I have my Hobbit server behind a firewall. The Hobbit server appears to be running fine. I'm getting cpu, disk, files, etc data from client systems on the same network segment. With systems outside the firewall, I am only getting the conn, info, and trends - nothing else.
I'm using hobbit-4.2.0.tar.gz source on RHEL4 WS boxes, both server and clients.
On my outside client, /usr/local/hobbit/client/tmp has; hobbit_vmstat.ggw-s-log.ggw.noaa.gov.10947 msg.ggw-s-log.ggw.noaa.gov.txt The file creation dates are current, and being updated.
In /usr/local/hobbit/client/etc/clientlaunch.cfg I've changed [msgcache] DISABLED to ENABLED In .../hobbitclient.cfg, BBDISP="127.0.0.1"
selinux is set to permissive.
The hobbit client has been restarted.
The msgcache.log shows a normal start and listening on 0.0.0.0:1984 The clientlaunch.log does not show any errors. The hobbitclient.log does not show any errors. (existing entries are old errors.)
Hobbit is configured to use uid = "bb". User bb can ssh without a password from the internal server to the external client. Tested on IP, and all variations of the full URL, and configured alias URLs.
In /usr/local/hobbit/server/etc/bb-hosts, the external client has "pulldata" listed after the #
The hobbit server has been restarted.
I must be missing something, but I'm not having much luck figuring out what it is. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Gar
On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 10:18 -0600, Gar Nelson wrote:
I have my Hobbit server behind a firewall. The Hobbit server appears to be running fine. I'm getting cpu, disk, files, etc data from client systems on the same network segment. With systems outside the firewall, I am only getting the conn, info, and trends - nothing else.
I'm using hobbit-4.2.0.tar.gz source on RHEL4 WS boxes, both server and clients.
Did you set enable hobbitfetch on the server? By default it isn't enabled.
In hobbitlaunch.cfg, you need something like:
"hobbitfetch" is used when you have clients that cannot connect to your Hobbit server,
but the Hobbit server can connect to the client. Normally the clients will initiate
a connection to the Hobbit server to deliver the data they collect, but this is
forbidden in some firewall setups. By enabling the hobbitfetch task, hosts that have
the "pulldata" tag in the bb-hosts file will be polled by hobbitfetch for their data.
NOTE: On the clients you must enable the "msgcache" task, since this is what
hobbitfetch is talking to.
[hobbitfetch]
DISABLED
ENVFILE /usr/lib/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
CMD $BBHOME/bin/hobbitfetch --server=127.0.0.1 --no-daemon --pidfile=$BBSERVERLOGS/hobbitfetch.pid
LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/hobbitfetch.log-- Daniel J McDonald, CCIE #2495, CISSP #78281, CNX Austin Energy http://www.austinenergy.com
McDonald, Dan wrote:
On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 10:18 -0600, Gar Nelson wrote:
I have my Hobbit server behind a firewall. The Hobbit server appears to be running fine. I'm getting cpu, disk, files, etc data from client systems on the same network segment. With systems outside the firewall, I am only getting the conn, info, and trends - nothing else.
I'm using hobbit-4.2.0.tar.gz source on RHEL4 WS boxes, both server and clients.
Did you set enable hobbitfetch on the server? By default it isn't enabled.
In hobbitlaunch.cfg, you need something like:
[hobbitfetch] *ENABLED* ENVFILE /usr/lib/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg CMD $BBHOME/bin/hobbitfetch *--server=127.0.0.1* --no-daemon --pidfile=$BBSERVERLOGS/hobbitfetch.pid LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/hobbitfetch.log
That was it, thanks! I needed to enable hobbitfetch on the server, and to also specify my server IP. I did that and bounced the server, and now I'm getting the external system data columns.
Gar
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