Hi Henrik,

thanks for the advice. BBGHOSTS showed me the missing machines with the underscores in the name. The error was, that I had not dots within the IPs but something like "<ALT-GR>+. ". The other problem was the windows client which was sending the data to an address elsewhere but not to the hobbit. Since the IPs only differed in one digit we both overlooked the error :-)

But there is another question. How can I check with the Hobbit client for errors and warnings in /var/log/messages or /var/adm/messages or any other logfile?

Thanks again for the great tool. Torsten

• -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: RE: [hobbit] BB Windows client 1.08d + msgs question Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 14:00:23 +0100 From: henrik at hswn.dk (Henrik Stoerner) Reply-To: hobbit at hswn.dk To: hobbit at hswn.dk References: <7008517.389111143011402342.JavaMail.servlet at kundenserver>

On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 08:10:02AM +0100, bb4 at richter-it.net wrote:

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Hi Jeff,

thanks for the answer, but this is not the problem since we don't use FQDN at all and I double checked it with the admin of the windows box. Furthermore we have a parallel installation with a BB server where the client is showing up correctly.

Aside from this we also have some Solaris 10 clients not showing up on Hobbit but on BB. Since these are zones in a server we have named them server1_zone_project and server2_zone_project. For them I can even see some data arriving when I enable the debug mode of Hobbit but for the first one there is nothing although the packet sniffer shows me incoming data on the server.

Check that you have BBGHOSTS="2" in hobbitserver.cfg. If not, change it and restart Hobbit.

With that change in place, status reports from clients that HObbit do not recognize are listed in the "hobbitd" status column for the Hobbit server itself. You should be able to find your clients from the IP-address and/or the hostname they use. Once you have that, you can add a CLIENT:hostname_used_by_the_client to the bb-hosts file so Hobbit can match the client status reports with the hosts listed in Hobbit.

Henrik