[hobbit] Using bbproxy to replicate the display

[Thomas]

No but you should remove the $BBSERVERID from the --listen option on 
hobbitd.

Whilding, Craig wrote:

>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
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>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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