Have you removed the entry in hobbit-clients,cfg?

/Lars ----- Original Message ----- From: Benjamin Gagnon To: hobbit at hswn.dk Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 9:08 AM Subject: [hobbit] drop test not sticking...

Hi, I'm having a problem with dropping a host's test.

I perform the following command from the server (there are no output errors or errors in the error log)...

bb 127.0.0.1 "drop opsappsl.lac-bac.gc.ca ports"

Within a couple of minutes the ports column gets dropped and then a couple of minutes later the column reappears. So the drop command works ok but the settings do not stick.

I've RTFM'd and searched the web for answers to no avail. Anyone have any ideas?

thanks Benjamin

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On Monday 19 March 2007, Benjamin Gagnon wrote:

Hi, I'm having a problem with dropping a host's test.

I perform the following command from the server (there are no output errors or errors in the error log)...

bb 127.0.0.1 "drop opsappsl.lac-bac.gc.ca ports"

Within a couple of minutes the ports column gets dropped and then a couple of minutes later the column reappears. So the drop command works ok but the settings do not stick.

I've RTFM'd and searched the web for answers to no avail. Anyone have any ideas?

To remove a test: 1)Remove the test from the configuration file for the server that is running the test (so that no new data is generated) 2)Drop the test (to prevent the test from going purple now that it receives no data)

However, note that the ports test is not run from the Hobbit server, the ports data is supplied by the client ...

If you were dropping the entire host, this would make sense, but I can't see why you would want to drop the ports test for one host (and ... this is a bit tricky). Maybe you can explain?

You could accomplish this by hacking up the hobbit-client-<OS>.sh script on the client.

Regards, Buchan

-- Buchan Milne ISP Systems Specialist - Monitoring/Authentication Team Leader B.Eng,RHCE(803004789010797),LPIC-2(LPI000074592)

On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 01:08:59AM -0700, Benjamin Gagnon wrote:

Hi, I'm having a problem with dropping a host's test.

I perform the following command from the server (there are no output errors or errors in the error log)...

bb 127.0.0.1 "drop opsappsl.lac-bac.gc.ca ports"

Within a couple of minutes the ports column gets dropped and then a couple of minutes later the column reappears. So the drop command works ok but the settings do not stick.

The "ports" column re-appears because it is one of the columns generated from the client data. So after you drop it, it will be re-created the next time the client sends in an update.

If you want to remove the "ports" column because it is clear (white), then use the "NOCOLUMNS:ports" setting in bb-hosts, or change hobbitserver.cfg so hobbitd_client is launched with the --no-clear-ports option.

Regards, Henrik