Hi, I tried this both ways, with the --local on the client and editing the Server side hobbit-clients.cfg, reloaded the server and still does not pick up the new params or the IGNORE? Any suggestions? Thank you in advance, Becki
-----Original Message----- From: hobbit at hswn.dk [mailto:hobbit at hswn.dk] Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 2:14 PM To: Rebecca Henderson; hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] hobit problem Importance: Low
Ok, thanks
-----Original Message----- From: hobbit at hswn.dk [mailto:hobbit at hswn.dk] Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 1:21 PM To: Rebecca Henderson; hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] hobit problem Importance: Low
Actually, I think AIX has problems with the client fetch business. You are better off with configuring these thresholds on the Hobbit server and let it do the calculations.
-----Original Message----- From: Rebecca Henderson [mailto:rebecca_henderson at link.freedom.com] Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 3:13 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] hobit problem
Well, that's a good question. I would think they would use the client side. How would I know for sure.
-----Original Message----- From: hobbit at hswn.dk [mailto:hobbit at hswn.dk] Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 12:44 PM To: Rebecca Henderson; hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] hobit problem Importance: Low
Obvious question, but are the clients configured to use the local config, or are they configured to use the server-side config?
On Dec 10, 2007 3:38 PM, Rebecca Henderson <[ mailto:rebecca_henderson at link.freedom.com ] rebecca_henderson at link.freedom.com> wrote:
Hello, I have a problem with aix clients. Here is my localclient.cfg DEFAULT UP 1h LOAD 5.0 10.0 DISK * 97 99 MEMPHYS 100 101 MEMSWAP 50 80 SWAP 70 90 MEMACT 90 97 DISK /var IGNORE I have tried HOST=myservername UP 1h LOAD 5.0 10.0 DISK * 97 99 MEMPHYS 100 101 MEMSWAP 50 80 SWAP 70 90 MEMACT 90 97 DISK /var IGNORE When I make changes to the localclient.cfg it never picks up the changes. Like The IGNORE? Am I doing something wrong? Host name is ok, ip is ok. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Becki
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I can't tell from what you have posted, but is the DEFAULT stanza the last entry in your configuration file? It should be, if you have it at the top it will always match and the later entries will be ignored.
Thanks, Larry Barber
On Dec 11, 2007 12:03 PM, Rebecca Henderson < rebecca_henderson at link.freedom.com> wrote:
Hi, I tried this both ways, with the --local on the client and editing the Server side hobbit-clients.cfg, reloaded the server and still does not pick up the new params or the IGNORE? Any suggestions? Thank you in advance, Becki
-----Original Message----- From: hobbit at hswn.dk [mailto:hobbit at hswn.dk] Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 2:14 PM To: Rebecca Henderson; hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] hobit problem Importance: Low
Ok, thanks
-----Original Message----- From: hobbit at hswn.dk [mailto:hobbit at hswn.dk] Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 1:21 PM To: Rebecca Henderson; hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] hobit problem Importance: Low
Actually, I think AIX has problems with the client fetch business. You are better off with configuring these thresholds on the Hobbit server and let it do the calculations.
-----Original Message----- From: Rebecca Henderson [mailto:rebecca_henderson at link.freedom.com] Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 3:13 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] hobit problem
Well, that's a good question. I would think they would use the client side. How would I know for sure.
-----Original Message----- From: hobbit at hswn.dk [mailto:hobbit at hswn.dk] Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 12:44 PM To: Rebecca Henderson; hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] hobit problem Importance: Low
Obvious question, but are the clients configured to use the local config, or are they configured to use the server-side config?
On Dec 10, 2007 3:38 PM, Rebecca Henderson <[ mailto:rebecca_henderson at link.freedom.com ] rebecca_henderson at link.freedom.com> wrote:
Hello, I have a problem with aix clients. Here is my localclient.cfg DEFAULT UP 1h LOAD 5.0 10.0 DISK * 97 99 MEMPHYS 100 101 MEMSWAP 50 80 SWAP 70 90 MEMACT 90 97 DISK /var IGNORE I have tried HOST=myservername UP 1h LOAD 5.0 10.0 DISK * 97 99 MEMPHYS 100 101 MEMSWAP 50 80 SWAP 70 90 MEMACT 90 97 DISK /var IGNORE When I make changes to the localclient.cfg it never picks up the changes. Like The IGNORE? Am I doing something wrong? Host name is ok, ip is ok. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Becki
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Becki,
You need to pick one approach, and use that. And how do you know it is not working?
