Well, the client is actually installed vi cfengine. It pulls down the files into the hobbit directory with proper permissions and it does this on all of our clients. This client is the same OS/config as the last one I installed but it is having the problem. I've also noted that the client has tons of free disk.

The listing in the client-local.cfg isn't specific to client name, it is based on a group (linux in this case).

Is there any way to manually duplicate what the client is doing when downloading this info to get some debugging output?

From: Haertig, David F (Dave) [mailto:haertig at avaya.com] Sent: Monday, June 25, 2007 3:13 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] client-local.cfg not propagating

Possibly filespace or permissions problems in the client computer's hobbit tmp directory?

You don't have a typo in client-local.cfg where you mispelled the name of the client you want to do the downloading?

From: Peters, Ron [mailto:rpeters at columbia.com] Sent: Monday, June 25, 2007 3:58 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] client-local.cfg not propagating Hello all,

I have a client that isn't receiving the client-local.cfg information. The 'files' and 'msgs' categories are reported as 'clear' since there is no data on which to base a status.

I've re-installed the client, uninstalled and copied the directory from a working client, and re-installed a working client to validate that it isn't a server issue. What would cause a client to NOT download this configuration?

Any thoughts?

Thanks

I have the same problem with clients not getting the information from the hobbit-clients.cfg

My server is on Soalris 10 and the Linux and Solaris 8 clients are not getting the info. Solaris 10 clients are fine

Holly Lund 301-903-1174 202-586-4431

-----Original Message----- From: Peters, Ron [mailto:rpeters at columbia.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2007 12:34 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] client-local.cfg not propagating

The client actually isn't sending information about these files. As I understand the script (hobbitclient.sh) that is running (on the client), it calls the logfetch utility that gathers the information about the files/msgs I want. What I'm seeing is that the hobbitclient.sh should create the .../hobbit/tmp/logfetch.uname.cfg that contains the list of files that should be monitored. This part isn't happening. Not sure how the list of files is gathered from the hobbit server. I'd like to see some debug from that process to find out what is wrong.

More thoughts?

Thanks again...

-----Original Message----- From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] Sent: Monday, June 25, 2007 10:24 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] client-local.cfg not propagating

On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 02:58:14PM -0700, Peters, Ron wrote:

I have a client that isn't receiving the client-local.cfg information.

The 'files' and 'msgs' categories are reported as 'clear' since there is no data on which to base a status.

Watch out - the client-local.cfg settings only determine which files the client will report data for. To actually get a real (green/red/yellow) status message, you need to configure hobbit-clients.cfg as well, telling Hobbit how to analyze the data it gets about these files.

It sounds like you're on the right track - the client is sending data about the files you want to watch - but you just need to configure the analysis part of Hobbit.

Regards, Henrik

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