[hobbit] Clients reporting to both a BB server and Hobbit

[Vernon Everett]

Hi

I never touched the BB-server. (It isn't under my control)
I changed the clients. (A pain if you have many monitored clients)
If you add the Hobbit server to the client bb-hosts file as a display
server, all the nateive and correctly configured tests will start
sending results to the Hobbit server.
Like this.
# cat bb-hosts
192.168.8.15   samwise  # BBDISPLAY BBPAGER          <--- the original
BB server
192.168.8.1    webserve # http://webserve/
192.168.8.2    appserv1 #
192.168.8.3    appserv2 #
192.168.8.4    dbserve  #
192.168.8.6    devserve #
192.168.0.16   frodo    # BBDISPLAY BBPAGER          <--- added by me
(our first hobbit server)
192.168.0.14   shire    # BBDISPLAY BBPAGER          <--- added by me
(our new hobbit server)
(We have 2 hobbit servers because I am busy migrating to a more stable
platform)

All tests that are "native" to BB will start sending results to all
servers with the BBDISPLAY parameter in bb-hosts.

Most of the external tests have this line which sends the status.
    $BB $BBDISP "status $MACHINE.$TEST $COLOR `date` - $STATUS $LINE"

The $BBDISP varaible will be automatically populated with the BBDISPLAY
servers from the bb-hosts file (See above)

The less cleverly written tests might have a line like this.
    $BB 192.168.0.16 "status $MACHINE.$TEST $COLOR `date` - $STATUS
$LINE"
If you want to send you results to a second or even a third server, keep
adding lines.
    $BB 192.168.0.16 "status $MACHINE.$TEST $COLOR `date` - $STATUS
$LINE"
    $BB 192.168.0.14 "status $MACHINE.$TEST $COLOR `date` - $STATUS
$LINE"

This is a cute trick which is useful if you only want to send results to
one hobbit/bb server and not all of them. As in my case, there is a BB
server, which I am not to disrupt.
However, you might also want to limit what gets reported on the
"business user" display, and what gets reported to your own server. 
Run 2 servers, and limit output to the business one, and send the extra
infor to your private one.
It is very useful if you have jumpy non-tech people who phone you every
time ANYTHING goes red. :-)

Hope this helps.

Regards
    Vernon


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-----Original Message-----
From: Kimberly McKinnis [mailto:kmckinnis at macrovision.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, 8 November 2005 10:21 AM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: RE: [hobbit] Clients reporting to both a BB server and Hobbit

:) so my specific question is... to make my clients report to both
servers I only add the hobbit server as a bbrelay in the bb server's
bb-host file? I'm not understanding the steps I need to take to run them
in parallel. At the moment, I have a hobbit server running completely
seperately and just pinging hosts, no clients are reporting to it. 


-----Original Message-----
From: Vernon Everett [mailto:v.everett at afgonline.com.au]
Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 6:02 PM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: RE: [hobbit] Clients reporting to both a BB server and Hobbit

Hi

The short answer is yes.
We have a 3rd party (they provide Dc services) that use Big Brother.
Since I joined the company, I started using Hobbit, but had to do so
without disrupting their Big Brother.
I have also started migrating some of our servers to Hobbit client.

We now have BB-client and Hobbit client running on our servers,
reporting to Hobbit in our offices, and Big Brother server at our data
centre hosts.
It gets a little confusing, but keeps things interesting :-)

Do you have a more specific question?

Regards
    Vernon




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No trees were killed in the creation of this message. However, many
electrons were terribly inconvenienced. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Kimberly McKinnis [mailto:kmckinnis at macrovision.com]
Sent: Tuesday, 8 November 2005 9:42 AM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: [hobbit] Clients reporting to both a BB server and Hobbit

I saw the recent thread regarding using bbproxy to replicate the
display, and would like to do something similar. However, ideally, what
I'd like is to use something like bbrelay to have the clients report to
both hobbit and bb, while I get hobbit fully set up. I know the alert
structure is a little different, and I'd like to have time to tweak
things and such instead of doing an abrupt cutover. Is it possible to
have the clients actually report to both servers, such that both bb and
hobbit will process the data (as bbnets or whatever). I googled hobbit
and bbrelay but didn't come up with too much. Will bbrelay do what I
want, or does it just forward the reports instead of processing it on
both servers? I want BB to remain fully functional for the time being,
as I'm monitoring over 2000 machines with paging and ext and pg scripts
which kick off other things.

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