[hobbit] Cluster monitoring (proxy setup)

[Sigurður Guðbrandsson]

Hi.

If you wish to forward messages using multiple displays you should
change a couple of things, revert the configuration files
(hobbitlaunch.cfg) to make hobbit act as a display server then you
should change hobbitserver.cfg as follows:
BBDISP="0.0.0.0"
BBDISPLAYS="$BBSERVERIP 12.34.56.78"

The BS ip should be changed to whatever the ip is for your main hobbit
server.

This configuration *should* work. Just reply if it doesn't.

With regards,
  Sigurdur Gudbrandsson

On Tue, 2007-06-26 at 13:21 -0400, Ben Fenstermaker wrote:
> The more I read through the archives, the more confused I am on how to
> implement this. Basically, I want to monitor 64 compute nodes that are
> on a private network. I do not want to have to install the client on
> all of the nodes as all I care about is the ping test. I have a main
> hobbit server that I want to merge the info from the cluster and from
> various other systems that I monitor. 
> 
> To work as a bridge, I installed hobbit on the head node of the
> cluster as it is the only system with an interface on both networks.
> On the head node I disabled all of the hobbitd modules and setup
> bbproxy to forward messages to my main hobbit server. This didn’t
> work. After reading up on the bbproxy man page it looks like bbproxy
> is really meant to forward client messages on to a bbdisplay. Since I
> don’t have the hobbit client installed on the compute nodes it doesn’t
> sound like bbproxy will work for this. I am a bit confused on what
> actually does the network tests. Do I have to have hobbitd running on
> the head node in order for the network tests to run? If that is the
> case, how do I get hobbitd to forward information on to a different
> hobbit server? 
> 
> I am pretty sure that I have simply failed to understand one of the
> man pages or something, but I cant seem to figure out how to
> accomplish what I am looking to do.