[hobbit] Two BBDisplays, one collaboration

Mon Nov 5 19:50:40 CET 2007

We just scp the hostlist from one to the others anytime changes are
made.  You could probably do this in a cron-job as well.

Do you have BBLOCATION set?  You shouldn't if you're not using Net:foo

Do the displays have the entire bb-hosts file from both?  The bb-gen
won't generate pages for any of the hosts it doesn't know about via
bb-hosts.  Have you verified that hobbit is getting the status messages
from one server to the other?  Lastly, I'm picking at straws here, but
do you have any errors in the bb-display log? 

Tod Hansmann

Network Engineer

  <http://www.directpointe.com/>  

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From: Josh Luthman [mailto:josh at imaginenetworksllc.com] 
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 11:04 AM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Two BBDisplays, one collaboration

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 <http://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 <http://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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Troy, OH 45373

Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. 
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