[hobbit] Using bbproxy to replicate the display

Whilding, Craig Craig_Whilding at mentor.com
Thu Nov 3 16:08:52 CET 2005


Finally solved it - BBSERVERID was being used by another variable that
was performing network tests and listening on the external port.
Changing it to 127.0.01 lets me see the status board locally and have
the bbproxy working properly.

Thanks for the help.

Craig

-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas [mailto:tlp-hobbit at holme-pedersen.dk] 
Sent: 02 November 2005 14:22
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Using bbproxy to replicate the display

In my setup I have --listen=127.0.0.1 on the hobbitd section and 
--listen=172.17.100.10 --bbdisplay=127.0.0.1,172.17.100.20 on the 
bbproxy section.

My central server is on 172.17.100.20

Try to look at netstat -ln and see where you have the port 1984
listening.

Whilding, Craig wrote:

>The --listen option is set to 127.0.0.1 only for hobbitd in the
>hobbitlaunch.cfg file. 
>
>Even when hobbitd is DISABLED I still get the socket is in use. 
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Thomas [mailto:tlp-hobbit at holme-pedersen.dk] 
>Sent: 02 November 2005 13:55
>To: hobbit at hswn.dk
>Subject: Re: [hobbit] Using bbproxy to replicate the display
>
>No but you should remove the $BBSERVERID from the --listen option on 
>hobbitd.
>
>Whilding, Craig wrote:
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>>Just looking through again, should BBSERVERID in hobbitserver.cfg
still
>>be set as the real ip of the machine? 
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:henrik at hswn.dk] 
>>Sent: 01 November 2005 15:40
>>To: hobbit at hswn.dk
>>Subject: Re: [hobbit] Using bbproxy to replicate the display
>>
>>On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 01:15:48PM -0000, Whilding, Craig wrote:
>> 
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>>>My company has a few sites that are currently using hobbit or big
>>>brother for monitoring. What we wish to do is forward all of this
>>>information to a central hobbit server so collate it for reports etc.
>>>This server would also be testing the networks site gateways etc.
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>>After
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>>>reading the "delay creation of web pages" posts I realise bbproxy is
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>>the
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>>>replacement to bbrelay I require but I was wondering how I should set
>>>   
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>>>      
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>>it
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>>>up. Looking at the manual and hobbitlaunch.cfg it says I should
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>>disable
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>>>hobbitd. Will each sites monitoring work as normal if I set
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>>--bbdisplay=
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>>>localhost and also the other, central machine?
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>>By default, hobbitd and bbproxy will conflict because they will both
>>attempt to listen to port 1984 to handle incoming messages.
>>
>>But if you configure them properly, they can coexist. The setup you're
>>after sounds like you want bbproxy to receive all of the incoming
>>status messages and then forward them to a) a local hobbitd running
>>on the same host, and b) the central hobbitd server.
>>
>>The easiest way to do that is to setup the local hobbitd's to listen
on
>>only the loopback interface (127.0.0.1), and bbproxy to listen on the 
>>public IP-address. Say your local server has IP 172.16.10.1 and the 
>>central Hobbit server is 10.0.100.200, then you should use the options

>>
>> --listen=127.0.0.1 
>>
>>for hobbitd, and 
>>
>> --listen=172.16.10.1 --bbdisplay=127.0.0.1,10.0.100.200
>> 
>>for bbproxy.
>>
>>
>>Regards,
>>Henrik
>>
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