Further to this, if you want a display server running on the remote sites (in case the WAN goes down for example) then you must setup the secondary hobbit servers to run on localhost and get the proxy to forward to both the main server and the localhost while listening on the secondary server's external ipaddress.
This is what I do on most of our European sites and forward them to the central hub. It means we have the data in two places by default.
The net location tags are very important if doing network tests at the remote sites so that the main server doesn't try testing them as well. I rsync the bb-hosts files from the remote servers with sub bb-host pages on the main server.
Hope this is useful.
Regards, Craig
-----Original Message----- From: Iain Conochie [mailto:iain at shihad.org] Sent: 29 November 2007 09:53 To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Use several Hobbit on different place
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Well, it's me again ;) Maybe someone could show me a step-by-step tutorial because the man page is great but I don't really see what I should do anyway ;) Thanks by advance
OK. I take it you have your main BB server up and running? Good!
Install the hobbit server onto the secondary boxes. Once it is installed
Do not start it!
go into the server/etc/ directory of you new hobbit installation. Edit the file hobbitlaunch.cfg. Look for bbproxy. There you will find these instructions
"bbproxy" is the Hobbit proxy server that allows you to forward status
messages
from a protected network to your Hobbit server. It is not enabled by
default,
since it would conflict with the hobbitd task.
If you need to run this, then disabled hobbitd and the hobbitd-modules
above, then enable this. Make sure you enter the IP-address of your
Hobbit server in the command-line, so that the proxy knows where to
forward
status messages.
Follow them :)
As a side note, do you want the proxy servers to do network tests? If so
then you will want to use the NET:location tag in bb-hosts to seperate the client machines.
Cheers
Iain
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