This behavior is usually caused by the host names not agreeing between the hobbit client and server. The hobbit client uses the return from 'uname -n' for the name it reports to the server. If this doesn't match whats in bb-hosts, hobbitd will just discard the message.

Thanks, Larry Barber

On Fri, 2005-09-02 at 07:46 -0500, Allan.Marillier at dana.com wrote:

I have a strange problem with some clients, I would appreciate any suggestions if anyone has seen it or can give any ideas about the problem. I have a number of servers running RedHat AS 2.1, RedHat AS 3, and Fedora with my hobbit server on Fedora Core 4. I built the client on one AS 2.1 server, then created a tarball and copied all files over to all other AS 2.1 servers. More than half work with no problem, reporting memory, CPU, disk etc, but some don't report anything. I stopped the client and removed all files, then rebuilt the client using ./configure --client; make; make install which worked with no errors. I see no errors in my hobbit server logs, and I can telnet from the clients to the server on port 1984 with no problem.

The hobbit client seems to be running properly, and I don't see anything unusual in the logs.

ps -elf | grep hobbit

040 S hobbit 25382 1 0 75 0 - 363 schedu Aug31 ? 00:00:00 /home/hobbit/client/bin/hobbitlaunch --config=/home/hobbit/client/etc/clientlaun 000 S hobbit 28365 1 0 85 5 - 561 wait4 08:37 ? 00:00:00 sh -c vmstat 300 2 1>/home/hobbit/client/tmp/hobbit_vmstat.28352 2>&1; mv /home/ 000 S hobbit 28368 28365 0 82 5 - 363 schedu 08:37 ? 00:00:00 vmstat 300 2 000 S root 28925 28788 0 76 0 - 436 pipe_w 08:41 pts/0 00:00:00 grep hobbit

pwd

/home/hobbit/client/logs

ls -al

total 2 -rw-rw-r-- 1 hobbit hobbit 139 Aug 31 12:31 clientlaunch.log -rw-rw-r-- 1 hobbit hobbit 6 Aug 31 12:31 clientlaunch.pid -rw-rw-r-- 1 hobbit hobbit 0 Aug 31 12:31 hobbitclient.log

cat clientlaunch.log

2005-08-31 12:31:45 hobbitlaunch starting 2005-08-31 12:31:45 Loading tasklist configuration from /home/hobbit/client/etc/clientlaunch.cfg