[hobbit] Using bbproxy to replicate the display

Thomas tlp-hobbit at holme-pedersen.dk
Wed Nov 2 15:21:54 CET 2005


In my setup I have --listen=127.0.0.1 on the hobbitd section and 
--listen=172.17.100.10 --bbdisplay=127.0.0.1,172.17.100.20 on the 
bbproxy section.

My central server is on 172.17.100.20

Try to look at netstat -ln and see where you have the port 1984 listening.

Whilding, Craig wrote:

>The --listen option is set to 127.0.0.1 only for hobbitd in the
>hobbitlaunch.cfg file. 
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>Even when hobbitd is DISABLED I still get the socket is in use. 
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Thomas [mailto:tlp-hobbit at holme-pedersen.dk] 
>Sent: 02 November 2005 13:55
>To: hobbit at hswn.dk
>Subject: Re: [hobbit] Using bbproxy to replicate the display
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>No but you should remove the $BBSERVERID from the --listen option on 
>hobbitd.
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>Whilding, Craig wrote:
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>>Just looking through again, should BBSERVERID in hobbitserver.cfg still
>>be set as the real ip of the machine? 
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] 
>>Sent: 01 November 2005 15:40
>>To: hobbit at hswn.dk
>>Subject: Re: [hobbit] Using bbproxy to replicate the display
>>
>>On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 01:15:48PM -0000, Whilding, Craig wrote:
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>>>My company has a few sites that are currently using hobbit or big
>>>brother for monitoring. What we wish to do is forward all of this
>>>information to a central hobbit server so collate it for reports etc.
>>>This server would also be testing the networks site gateways etc.
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>>After
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>>>reading the "delay creation of web pages" posts I realise bbproxy is
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>>the
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>>>replacement to bbrelay I require but I was wondering how I should set
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>>it
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>>>up. Looking at the manual and hobbitlaunch.cfg it says I should
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>>disable
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>>>hobbitd. Will each sites monitoring work as normal if I set
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>>--bbdisplay=
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>>>localhost and also the other, central machine?
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>>By default, hobbitd and bbproxy will conflict because they will both
>>attempt to listen to port 1984 to handle incoming messages.
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>>But if you configure them properly, they can coexist. The setup you're
>>after sounds like you want bbproxy to receive all of the incoming
>>status messages and then forward them to a) a local hobbitd running
>>on the same host, and b) the central hobbitd server.
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>>The easiest way to do that is to setup the local hobbitd's to listen on
>>only the loopback interface (127.0.0.1), and bbproxy to listen on the 
>>public IP-address. Say your local server has IP 172.16.10.1 and the 
>>central Hobbit server is 10.0.100.200, then you should use the options 
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>> --listen=127.0.0.1 
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>>for hobbitd, and 
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>> --listen=172.16.10.1 --bbdisplay=127.0.0.1,10.0.100.200
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>>for bbproxy.
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>>Regards,
>>Henrik
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