

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[hobbit] Windows logs.
by v.everett＠afgonline.com.au 28 Nov '05

28 Nov '05

Hi Henrik Hobbit client runs on Windoze. (Disclaimer applies - see below) :-) After a little bit of playing around, I managed to compile the client in Windows, and it works. I did cheat a little. Sort of. I had Cygwin installed. For those not familiar with Cygwin, it brings the joys of Unix to Windows, including shell scripts, cron, sed, awk, ls, vi and all those other commands we know and love so much. It's published under GNU GPL. :-) You can download or install it from here. http://www.cygwin.com/ To quote their FAQ ---snip--- What is it? The Cygwin tools are ports of the popular GNU development tools for Microsoft Windows. They run thanks to the Cygwin library which provides the UNIX system calls and environment these programs expect. With these tools installed, it is possible to write Win32 console or GUI applications that make use of the standard Microsoft Win32 API and/or the Cygwin API. As a result, it is possible to easily port many significant Unix programs without the need for extensive changes to the source code. This includes configuring and building most of the available GNU software (including the packages included with the Cygwin development tools themselves). Even if the development tools are of little to no use to you, you may have interest in the many standard Unix utilities provided with the package. They can be used both from the bash shell (provided) or from the standard Windows command shell. ---snip--- To install Hobbit client, I simply extracted the .tar, ran configure.client, make, make install. There are a few caveats. 1. It needs a valid user. (Once Cygwin's installed check /etc/passwd for a list) 2. It doesn't like spaces in the install path folder names 3. Most of the development components of Cygwin need to be installed first. (These are not installed by default) It's far from perfect but I think it's a good starting point, and there will hopefully be no need for multiple code versions for different platforms. I hit a few problems. First, it doesn't know what OS it's running. I hacked the runclient.sh and set os to sunos to try and bring some sanity to the world, but it still had no clue. After looking at how runclient works, I realised I could rewrite hobbitclient-sunos.sh for Cygwin. I had to add a line to runclient.sh, just after the BBOSTYPE= I added echo $BBOSTYPE | grep cygwin && BBOSTYPE=cygwin This cuts all the other garbage from the uname -s output which might be different, depending on what version of Windoze you use. I then created a hobbitclient-cygwin.sh with a few commands changed to provide output as close to that provided by the equivalent sunos commands. (attached) Also, because of limitations in the Cygwin shell, I also had to abstract the vmstat test to an external script, which I put in $BBCLIENTHOME/bin/ for convenience. (Also attached) Right now it's doing its thing, and sending data back to the server (I think) but the server is not displaying any results other than conn. How can I check what's being received by the server, and what's being done with it? Regards Vernon ----- No trees were killed in the creation of this message. However, many electrons were terribly inconvenienced. -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Thursday, 24 November 2005 2:40 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Windows logs. On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 02:19:04PM -0800, Charles Jones -X (charljon - Cisco Learning Institute at Cisco) wrote: > Sounds like we need someone who is good at VC++ to create a nice > hobbit windows client. I would volunteer but I am lacking the > knowledge, I have a volunteer who is looking at doing a Hobbit client for Windows. Regards, Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ NOTICE: This message and any attachments are confidential and may contain copyright material of Australian Finance Group Limited or a third party. It is intended solely for the purpose of the addressee and any other named recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, distribution, disclosure or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. The confidentiality attached to this message is not waived or lost by reason of the mistaken transmission or delivery to any unintended party. If you have received this message in error, please notify the author immediately or contact Australian Finance Group on +61 8 9420 7888.

