On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Ralph Mitchell <ralphmitchell at gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Josh Luthman < josh at imaginenetworksllc.com> wrote:
I believe a "ghost" is where there is data/history for a host but it is not listed on bb-hosts.
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 1:44 PM, Hubbard, Greg L <greg.hubbard at eds.com> wrote:
I thought "ghosts" were clients that send in data, but their name is not a match in the bb-hosts file. If you decide to get rid of a client, you have to a) update bb-hosts to suspend polling, and b) update the client so either the agent does not run, or so that it sends its data elsewhere.
In my case. I was fooling around with the bb-stocks.sh script from deadcat.net, running it from hobbitlaunch.cfg on the server. It sends reports where the hostname is the ticker symbol (e.g. IBM, MSFT, etc) and the column name is "stock". I let it run for a while, then marked the entry in hobbitlaunch as DISABLED and dropped the stock names.
This morning, while reading this email thread, I went back to the script and inserted "exit" right at the top, so it shouldn't be possible for the script to produce a report, even if it gets launched.
The ticker symbols do *not* show up in the hobbitdboard output. They *were* in the data/hist/allevents file, but
trimhistory --cutoff=`date +%s --date="19 May 2008"` --droptook care of that. I've confirmed via grep that the names do not appear in any file in the Hobbit directory hierarchy.
I *do* still see the ticker symbols in "bb localhost ghostlist", but they don't appear in the Ghost Clients web page.
Maybe I'm missing something obvious. Here's a quick test if you're interested in replicating the problem:
server/bin/bb localhost "status server,domain,com.bogus green
date" server/bin/bb localhost hobbitdboard | grep server server/bin/bb localhost ghostlist | grep serverserver.domain.com should not ever have existed in your bb-hosts file. It will show up in the Ghost Clients web page for 5 minutes. 45 minutes after doing the above, it's still showing in "bb localhost ghostlist".
Ralph Mitchell
Replying to myself with an update for any interested parties: "bb localhost ghostlist" is still showing:
server.domain.com|127.0.0.1|12112189833 hours after sending that status report just one time, manually. The big number after the IP address translates to the date/time the report was sent, "Mon May 19 12:43:03 2008".
Maybe this is a bug in the ghost handling procedures??
Ralph Mitchell