I got it working. The key was to include in client's (papp01) Hobbit bb-hosts the hostname of the server (papp01) where the BEA Weblogic instance resides, so I have the following in the client's (papp01) Hobbit's bb-hosts:

Servers

144.163.58.57 papp01 # ssh ntp

BEA Servers

0.0.0.0 prdAcrm1_01 # noconn nodisp beastat 0.0.0.0 prdAcrm1_01.crmServer # noconn beaping

And all of the above also in the Hobbit Server's bb-hosts

Not sure if commenting out the BBVAR check is the expected way to get it past the missing BBVAR check, but it works.

Thanks Doug