Re: [hobbit] Big brother client hobbit server

["Ralph Mitchell" <ralphmitchell (at) gmail.com>]

On 9/7/06, Rob MacGregor <rob.macgregor (at) gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/7/06, Jones, Jason (Altrincham) <JasonAS_Jones (at) mentor.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I guess this has probably been asked before but can a big brother client
> > report meaningfully to a hobbit server?
>
> Yes.

Definitely  :)

> > If it can then can it report to both a hobbit and big brother server at
> > the same time?
>
> If the client supports multiple servers.
>
> > If it can then wow, and what would my associates have to alter on their
> > big brother client? (they won't allow me access to the machine as it is
> > the DNS for all our European sites :) )

There's some code in bbinc.sh (normally included by all client
scripts) that picks out entries from the bb-hosts file that contain
BBDISPLAY.  If you can convince your associates to add a line to the
client bb-hosts with your Hobbit server, you should be OK.

Ralph Mitchell