Honestly either one would work for me - I'd like to go for whatever is easiest to maintain, so option b would be my preference.<br><br>I see on the demo site that at the bottom it has an SSLUG remote host. The links go to the remote bbdisplay, making it so that if IPs or hosts need to be changed, they're only changed on this one server.
<br><br>This would be perfect for my situation, though I don't know what the tyge or www tests are or what changed I need to do. I would imagine it is simply adding a couple of lines in bb-hosts though it may include bblocation in the
hobbitserver.cfg.<br><br>Does anyone know how Henrik got his demo site setup like that?<br><br>Josh<br><br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/5/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Hubbard, Greg L</b> <<a href="mailto:greg.hubbard@eds.com">
greg.hubbard@eds.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">Ah. You have a couple of options.</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">a) configure each client (at a customer location) to send
to the local server as well as the main server. This means that your
customer clients must all appear in the bb-hosts in your main server, as well as
in the bb-hosts for the server at the customer location.</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">b) (might work) -- you can have the Hobbit server at the
customer location send up a summary to your main server. You will get a
single dot that shows the overall status of that customer. The dot is
linked to the Hobbit page on the remote server. This way you don't have to
keep updating your central server as hosts come and go at remote
locations.</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">And you can mix and match these
methods.</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"></font></span> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">GLH</font></span></div><br>
<blockquote style="margin-right: 0px;">
<div dir="ltr" align="left" lang="en-us">
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<font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span class="q"><b>From:</b> Josh Luthman
[mailto:<a href="mailto:josh@imaginenetworksllc.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">josh@imaginenetworksllc.com</a>] <br></span><b>Sent:</b> Monday, November 05,
2007 1:22 PM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:hobbit@hswn.dk" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">hobbit@hswn.dk</a></font><div><span class="e" id="q_1161174f1aff4bb4_3"><font face="Tahoma" size="2">
<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [hobbit] Two
BBDisplays, one collaboration<br></font></span></div><br></div><div><span class="e" id="q_1161174f1aff4bb4_5">
<div></div>I can't scp the entire host list, nor would I need to - it isn't
going to change and the hosts are not identical.<br><br>Let me tell you how
the overall picture looks. We have a main Hobbit server that monitors
our backbone, customers' home routers, WWW servers and things. Now we're
adding a Hobbit at a hotel's LAN. The first step was to get Hobbit
running there on its own little world and ping the access points. Now
the next step, where I'm stuck, is to duplicate the information that is sent
from bbtest to the bbdisplay on our company Hobbit. <br><br>The hotel's list
of hosts is limited - their APs and a couple of their guest/lobby PCs.
Ours needs to have the things it has currently, but another page that includes
the hotel's hosts.<br><br>Sorry, I know I'm terrible at explaining my own
situations =( <br><br>Josh<br><br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/5/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Tod
Hansmann</b> <<a href="mailto:thansmann@directpointe.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">thansmann@directpointe.com</a>>
wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div vlink="blue" link="blue" lang="EN-US">
<div>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial;">We just scp the
hostlist from one to the others anytime changes are made. You could
probably do this in a cron-job as well.</span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial;"></span></font> </p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial;">Do you have
BBLOCATION set? You shouldn't if you're not using
Net:foo</span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial;"></span></font> </p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial;">Do the displays
have the entire bb-hosts file from both? The bb-gen won't generate
pages for any of the hosts it doesn't know about via bb-hosts. Have
you verified that hobbit is getting the status messages from one server to
the other? Lastly, I'm picking at straws here, but do you have any
errors in the bb-display log? </span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial;"></span></font> </p>
<div>
<p><b><font color="#3c4b51" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(60, 75, 81); font-family: Arial;">Tod
Hansmann</span></font></b><font color="navy"><span style="color: navy;"></span></font></p>
<p><font color="#3c4b51" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(60, 75, 81); font-family: Arial;">Network
Engineer</span></font><font color="navy"><span style="color: navy;"></span></font></p>
