I fixed it!! I went to /etc/hobbit/client/etc/hobbitclient.cfg, but I don't have that location, so I corrected the path to /etc/hobbit/hobbitclient.cfg, but I did not see anything that would produce the problem, but then I realized that it had an include at line 3 that is include /etc/default/hobbit-client So I opened the file and sure, it was there. The server is set to 127.0.0.1, but the client name had the computer name in the domain and not actually the domain we use externally (our web site domain and internal domain are different). So, thanks a lot Rich. I got it working. Now I will start adding some more checks on the server
David Hay Currie IT Manager Leisure Fitness 231 Executive Dr. Suite 15 Phone: 302-224-5018 Fax: 302-224-5001 (atte: David Hay Currie)
-----Original Message----- From: Rich Smrcina [mailto:rsmrcina at wi.rr.com] Sent: Thursday, December 24, 2009 12:01 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] xymon pluggin not working on server
The host name of the server isn't going to matter to the client, the client is configured to talk to the server via its IP address.
Is the IP address of the server correct in the Linux client configuration file (in your case /etc/hobbit/client/etc/hobbitclient.cfg)? Check the ghost report on the
server to see if any ghosts appear. Do they match any of the Linux clients that we are discussing?
On 12/24/2009 10:04 AM, David Hay Currie wrote:
Sorry, yes the hobbit_client process is running, but sleeping (which I guess is because it only runs every 5 minutes? All files in the /etc/hobbit are owned by root:root with permission 644, but I checked with another machine that only has the client running and it is the same, so it should be fine. /var/log/hobbit is owned by hobbit:adm and it has special permission. They also are the default permission. However, when I compared the actual server, with the other linux client (I have only 1 desktop running Linux), I realized that is not reporting the client test either. The linux desktop I installed the client yesterday, and I just added it yesterday to the xymon server. Here is the interesting, if I ping the server name (FQDN) it replies with a different FQDN. The linux server is used for several things so it has 3 FQDN for example (imagine my domain is contoso.com) Intranet.contoso.com ftp.contoso.com helpdesk.contoso.com those are the 3 DNS A records, however the server itself should be called intranet.contoso.com. Could the problem be that dns reports ftp.contoso.com when the server is intranet.contoso.com the problem?
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