If you put your settings in hobbit-clients.cfg, they are never sent to the client. Instead, the Hobbit server takes these parameters into account when it receives data from each Hobbit client.
From the Hobbit man page for client-local.cfg:
"The client-local.cfg file contains settings that are used by each Hobbit client when it runs on a monitored host. It provides a convenient way of configuring clients from a central location without having to setup special configuration maintenance tools on all clients. The client-local.cfg file is currently used to configure what logfiles the client should fetch data from, to be used as the basis for the "msgs" status column; and to configure which files and directories are being monitored in the "files" status column.
Note that there is a dependency between the client-local.cfg file and the hobbit-clients.cfg(5) file. When monitoring e.g. a logfile, you must first enter it into the client-local.cfg file, to trigger the Hobbit client into reporting any data about the logfile. Next, you must configure hobbit-clients.cfg so the Hobbit server knows what to look for in the file data sent by the client. So: client-local.cfg defines what raw data is collected by the client, and hobbit-clients.cfg defines how to analyze them. "
Try this:
Pick a host (maybe your Hobbit server) that has a working client. Update the hobbit-clients file with some silly settings, just for that host. Maybe you can alarm on a disk partition that is over 1 percent used, or something like that. Then sit back and watch for the status updates and the alarms to appear.
Unless I have it wrong, you may be getting confused by the presence of two very different configuration methods, coupled with the fact that Hobbit is the "strong silent type" and quietly ignores many input errors.
GLH
-----Original Message----- From: Rebecca Henderson [mailto:rebecca_henderson at link.freedom.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 12:04 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] hobit problem
Hi, I tried this both ways, with the --local on the client and editing the Server side hobbit-clients.cfg, reloaded the server and still does not pick up the new params or the IGNORE? Any suggestions? Thank you in advance, Becki
-----Original Message----- From: hobbit at hswn.dk [mailto:hobbit at hswn.dk] Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 2:14 PM To: Rebecca Henderson; hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] hobit problem Importance: Low
Ok, thanks
-----Original Message----- From: hobbit at hswn.dk [mailto:hobbit at hswn.dk] Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 1:21 PM To: Rebecca Henderson; hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] hobit problem Importance: Low
Actually, I think AIX has problems with the client fetch business. You are better off with configuring these thresholds on the Hobbit server and let it do the calculations.
-----Original Message----- From: Rebecca Henderson [mailto:rebecca_henderson at link.freedom.com] Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 3:13 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] hobit problem
Well, that's a good question. I would think they would use the client side. How would I know for sure.
-----Original Message----- From: hobbit at hswn.dk [mailto:hobbit at hswn.dk] Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 12:44 PM To: Rebecca Henderson; hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] hobit problem Importance: Low
Obvious question, but are the clients configured to use the local config, or are they configured to use the server-side config?
On Dec 10, 2007 3:38 PM, Rebecca Henderson <[ mailto:rebecca_henderson at link.freedom.com ] rebecca_henderson at link.freedom.com> wrote:
Hello, I have a problem with aix clients. Here is my localclient.cfg DEFAULT UP 1h LOAD 5.0 10.0 DISK * 97 99 MEMPHYS 100 101 MEMSWAP 50 80 SWAP 70 90 MEMACT 90 97 DISK /var IGNORE I have tried HOST=myservername UP 1h LOAD 5.0 10.0 DISK * 97 99 MEMPHYS 100 101 MEMSWAP 50 80 SWAP 70 90 MEMACT 90 97 DISK /var IGNORE When I make changes to the localclient.cfg it never picks up the changes. Like The IGNORE? Am I doing something wrong? Host name is ok, ip is ok. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Becki
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