<p><font color="#3c4b51" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(60, 75, 81); font-family: Arial;"></span></font> </p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: navy;"><a title="http://www.directpointe.com/" href="http://www.directpointe.com/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
<span title="http://www.directpointe.com/"><span title="http://www.directpointe.com/"><span title="http://www.directpointe.com/"><span title="http://www.directpointe.com/"><span title="http://www.directpointe.com/"><span title="http://www.directpointe.com/">
<font color="navy"><span style="color: navy; text-decoration: none;"><img title="http://www.directpointe.com/" border="0" height="22" width="108"></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></a></span> </font>
</p></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;" align="center"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">
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<p><b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;">From:</span></font></b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;"> Josh
Luthman [mailto:<a href="mailto:josh@imaginenetworksllc.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">josh@imaginenetworksllc.com</a>] <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span>
</b> Monday, November 05, 2007 11:04
AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> <a href="mailto:hobbit@hswn.dk" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">hobbit@hswn.dk</a><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">
Subject:</span></b> Re: [hobbit] Two BBDisplays,
one collaboration</span></font></p></div>
<div><span>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></font> </p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Tod,<br><br>I've configured it that way and neither
of the www pages have any information (concerning these hosts). I do
know that 1984 is "connectable" from the new Hobbit server (tested with
nmap).<br><br>Any other ideas out there? From what little I know about
this it seems like this Net option is just an extra step, it doesn't seem
required - is this true? What is the simplest way of getting the list
of hosts on both bbdisplays? <br><br>Josh</span></font></p>
<div>
<p><span><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">On 11/5/07, <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Tod
Hansmann</span></b> <<a href="mailto:thansmann@directpointe.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">thansmann@directpointe.com</a>>
wrote:</span></font></span></p>
<div vlink="blue" link="blue">
<div>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial;">So, we have two
servers doing tests, and they display their own tests, and also send alerts
to the main display. So the main display is an aggregate of both test
servers. This looks to be similar to what you're doing, so I hope that
helps put the rest of this info in context.</span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial;"></span></font> </p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial;"></span></font> </p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial;">This is the
testers:</span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial;">BBDISP="<a href="http://0.0.0.0" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
0.0.0.0 </a>"</span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial;">BBDISPLAYS="<a href="http://127.0.0.1" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
127.0.0.1</a>
ip.of.main.display"</span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial;"> ------
more stuff -------</span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial;">BBLOCATION="poller1"</span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial;"></span></font> </p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial;"></span></font> </p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial;">The BBLOCATION is
important to the setup. I'll point out why in a moment. Also,
ip.of.main.display is the same in both configs here.</span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial;"></span></font> </p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial;"></span></font> </p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial;">This is the main
display:</span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial;">BBSERVERIP="ip.of.main.display"</span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial;">BBDISP="$BBSERVERIP"</span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial;">BBDISPLAYS=""</span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial;"> ------
more stuff -------</span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial;">BBLOCATION="display"</span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial;"></span></font> </p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial;"></span></font> </p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial;">Now in the bb-hosts
file, I have Net:poller1 with all the hosts poller1 polls, and Net:poller2
with all the hosts poller2 polls. This may not be useful in the setup
you're trying to get working, but it can't hurt to include. I think
your original config is the one to go with, but I might go with <a href="http://127.0.0.1" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">127.0.0.1</a> and no spaces. I'm
pretty sure the BBDISPLAYS just has bbtest-net send it to everything in that
list when it has a status message. Also note that port 1984 will have
