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I am trying to monitor my home firewall.

What flavor? I use a Cisco PIX at home, and it can be monitored primarily with snmp.

Sorry I should have been more clear about my firewall. It is a linux router/firewall. Hobbit client running locally on it.

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I ran a sniff on the hobbit server, and saw traffic, so I do not believe it is being blocked.

Blocked by... what?

The hobbit client running on the firewall, is not blocked by the firewall's iptable rules.

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But the CPU, MEM, etc tests never show up.

On the firewall? What client is it running?

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In bb-hosts on the server, I listed the server with its FQDN.

Which server? The firewall?

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Am I missing something ?

Maybe, I can't figure out what you are asking...

Sorry, I should have been more clear.