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Sorry that wasn't clearer. I was/am trying to invoke the client as part of the server, so it is in hobbitlaunch.cfg -- the mention of "copying" was about having copied it to this e-mail for people to look at.

Henrik appears to have proposed the solution. I shall report if it works.

On 1/14/2011 3:59 AM, Chris.Morris at rwe.com wrote:

Perhaps the salient point here is "That file exists, as I copied the above [hobbitclient] section out of t."

To where? Where are you trying to invoke the client from?

-----Original Message----- From: Ryan Novosielski [mailto:novosirj at umdnj.edu] Sent: 13 January 2011 21:10 To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: [xymon] Repeat: Client test problems on Xymon server 4.2.3

I had posted a message on this before and never really got anywhere with it. I just re-read all of the replies from last time and none of them really gave me anything to go on (they say look at logs, but none end up being created).

First off, here is the section that starts the Xymon client from within the Xymon server's hobbitlaunch.cfg:

"hobbitclient" runs the Xymon client. The client is installed

automatically # when you install a Xymon server (presumably, you do want to monitor the # Xymon server ?), but there's no need to have two hobbitlaunch instances # running at the same time. So we'll just run it from here.

Note: If you are using another client package, you should disable this

one.

[hobbitclient] ENVFILE /opt/xymon-4.2.3/client/etc/hobbitclient.cfg NEEDS hobbitd CMD /opt/xymon-4.2.3/client/bin/hobbitclient.sh LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/hobbitclient.log INTERVAL 5m

I checked to see where this LOGFILE is supposed to be going: BBSERVERLOGS="/opt/xymon-4.2.3/log"

So I looked in there:

...

ls -la /opt/xymon-4.2.3/log/ total 3228 drwxr-xr-x 2 xymon daemon 512 Jan 13 15:48 . drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 512 Sep 16 2009 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 xymon daemon 1550037 Dec 23 15:47 bb-network.log -rw-r--r-- 1 xymon daemon 74080 Jul 26 16:39 bb-retest.log -rw-r--r-- 1 xymon daemon 9314 Jan 13 15:48 hobbitlaunch.log -rw-r--r-- 1 xymon daemon 5 Jan 13 15:48 hobbitlaunch.pid

No such file. So I checked the hobbitlaunch.log sitting here:

2011-01-13 15:48:06 hobbitlaunch starting 2011-01-13 15:48:06 Loading tasklist configuration from /opt/xymon-4.2.3/server/etc/hobbitlaunch.cfg

That file exists, as I copied the above [hobbitclient] section out of t.The last thing I can think of is that maybe $BBSERVERLOGS is not defined in the context in which it is needed. Beyond that, I'm totally out of ideas. It appears as if this section is completely ignored. On both of my machines, if I don't start the client (by changing to the client directory and doing ./runclient.sh start), it doesn't get started.

Any clues?

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Ah! Yes it is. It did not occur to me that the network test machines didn't run hobbitd. I will give that a try.

Note that I can't get the machine that DOES run hobbitd to work right in this regard either, but I'll ask another question about that if need be.

-- Sent from my Palm Pre On Jan 14, 2011 6:58, Henrik Størner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:

In <4D2F6A27.9000803 at umdnj.edu> Ryan Novosielski <novosirj at umdnj.edu> writes:

>[hobbitclient]

> ENVFILE /opt/xymon-4.2.3/client/etc/hobbitclient.cfg

> NEEDS hobbitd

> CMD /opt/xymon-4.2.3/client/bin/hobbitclient.sh

> LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/hobbitclient.log

> INTERVAL 5m

>I checked to see where this LOGFILE is supposed to be going:

>BBSERVERLOGS="/opt/xymon-4.2.3/log"

>So I looked in there:

>> ls -la /opt/xymon-4.2.3/log/

>total 3228

>drwxr-xr-x 2 xymon daemon 512 Jan 13 15:48 .

>drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 512 Sep 16 2009 ..

>- -rw-r--r-- 1 xymon daemon 1550037 Dec 23 15:47 bb-network.log

>- -rw-r--r-- 1 xymon daemon 74080 Jul 26 16:39 bb-retest.log

>- -rw-r--r-- 1 xymon daemon 9314 Jan 13 15:48 hobbitlaunch.log

>- -rw-r--r-- 1 xymon daemon 5 Jan 13 15:48 hobbitlaunch.pid

>No such file.

The "NEEDS hobbitd" line means that the "hobbitd" task must be started,

before "hobbitclient" will run. Since there is no "hobbitd.log" in

that directory either, I assume you have disabled the "hobbitd" task.

Perhaps this is a server that only runs network tests ?

Anyway, remove the "NEEDS hobbitd" line, and it should start up

just fine.

Regards,

Henrik

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