to be opened appropriately on any firewalls.</span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial;"></span></font> </p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial;">Way more info than
you probably need, but I do hope some of it helps.</span></font></p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-family: Arial;"></span></font> </p>
<div>
<p><b><font color="#3c4b51" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(60, 75, 81); font-family: Arial;">Tod
Hansmann</span></font></b></p>
<p><font color="#3c4b51" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(60, 75, 81); font-family: Arial;">Network
Engineer</span></font></p>
<p><font color="#3c4b51" face="Arial" size="1"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(60, 75, 81); font-family: Arial;"></span></font> </p>
<p><font color="navy" face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: navy;"><a title="http://www.directpointe.com/" href="http://www.directpointe.com/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
<span title="http://www.directpointe.com/"><span title="http://www.directpointe.com/"><span title="http://www.directpointe.com/"><span title="http://www.directpointe.com/"><span title="http://www.directpointe.com/"><span title="http://www.directpointe.com/">
<font color="navy"><span style="color: navy; text-decoration: none;"><img title="http://www.directpointe.com/" border="0" height="22" width="108"></span></font></span></span></span></span></span></span></a></span> </font>
</p></div>
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<p><b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;">From:</span></font></b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;"> Josh
Luthman [mailto: <a href="mailto:josh@imaginenetworksllc.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">josh@imaginenetworksllc.com</a>] <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span>
</b> Saturday, November 03, 2007 12:58
PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> <a href="mailto:hobbit@hswn.dk" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">hobbit@hswn.dk</a><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">
Subject:</span></b> [hobbit] Two BBDisplays, one
collaboration</span></font></p></div>
<div><span>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></font> </p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">What I
am trying to do is have two BBDisplay servers. The first one being our
main one - monitors our network equipment and things - and a second one that
lives on the customer's network and pings APs, Switches, etc.<br><br>I have
setup this in bb-hosts on the main one:<br><br clear="all">page HIXX Holiday
Inn X X<br>group-compress <H3><I>Access
Points</I></H3><br><a href="http://1.2.3.4" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">1.2.3.4</a> <a href="http://host.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
host.com</a> # noconn
<br><br>group-compress <H3><I>HIDM
Hardware</I></H3><br><a href="http://2.3.4.5" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">2.3.4.5</a> <a href="http://host2.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
host2.com</a> # noconn <br><br>Reason
for the noconn is that these are all private IPs, accessible only by the
customer's LAN. These configuration match those of the customer's
bb-hosts (with the exception of noconn, of course =)<br><br>I then went into
the customer's server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg and changed it as
such:<br><br>BBDISP="<a href="http://0.0.0.0" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"> 0.0.0.0</a>"<br>BBDISPLAYS=" <a href="http://10.59.1.119" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
10.59.1.119</a>,MAINSERVERPUBLIC"<br><br>I have also tried it
without quotes<br><br>When I set this neither BBDisplay has anything on the
www pages, they're completely blank! Once I switch it to
<br><br>BBDISP="$BBSERVERIP"
# IP of a single hobbit/bbd server<br>BBDISPLAYS=""<br><br>It works
perfectly fine on the customer's server, but the main one is display blank
(obviously =)<br><br>Please let me know where I went wrong. Thanks in
advance!<br><br>Josh<br><br>-- <br>Josh Luthman<br>Office:
937-552-2340<br>Direct: 937-552-2343<br>1100 Wayne St<br>Suite 1337<br>Troy,
OH 45373<br><br>Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent
it, poorly.<br>--- Henry Spencer </span></font></p></span></div></div></div>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br clear="all"></span></font></p></div>
<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Josh Luthman<br>Office: 937-552-2340<br>Direct:
937-552-2343<br>1100 Wayne St<br>Suite 1337<br>Troy, OH 45373<br><br>Those
who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. <br>---
Henry Spencer </span></font></p></span></div></div></div><br clear="all"></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Josh
Luthman<br>Office: 937-552-2340<br>Direct: 937-552-2343<br>1100 Wayne
St<br>Suite 1337<br>Troy, OH 45373<br><br>Those who don't understand UNIX are
condemned to reinvent it, poorly. <br>--- Henry Spencer
</span></div></blockquote></div>
</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Josh Luthman<br>Office: 937-552-2340<br>Direct: 937-552-2343<br>1100 Wayne St<br>Suite 1337<br>Troy, OH 45373<br><br>Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
<br>--- Henry Spencer