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Bryan Agee
Asked: 2011-05-19 09:58:24 +0800 CST

Trying to get Hobbit clients to show cpu, mem, disk, etc

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I have a Hobbit server set up with a handful of hosts using conn, http, ssh, and sslcert services, but would like to add the other tests as well. I've installed hobbit-client on a server, and added:

 # CLIENT:fqdn.example.com

to it's host line in bb-hosts, and added:

HOST=fqdn.example.com

before the default configuration in hobbit-clinets.cfg, but no joy. Does anyone know what else I need to do for those tests to register?

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2 Answers

  1. Your changes to bb-hosts and hobbit-clients.cfg should not be necessary. The following entry in bb-hosts works fine for me:

    10.0.0.10    myserver

    And the extra columns will show regardless of your hobbit-clients.cfg configuration.

    I would check the client side:

    • In hobbitclient.cfg, is the BBDISP variable set to the IP address of the server?
    • Have you run runclient.sh on the client? You should add it as a service so it starts automatically when the host starts.
    • Do the clientlaunch.log and hobbitclient.log show errors?

    If that doesn't work, make sure hobbitd is running on the server and listening on the port defined in hobbitclient.cfg.

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  2. I had the same behaviour when I needed to change the server the client was reporting to.

    On Debian, I found that the file /etc/default/hobbit-client was actually providing the IP address.

    I tracked this down when I saw it was an included file in /etc/hobbit/hobbitclient.cfg.

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