On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 10:18 -0600, Gar Nelson wrote:

I have my Hobbit server behind a firewall. The Hobbit server appears to be running fine. I'm getting cpu, disk, files, etc data from client systems on the same network segment. With systems outside the firewall, I am only getting the conn, info, and trends - nothing else.

I'm using hobbit-4.2.0.tar.gz source on RHEL4 WS boxes, both server and clients.

Did you set enable hobbitfetch on the server? By default it isn't enabled.

In hobbitlaunch.cfg, you need something like:

"hobbitfetch" is used when you have clients that cannot connect to your Hobbit server,

but the Hobbit server can connect to the client. Normally the clients will initiate

a connection to the Hobbit server to deliver the data they collect, but this is

forbidden in some firewall setups. By enabling the hobbitfetch task, hosts that have

the "pulldata" tag in the bb-hosts file will be polled by hobbitfetch for their data.

NOTE: On the clients you must enable the "msgcache" task, since this is what

hobbitfetch is talking to.

[hobbitfetch]

DISABLED

    ENVFILE /usr/lib/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
    CMD $BBHOME/bin/hobbitfetch --server=127.0.0.1 --no-daemon --pidfile=$BBSERVERLOGS/hobbitfetch.pid
    LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/hobbitfetch.log

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