In <98B0CDCB28A5EE4CB3678CD99406644E02DB735F at tbmail2.tradebot.com> "Taylor Lewick" <tlewick at tradebotsystems.com> writes:
More digging, this stems from the fact that I was passing channel=3Dclient, and hobbit_filestore doesn't support the client = channel, at least in the version I have, i.e. 4.2.0 I just tried running: bbcmd hobbitd_channel --channel=3Ddata --log=3D/home/hobbit/data/logs/clientcpu.log hobbitd_filestore --data = and that did work. =20
So now it's a question of, how do I get hobbitd_filestore to work with hobbit_channel --channel=3Dclient? Modify hobbitd_filestore.c?
hobbitd_filestore was only intended as a compatibility module for people migrating from Big Brother. Since BB didn't have the concept of "client data", there is no support for logging client data via hobbitd_filestore.
I would advise against logging all client data to disk files - unless you have a small setup (only a few hosts) it will cause a lot of disk I/O and generally make your Xymon server very busy. Much better to have your custom handler work directly from the data that is fed to it via STDIN from hobbitd_channel.
Regards, Henrik