On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 02:37:27PM -0500, Greg Larkin wrote:
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.
Thanks :-)
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.
**** **** 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/
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).
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.
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