[hobbit] Two BBDisplays, one collaboration

[Josh Luthman]

Note to all people:

With BBLOCATION="display" set on the main display it caused all my hosts
(which did not have Net:display) to go purple.  Lots and lots of purple.  If
you set BBLOCATION and do not have Net:whatever set on your hosts they do
not get polled, making them go purple after a while.

Josh

On 11/5/07, Josh Luthman <josh at imaginenetworksllc.com> wrote:
>
> Tod,
>
> I've configured it that way and neither of the www pages have any
> information (concerning these hosts).  I do know that 1984 is "connectable"
> from the new Hobbit server (tested with nmap).
>
> Any other ideas out there?  From what little I know about this it seems
> like this Net option is just an extra step, it doesn't seem required - is
> this true?  What is the simplest way of getting the list of hosts on both
> bbdisplays?
>
> Josh
>
> On 11/5/07, Tod Hansmann <thansmann at directpointe.com> wrote:
> >
> >  So, we have two servers doing tests, and they display their own tests,
> > and also send alerts to the main display.  So the main display is an
> > aggregate of both test servers.  This looks to be similar to what you're
> > doing, so I hope that helps put the rest of this info in context.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > This is the testers:
> >
> > BBDISP="0.0.0.0 "
> >
> > BBDISPLAYS=" 127.0.0.1 ip.of.main.display"
> >
> >    ------ more stuff -------
> >
> > BBLOCATION="poller1"
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > The BBLOCATION is important to the setup.  I'll point out why in a
> > moment.  Also, ip.of.main.display is the same in both configs here.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > This is the main display:
> >
> > BBSERVERIP="ip.of.main.display"
> >
> > BBDISP="$BBSERVERIP"
> >
> > BBDISPLAYS=""
> >
> >    ------ more stuff -------
> >
> > BBLOCATION="display"
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Now in the bb-hosts file, I have Net:poller1 with all the hosts poller1
> > polls, and Net:poller2 with all the hosts poller2 polls.  This may not be
> > useful in the setup you're trying to get working, but it can't hurt to
> > include.  I think your original config is the one to go with, but I might go
> > with 127.0.0.1 and no spaces.  I'm pretty sure the BBDISPLAYS just has
> > bbtest-net send it to everything in that list when it has a status message.
> > Also note that port 1984 will have to be opened appropriately on any
> > firewalls.
> >
> >
> >
> > Way more info than you probably need, but I do hope some of it helps.
> >
> >
> >
> > *Tod Hansmann*
> >
> > Network Engineer
> >
> >
> >
> >  <http://www.directpointe.com/>
> >   ------------------------------
> >
> > *From:* Josh Luthman [mailto:josh at imaginenetworksllc.com]
> > *Sent:* Saturday, November 03, 2007 12:58 PM
> > *To:* hobbit at hswn.dk
> > *Subject:* [hobbit] Two BBDisplays, one collaboration
> >
> >
> >
> > What I am trying to do is have two BBDisplay servers.  The first one
> > being our main one - monitors our network equipment and things - and a
> > second one that lives on the customer's network and pings APs, Switches,
> > etc.
> >
> > I have setup this in bb-hosts on the main one:
> >
> > page HIXX Holiday Inn X X
> > group-compress <H3><I>Access Points</I></H3>
> > 1.2.3.4 host.com # noconn
> >
> > group-compress <H3><I>HIDM Hardware</I></H3>
> > 2.3.4.5 host2.com # noconn
> >
> > Reason for the noconn is that these are all private IPs, accessible only
> > by the customer's LAN.  These configuration match those of the customer's
> > bb-hosts (with the exception of noconn, of course =)
> >
> > I then went into the customer's server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg and changed
> > it as such:
> >
> > BBDISP=" 0.0.0.0"
> > BBDISPLAYS=" 10.59.1.119,MAINSERVERPUBLIC"
> >
> > I have also tried it without quotes
> >
> > When I set this neither BBDisplay has anything on the www pages, they're
> > completely blank!  Once I switch it to
> >
> > BBDISP="$BBSERVERIP"            # IP of a single hobbit/bbd server
> > BBDISPLAYS=""
> >
> > It works perfectly fine on the customer's server, but the main one is
> > display blank (obviously =)
> >
> > Please let me know where I went wrong.  Thanks in advance!
> >
> > Josh
> >
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> >
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> > --- Henry Spencer
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> Josh Luthman
> Office: 937-552-2340
> Direct: 937-552-2343
> 1100 Wayne St
> Suite 1337
> Troy, OH 45373
>
> Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
> --- Henry Spencer
>



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Josh Luthman
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1100 Wayne St
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Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
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