[hobbit] building bbproxy

[Henrik Stoerner]

On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 09:59:55AM +0200, Buchan Milne wrote:
> On Tuesday 29 August 2006 22:15, Henrik Stoerner wrote:

> > If you're running bbproxy, you should not be running the hobbitd task.
> > The [hobbitd] task runs ONLY on the real Hobbit server - not on proxy
> > servers, network testers, clients or any other box.
> 
> Hmm, if that's the case, why does hobbitlaunch.cfg have:
> 
> [bbnet]
>         ENVFILE /usr/lib/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
>         NEEDS hobbitd
>         CMD bbtest-net --report --ping --checkresponse
>         LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/bb-network.log
>         INTERVAL 5m
> 
> Should the "NEEDS hobbitd" be removed?

Yes, or replaced with "NEEDS bbproxy".

> In my case, I want to use one "monitoring" server in a network as proxy and 
> network tester, and I wouldn't mind having a display on it too (eg, in the DR 
> site).

Then you must setup the hobbitd process to listen on a separate IP (e.g.
127.0.0.1) so it doesn't conflict with bbproxy listening on the same
port.


Regards,
Henrik