Re: [xymon] How to setup a remote copy of my XYMON Display

[Josh Luthman <josh (at) imaginenetworksllc.com>]

Wouldn't it make more sense to have the client send it to both?  This way if
one server goes totally out (more importantly the box running bbproxy) the
other server is still 100% useful?

Josh Luthman
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On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Cleaver, Japheth <jcleaver (at) soe.sony.com>wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Paul Jochum [mailto:hobbit (at) paul.jemail.info]
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2010 2:39 PM
> > To: xymon (at) xymon.com
> > Subject: [xymon] How to setup a remote copy of my XYMON Display
> >
> > Hi All:
> >
> > I have been reading through the forum archives for most of the day, but
> still confused, and would
> > appreciate any help.  Here is what I am trying to do:
> >
> > Background:
> > - I have a xymon server setup, that is monitoring a number of clients on
> the local net, and it is
> > working well.
> > - The server, and most of the clients, are running 4.3.0-beta2
>
> What you've described *should* work, it's basically a duplication of the
> older BBPROXY functionality. One option is certainly to have reports go to
> multiple locations at the outset, and to have bbproxy running on 1984
> locally and proxy it to a both the "real" hobbitd server on a different port
> as well as your remote server. The drawback there is you don't necessarily
> get self-generated client reports from the middle server (nor hobbitd/bbgen
> statuses).
>
>
> For me, it's working on my boxes with the config below. BBDISPLAYS will be
> what it sends both processed reports and internally generated reports to.
>
> Are you using an RPM? Check that the runtime.cfg hack inside the init.d
> script on the intermediate/proxy server isn't somehow overwriting what you
> think BBDISPLAYS is at runtime?
>
>
> 10.5.5.5 = client
> 10.10.10.10 = proxying Xymon server (not a bbproxy instance, but an actual
> hobbitd)
> 10.20.20.20 = final destination Xymon server
>
>
> [root (at) 10.5.5.5]# grep HOBBITSERVER /etc/sysconfig/xymon*
> /etc/sysconfig/xymon-client:HOBBITSERVERS="10.10.10.10"
>
> [root (at) 10.10.10.10]# grep -R -e BBDISP -e HOBBITSERVER -e BBSERVERIP -e
> ^include /etc/sysconfig/xymon-client /etc/xymon/hobbitserver.cfg
>
> /etc/sysconfig/xymon-client:HOBBITSERVERS="10.20.20.20"
> /etc/xymon/hobbitserver.cfg:include /etc/sysconfig/xymon-client
> /etc/xymon/hobbitserver.cfg:BBSERVERIP="127.0.0.1"      # The IP-address of
> your server. Use the
> /etc/xymon/hobbitserver.cfg:BBDISP="0.0.0.0"            # IP of a single
> hobbit/bbd server
> /etc/xymon/hobbitserver.cfg:BBDISPLAYS="$BBSERVERIP $HOBBITSERVERS" # IP of
> multiple hobbit/bbd
>
>
> And it works... The status for the client disk reports are visible on the
> final server, with a "Status message received from 10.5.5.5" notice. The
> disk reports from the client running on the proxy Xymon server indicate
> "Status message received from 10.10.10.10"
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> -jc
>