[hobbit] display howto

[Lee J. Imber]

Thanks Henrik and Larry for the replies.

I will definitely give that a try.

Thanks!

Lee

On Apr 5, 2006, at 4:23 PM, Henrik Stoerner wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 04:09:54PM -0400, Lee J. Imber wrote:
>>
>> I have a rack of servers on the east coast with a hobbit server and a
>> second rack of servers on the west coast with it's own hobbit server.
>> Each hobbit server only reports on the servers in its rack. The two
>> hobbit server do not know the other exists.
>>
>> What I would like to do is make the east coast hobbit server be the
>> "master" server.
>> Is there a way that I can have the west coast hobbit server send it's
>> display to the east coast hobbit server.
>
> Insert a bbproxy between the clients and the hobbit server on your
> west coast installation, then configure bbproxy to forward incoming
> messages to both servers.
>
> Right now:
> * West coast hobbitd listens on 1.2.3.4 port 1984
> * West coast client sends message to IP 1.2.3.4 port 1984 (hobbitd)
>
> With bbproxy:
> * West coast hobbitd listens on 127.0.0.1 port 1984
> * West cost bbproxy listend on 1.2.3.4 port 1984
> * West coast client sends message to IP 1.2.3.4 port 1984 (bbproxy)
> * bbproxy forwards incoming messages to 127.0.0.1 port 1984, and
>   to east coast hobbitd on 5.6.7.8 port 1984.
>
> Note that you do not need any changes to the clients.
>
> Changes needed:
> * Add a --listen=127.0.0.1 to hobbitd in your west coast
>   hobbitlaunch.cfg
> * Enable bbproxy in your west coast hobbitlaunch.cfg. Use the option
>   "--bbdisplay=127.0.0.1,5.6.7.8" to tell it to forward requests to
>   both servers.
> * Change the BBSERVERIP setting in your hobbitserver.cfg to point
>   at the 127.0.0.1 address. This setting is used e.g. by the web CGI's
>   that talk to the "real" hobbit server, so it is best to point this
>   at the real server IP, not the proxy.
> * If you run network tests from the same server, then you probably
>   need to change the CMD setting in hobbitlaunch.cfg also. Instead
>   of calling bbtest-net directly, put it into a shell script wrapper
>   and set BBDISP explicitly to the 5.6.7.8 address before running
>   bbtest-net. Otherwise, it will pick up the BBSERVERIP setting and
>   send the network test results to 127.0.0.1 - so they won't go
>   through the proxy, and hence you won't see them on the east coast
>   server.
> * Restart Hobbit
>
>
> Henrik
>
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