[hobbit] BBWin bbd column

Don Munyak don.munyak at gmail.com
Mon Jan 29 21:15:08 CET 2007


On 1/26/07, Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 04:27:41PM -0500, Don Munyak wrote:
> > I have successfully installed and configured bbwin 0.9 on a windows
> > client. My question is about bbd.
> >
> > >From docs.. "The bbd column shows the status of the Hobbit or Big
> > Brother service on the host. "
> >
> > Since bbd refers to a host installed agent, which is not part of
> > bbwin, how do I disable this in hobbit-server for a given windows
> > host.
>
> "bbd" is a network test, probing port 1984 on the host - this port is
> only available on the Hobbit server itself.
>
> If you have it listed for a Windows client - with a red/yellow/green
> icon, not just the "there's-no-such-test" dash - then you should remove
> the "bbd" tag from the bb-hosts entry for your Windows host. And run
>    bb 127.0.0.1 "drop WINDOWSHOSTNAME bbd"
> to eliminate the bogus status.
>
>
> Henrik

I hate to seem thick, but I am having trouble with your suggestion.
Before posting I spent most of the day trying to figure this out.

>From the hobbit server, I am logged in as user hobbit I tried the
following several methods.
--admin-senders=127.0.0.1 is in hobbitlaunch.cfg
I have tried with both (.) and (,) in FQDN

*******
$ $bb 127.0.0.1 drop p0054.pmg.local bbd
127.0.0.1: not found

$ $bb 127.0.0.1 "drop p0054.pmg.local bbd"
127.0.0.1: not found

$ bb 127.0.0.1 "drop p0054.pmg.local bbd"
bb: not found

$ $bb --debug 127.0.0.1 "drop p0054.pmg.local bbd"
--debug: not found

$ $bb debug 127.0.0.1 "drop p0054.pmg.local bbd"
debug: not found

$ $bb $bbdisp drop p0054.pmg.local bbd
drop: not found

$ $bb $bbdisp "drop p0054.pmg.local bbd"
drop p0054.pmg.local.bbd: not found

$ $bb --debug $BBDISP "drop p0054,pmg,local bbd"
--debug: not found

$ $bb $BBDISP "drop p0054,pmg,local bbd"
drop p0054,pmg,local bbd: not found

$ $bb -debug $BBDISP "drop p0054,pmg,local bbd"
-debug: not found

$ $bb debug $BBDISP "drop p0054,pmg,local bbd"
debug: not found

>From windows client with bbwin

*******
>From the windows client
c:\program files\bbwin\bin> bbwincmd.exe 192.168.222.62:1984 drop
p0054.pmg.local bbd

No error message on client
Error message on server in /var/log/hobbit/hobbitd.log

2007-01-29 13:05:36 Refused message from 192.168.222.61: drop
p0054,pmg,local bbd

*******

What as I doing wrong?
Thanks

~Don



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