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

[Paul Jochum]

On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Josh Luthman
<josh at imaginenetworksllc.com>wrote:

> 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
>>
>
> Hi Josh:

Yes, it would.  I am just not sure if the firewalls/port locking/and any
other security out corporate internet providers will allow me to properly
communicate with the second server, which I plan to put outside of our
network (the clients are all in the secure network).  It will be a few more
weeks before I will have access to the server outside of our network, so I
was looking at alternatives.

thanks,

Paul
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