Manocchia, Robert wrote:

I just set up a new server to connect to my hobbit server for monitoring. I can see conn, info and trends but nothing else. When I check the hobbitclient.log on the client server I see the following error:

Could not connect to bbd at 127.0.0.1:1984 - Connection refused

I have checked /etc/hosts , bb-hosts, and uname and the names all match.

I have restarted the hobbit client on the client server to no avail.

I’m baffled.

Since the Xymon server is completing "conn" tests correctly, you know the server bb-hosts etc. is OK. The Xymon client does not autodetect the server, so it must have the Xymon server's IP address configured. Is it?

I have no details on your installation, so generally check around for the file that sets BBDISP on your client. That may be the client/etc/hobbitclient.cfg file under your client install root, or for some packaged clients, it might be an /etc/default/hobbit-client or /etc/sysconfig/hobbit file.

Hope that helps. -Alan