On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 09:04:18AM -0500, Hubbard, Greg L wrote:
I am monitoring some special purpose AIX systems, and every once in a while the client sends more data than the server can handle. It looks like the cause might be the routing table dump, which can be quite large on these systems. Evidently these systems dynamically add a lot of host-specific route entries. I don't recall anything on the Hobbit server that checks the client routing table, so is it going to be a problem if I simply disable this part of the client data gathering?
Shouldn't be a problem. It's included mainly because it is useful for troubleshooting network problems, but there aren't any checks in Hobbit which directly makes use of the routing table data.
Of course, you could just increase the MAXMSG_CLIENT setting on the Hobbit server (e.g. add MAXMSG_CLIENT="1024" to hobbitserver.cfg and restart Hobbit).
Regards, Henrik