[hobbit] Use several Hobbit on different place

[Whilding, Craig]

In the main bb-hosts file on the server:

137.xxx.xxx.1 gb17.gb.domain.com                # NET:main DESCR:"printer: "

page remote remote

include /usr/local/hobbit/server/etc/bb-hosts(remote)



in the remote bb-hosts subfile:

subpage Printers Printers

137.xx1.xxx.1 gb6.gbr.domain.com		# NET:remote
(you don't really need these tags on the remote sites when all hosts in their bb-hosts file will be tested but it helps if you end up adding anymore tiers to your monitoring)


In hobbitserver.cfg on main server:

BBLOCATION="main"                    # The network location, makes bbtest-net test only hosts with NET:foo

In hobbitlaunch.cfg on remote:
CMD $BBHOME/bin/bbproxy --hobbitd --bbdisplay=137.xxx.xxx.1,127.0.0.1 --listen=137.xx1.xxx.54 --report --no-daemon --pidfile=$BBSERVERLOGS/bbproxy.pid
(ie send to main hobbit server and hobbit server running on localhost, listen on external address of localhost)

In hobbitserver.cfg on remote:
Ipaddress=127.0.01 or whatever the variable is.

There might be something else you need to do to get it working properly but I think this is it. Check the error logs if you have trouble with the remote side of things.


Regards,
Craig

-----Original Message-----
From: L.M.J [mailto:linuxmasterjedi at free.fr] 
Sent: 29 November 2007 16:48
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Use several Hobbit on different place

Le Thu, 29 Nov 2007 10:15:23 -0000,
"Whilding, Craig" <Craig_Whilding at mentor.com> a écrit :

> Further to this, if you want a display server running on the remote
> sites (in case the WAN goes down for example) then you must setup the
> secondary hobbit servers to run on localhost and get the proxy to
> forward to both the main server and the localhost while listening on the
> secondary server's external ipaddress.
> 
> This is what I do on most of our European sites and forward them to the
> central hub. It means we have the data in two places by default.

That's exactly what I want to do!

> The net location tags are very important if doing network tests at the
> remote sites so that the main server doesn't try testing them as well. I
> rsync the bb-hosts files from the remote servers with sub bb-host pages
> on the main server.

I will double check the "net" option in bb-hosts. Last thing I'm asking : could you send me samples of your
bb-hosts using the "net" option?

> Hope this is useful.
> 
> Regards,
> Craig