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[hobbit] Hobbit client for Windows
by v.everett＠afgonline.com.au 28 Nov '05

28 Nov '05

Indeed. I prefer the Unix command line, so I normally install it anyway. But most will have to install it. The biggest problem with a Windoze client will be the inconsistency of Windoze. With some versions, a command is standard. With others you require a service pack. Still others require the resource kit. Some versions of Windoze just don't have some commands. It gets quite ugly. I have been informed by my Windoze admin colleague that the behaviour of commands can differ between versions too. Cygwin is consistent, but not complete. I now understand why Henrik hasn't produced a Windoze client yet. Cheers Vernon ----- No trees were killed in the creation of this message. However, many electrons were terribly inconvenienced. -----Original Message----- From: lars ebeling [mailto:lars.ebeling at leopg9.no-ip.org] Sent: Monday, 28 November 2005 4:36 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Hobbit client for Windows Hi, but this means that you have to have Cygwin installed. (?) I have taht but not the resource kit. Regards Lars ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vernon Everett" <v.everett at afgonline.com.au> To: <hobbit at hswn.dk> Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 9:22 AM Subject: RE: [hobbit] Hobbit client for Windows Hi Henrik Not sure how I forgot this one, but sc will tell you all about services. Cheers V ----- No trees were killed in the creation of this message. However, many electrons were terribly inconvenienced. -----Original Message----- From: Vernon Everett [mailto:v.everett at afgonline.com.au] Sent: Monday, 28 November 2005 4:14 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] Hobbit client for Windows Hi Henrik Adding the -W to the ps command includes Windoze as well as Cygwin processes. I should have used that in my script. Also, we can monitor swap with the free command. I should have put that in too. Monitoring services from command line is possible, but only with the resource kit. There is a command called sclist which does it. As for the client modules - Hmmmm, that's C code. I will leave it to those that know better. :-) The sum total of my C knowledge doesn't extend very far beyond "Hello world". Cheers Vernon ----- No trees were killed in the creation of this message. However, many electrons were terribly inconvenienced. -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Monday, 28 November 2005 3:21 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Hobbit client for Windows (Note: I changed the subject) Hi Vernon, On Mon, Nov 28, 2005 at 03:01:41PM +0800, Vernon Everett wrote: > Hobbit client runs on Windoze. (Disclaimer applies - see below) > :-) > > After a little bit of playing around, I managed to compile the client > in Windows, and it works. [snip story of porting the client to Windows with Cygwin] > It's far from perfect but I think it's a good starting point, and > there will hopefully be no need for multiple code versions for > different platforms. It's a neat hack, and it does give you the basic functionality. But: There are some severe limitations to this approach. Cygwin's "ps" output for instance only includes the processes that have been started from a Cygwin prompt - not the system processes you'd probably want to check. And monitoring Windows services is not possible, I believe. > Right now it's doing its thing, and sending data back to the server (I > think) but the server is not displaying any results other than conn. > How can I check what's being received by the server, and what's being > done with it? It probably isn't doing anything with the data. The client data is handled by the hobbitd_client module, which needs to learn how to interpret data from this unknown OS called "windows". If you look at the hobbitd/client/ directory in the Hobbit sources, you'll see there are a bunch of files - one per OS - with code to handle the particular report sent by each OS. Something must be added to deal with the report from your Windows client. Regards, Henrik To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ NOTICE: This message and any attachments are confidential and may contain copyright material of Australian Finance Group Limited or a third party. It is intended solely for the purpose of the addressee and any other named recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, distribution, disclosure or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. The confidentiality attached to this message is not waived or lost by reason of the mistaken transmission or delivery to any unintended party. If you have received this message in error, please notify the author immediately or contact Australian Finance Group on +61 8 9420 7888. To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ NOTICE: This message and any attachments are confidential and may contain copyright material of Australian Finance Group Limited or a third party. It is intended solely for the purpose of the addressee and any other named recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, distribution, disclosure or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. The confidentiality attached to this message is not waived or lost by reason of the mistaken transmission or delivery to any unintended party. If you have received this message in error, please notify the author immediately or contact Australian Finance Group on +61 8 9420 7888. To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ NOTICE: This message and any attachments are confidential and may contain copyright material of Australian Finance Group Limited or a third party. It is intended solely for the purpose of the addressee and any other named recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, distribution, disclosure or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. The confidentiality attached to this message is not waived or lost by reason of the mistaken transmission or delivery to any unintended party. If you have received this message in error, please notify the author immediately or contact Australian Finance Group on +61 8 9420 7888.

