[hobbit] display howto

Great Dilla great.dilla at gmail.com
Mon Apr 17 23:34:41 CEST 2006


Thanks for the inputs Larry. Will be trying this out.

On 4/18/06, Larry Barber <lebarber at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am running a setup similar to what you are aiming for, here is my hobbitd
> portion of hobbitlaunch:
>
>  [hobbitd]
>      HEARTBEAT
>      ENVFILE /usr/local/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
>      CMD hobbitd --pidfile=$BBSERVERLOGS/hobbitd.pid
> --restart=$BBTMP/hobbitd.chk
> --checkpoint-file=$BBTMP/hobbitd.chk
> --checkpoint-interval=600 --log=$BBSERVERLOGS/hobbitd.log
> --admin-senders=127.0.0.1,$BBSERVERIP --listen=x.x.x.x:1985  --ghosts=allow
> --status-senders=127.0.0.1,$BBSERVERIP  --dbghost=trackerdb
>
>  Notice the hobbit daemon is listening on port 1985 (you will also need to
> make a change in hobbitserver.cfg).
>  Here is the bbproxy:
>
>  [bbproxy]
>      ENVFILE /usr/local/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
>      CMD $BBHOME/bin/bbproxy --hobbitd --bbdisplay=x.x.x.x:1985
> --bbdisplay=y.y.y.y:1984 --bbdisplay=z.z.z.z:1984 --report=bb.bbproxy
> --no-daemon --pidfile=$BBSERVERLOGS/bbproxy.pid
>      LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/bbproxy.log
>
> Here notice the first bbdisplay option is what sends the messages to the new
> hobbitd port on the host machine, the next two send the messages to two
> other machines.
>
>  In order to get the network tests to be forwarded to the two other machines
> above I had to modify the network test portion of hobbitlaunch thusly:
>
>  [bbnet]
>      ENVFILE /usr/local/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
>      NEEDS hobbitd
>      CMD BBPORT=1984 bbtest-net --report --ping  --timeout=15
>      LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/bb-network.log
>      INTERVAL 2m
>
>  Before I added the BBPORT=1984 the program was sending the network reports
> direct to hobbitd on port 1985, the reports weren't being forwarded to the
> other machines.
>
>  Thanks,
>  Larry Barber



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