Thanks Henrik! Unbeknownst to me there was some sort of turf war of sorts... somebody changed the BBDISP via an "include" line in the hobbitclient.cfg file that changed where it was pointing to.
We added ours server to the BBDISPLAYS and we are happily co-existing now.
Thanks again! /tg
-----Original Message----- From: Henrik Størner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 6:49 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Purple Problems
In <0KCR0014H5S7P5 at emmsvr01.prod.fedex.com> Tim Grzechowski <tim.grzechowski.osv at fedex.com> writes:
Something on the network blew up, router or switch. Of course hobbit went purple. It was a Thursday afternoon and it was in the Network Gods hands at this point. They fixed it that night I had still had the purple condition in the morning. I checked both the server and clients (~100) and everything was running. I restarted both anyway and waited. Went home for the weekend. Came in Monday and still had the purple plague.
I assume your Hobbit webpages are being updated ? (Check the timestamp in the upper-right corner).
Is hobbitd_client running on the server ?
On one of the clients, login as the user running the HObbit client and run the "bbcmd" tool. You'll get a new shell prompt. Do an echo $BB echo $BBDISP and check that these point to the "bb" utility on the client, and the IP-address of your Hobbit server.
Then run $BB $BBDISP "ping" You should get a response back from the Hobbit server.o
Next, run $BB $BBDISP "status $MACHINE.purpletest green Checking status"
This sends a "purpletest" status-message to the Hobbit server. If everything works OK, then you should get a "purpletest" status column (in color green) for this client host) the next time the Hobbit webpages are updated.
Let us know what you find out.
Regards, Henrik
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