Re: [hobbit] big brother replacement

[Sloan <joe (at) tmsusa.com>]

Well, bb being somewhat modular, there are 3 components: BBNET, BBPAGER,
BBDISPLAY

BBNET is the component of bb that tests the network
services/connectivity on the remote hosts.

Joe

Josh Luthman wrote:
> I see now - you've a redundant BBNET.  I haven't used BB in several
> weeks and I never got really complex with it - a lot of ping tests was
> what I needed out of it.  Can you explain what BBNET is?
>
> On 11/1/07, *Sloan* <joe (at) tmsusa.com <mailto:joe (at) tmsusa.com>> wrote:
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>     Josh Luthman wrote:
>     > I see what you're saying, but you still have to manually specify
>     > which server you're connecting to.  If the bb1.domain.tld can not be
>     > reached the techs have to manually enter bb2.domain.tld - correct?
>
>     Well, no need to enter anything manually. We have on each big brother
>     server a page with links to all the other bb servers, and I'm sure the
>     support folks have links bookmarked, so if the DC1 data center is
>     down, then instead of clicking on e.g. dc1bbdata, they'd click on
>     dc2bbdata. Normally the 2 bb display servers in each pair provide an
>     identical view, so this only matters in the event of an outage.
>
>     >
>     > I know of several BB ext scripts that work perfectly with Hobbit and
>     > even more then just needed a small weak.  Would you be able to post
>     > the entire ext script?  Hopefully Henrik is willing to answer your
>     > $64 question =)
>
>     Sure, I can post the entire script - it's in the attachment -
>
>     Joe
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