Whoops ! bb failed to send message - timeout

["Mark Whalley" <Mark.Whalley (at) ingres.com>]

Hi xymon/hobbit group

 

Over the past couple of days, I have been trying to set up a xymon with
some success.

 

My setup so far.  I have xymon 4.3.0.0 beta2 installed and running on a
Fedora 11 Virtual Machine (VMWare server 1.0.9) on a Windows XP laptop.
This xymon server appears to be working correctly with it monitoring
itself (bbgen, bbtest, conn, cpu etc) and happily doing connectivity
tests to some remote linux/aix servers that I have access to at work.
So far, so good.

 

I now want to do some client monitoring.  Initially starting with the
in-built monitoring tools (cpu, disk etc), then to develop some of my
own scripts (korn/born shell) to monitor my Ingres installations.  To
start off, I have installed xymon client on another laptop which is also
running Fedora 11 (on bare metal rather than via a VM).  Although the
xymon server is happily pinging the client and showing green on the
current status, I do not seem to be able to get it to display any of the
other data.

 

On checking the client, I am getting "Whoops ! bb failed to send message
- timeout" every 5 minutes within hobbitclient.log.

 

On further checking, I have found that although I can telnet and ping
from the server to the client, the client is unable to even ping the
server (via IP address) - it just hangs.

 

Server to Client:

[xymon (at) beziers etc]$ ping 192.168.1.69

PING 192.168.1.69 (192.168.1.69) 56(84) bytes of data.

64 bytes from 192.168.1.69: icmp_seq=1 ttl=128 time=5.74 ms

64 bytes from 192.168.1.69: icmp_seq=2 ttl=128 time=1.41 ms

64 bytes from 192.168.1.69: icmp_seq=3 ttl=128 time=2.42 ms

 

Client to Server:

[xymon (at) lecroisic client]$ ping 192.168.174.129

PING 192.168.174.129 (192.168.174.129) 56(84) bytes of data.

 

Thinking it might be a firewall issue, I have temporarily disabled all
firewall protection on both client and server, and even disabled the
firewall on Windows XP (within which the VMawre Server is running the
xymon server) - but with no success.

 

This unfortunately is where my networking knowledge fails me (and thus
my plea for help!) and a Google search has not given me any clues (that
I can understand).  

Any thoughts?

 

 

Regards

Mark