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Multiple graphs on one page
by Tijl.VanDenBroeck＠vlafo.be 28 Nov '05

28 Nov '05

Hi, I got my informix script working with graphs but I want to add another graph for performance statistics on the same page. I've searched the man pages, site and the mailinglists archive and the only thing that came close was how to add extra graphs on the trends page. Is it possible to add extra graphs on one and the same status page. The data is put into different RRD's in the same server-side script. And I've already created the following hobbitgraph.cfg settings. [informix] FNPATTERN informix.(.*).rrd TITLE Informix usage YAXIS Percentage in use DEF:p at RRDIDX@=@RRDFN@:percdbs:AVERAGE LINE2:p at RRDIDX@#@COLOR@: @RRDPARAM@ -u 100 -l 0 GPRINT:p at RRDIDX@:LAST: \: %5.1lf (cur) GPRINT:p at RRDIDX@:MAX: \: %5.1lf (max) GPRINT:p at RRDIDX@:MIN: \: %5.1lf (min) GPRINT:p at RRDIDX@:AVERAGE: \: %5.1lf (avg)\n [informix1] FNPATTERN ifxperf(.*).rrd TITLE Informix performance YAXIS IO DEF:i at RRDIDX@=@RRDFN@:iosecs:AVERAGE LINE2:i at RRDIDX@#@COLOR@: IO/s GPRINT:i at RRDIDX@:LAST: \: %5.1lf (cur) GPRINT:i at RRDIDX@:MAX: \: %5.1lf (max) GPRINT:i at RRDIDX@:MIN: \: %5.1lf (min) GPRINT:i at RRDIDX@:AVERAGE: \: %5.1lf (avg)\n Thanks in advance. Tijl

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[hobbit] Linux client not reporting cpu, disk - but reporting other services
by U.Kirbach＠EnBW.com 28 Nov '05

28 Nov '05

Hello Henrik, i have the same problem with hobbit-4.1.2p1 Server running on Solaris9 and client on Solaris8. My Makefile for the server and Makefile + a recent msg.txt of the client are attched. hobbitlaunch + "hobbitd_channel --channel=client" are running. Also i have a huge amount of messages in hobbitd.log like "2005-11-28 13:01:21 BOARDBUSY locked at 1, GETNCNT is 0, GETPID is 20767, 1 clients" with "GETPID is" pids for hobbitd + "hobbitd_channel --channel=status" + "hobbitd_channel --channel=data" and in bb-display.log messages like " hobbitd status-board not available" It's a serious problem, because i want to rollout the hobbitclient to my site. Mit freundlichen Grüßen Uwe Kirbach -- Uwe Kirbach ____EnBW Systeme Infrastruktur Support GmbH SIS-GIBU Systemmanagement Unix Durlacher Allee 93 76131 Karlsruhe Telefon: +49 721 63-14139 Telefax: +49 721 63-12784 > -----Original Message----- > From: Martin Lyberg [mailto:martin.lyberg at gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 10:31 AM > To: hobbit at hswn.dk > Subject: Re: [hobbit] Linux client not reporting cpu, disk - > but reporting other services > > > Henrik, > > I still haven't managed to solve this issue. Do you have any other > clues what might be wrong? > > Thanks in advance. > > / Martin > > On 17/11/05, Martin Lyberg <martin.lyberg at gmail.com> wrote: > > On 11/17/05, Henrik Stoerner wrote: > > > > > > > Is there a "hobbitlaunch" process running ? > > > > > > > yes, "ps ax" shows a hobbitlaunch. > > > Is there a /usr/lib/hobbit/client/tmp/msg.txt file with a > > recent > > > (i.e. within the pas 5 minutes) timestamp ? > > > > yes, the file is there, with a recent timestamp: > > > > 1 hobbit hobbit 12878 Nov 17 13:46 msg.txt > > > > / Martin > > > > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to > hobbit-unsubscribe at hswn.dk > > >

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Linux client not reporting cpu, disk - but reporting other services
by martin.lyberg＠gmail.com 28 Nov '05

28 Nov '05

Hi, Today i installed the Hobbitclient on a linux-machine. I installed it out of the box from the rpm file. I added smtp as a service. It reports smtp, conn and trends. But there's no info about cpu or disk. Why is that? Have i done anything wrong? Thanks

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