[hobbit] hobbitdboard via bbproxy

Henrik Stoerner henrik at hswn.dk
Tue Oct 16 14:31:31 CEST 2007


On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 12:15:01PM +0200, Buchan Milne wrote:
> I have a multi-server setup, with one display/bbnet, and two other 
> bbnet/bbproxy boxes. The only access to the display server from some networks 
> is via the proxies. I now require some of the clients behind one of the 
> proxies to check the status of some of their tests, and I thought 
> hobbitdboard or similar would be ideal.
> 
> I can use 'bb $displayserver "hobbitdboard host=foo service=bar color=red"' 
> from the proxy, but I can't do 'bb localhost "hobbitdboard host=foo 
> service=bar color=red"' from the proxy, while say 'bb localhost "config 
> bb-msgtab"' does work from the proxy.

Use
   bb proxyserverip "query foo.bar"

The 'query' command is forwarded by the proxy, the 'hobbitdboard'
command is not.


Henrik




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