[hobbit] Two BBDisplays, one collaboration

Ah. You have a couple of options.

a) configure each client (at a customer location) to send to the local server as well as the main server. This means that your customer clients must all appear in the bb-hosts in your main server, as well as in the bb-hosts for the server at the customer location.

b) (might work) -- you can have the Hobbit server at the customer location send up a summary to your main server. You will get a single dot that shows the overall status of that customer. The dot is linked to the Hobbit page on the remote server. This way you don't have to keep updating your central server as hosts come and go at remote locations.

And you can mix and match these methods.

GLH

From: Josh Luthman [mailto:josh at imaginenetworksllc.com] 
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 1:22 PM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Two BBDisplays, one collaboration


I can't scp the entire host list, nor would I need to - it isn't

going to change and the hosts are not identical.

Let me tell you how the overall picture looks.  We have a main

Hobbit server that monitors our backbone, customers' home routers, WWW servers and things. Now we're adding a Hobbit at a hotel's LAN. The first step was to get Hobbit running there on its own little world and ping the access points. Now the next step, where I'm stuck, is to duplicate the information that is sent from bbtest to the bbdisplay on our company Hobbit.

The hotel's list of hosts is limited - their APs and a couple of

their guest/lobby PCs. Ours needs to have the things it has currently, but another page that includes the hotel's hosts.

Sorry, I know I'm terrible at explaining my own situations =( 

Josh


On 11/5/07, Tod Hansmann <thansmann at directpointe.com> wrote: 

	We just scp the hostlist from one to the others anytime

changes are made. You could probably do this in a cron-job as well.

	Do you have BBLOCATION set?  You shouldn't if you're not

using Net:foo

	Do the displays have the entire bb-hosts file from both?

The bb-gen won't generate pages for any of the hosts it doesn't know about via bb-hosts. Have you verified that hobbit is getting the status messages from one server to the other? Lastly, I'm picking at straws here, but do you have any errors in the bb-display log?

	Tod Hansmann

	Network Engineer

	 

	 <http://www.directpointe.com/>   

	

	From: Josh Luthman [mailto:josh at imaginenetworksllc.com] 
	Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 11:04 AM
	To: hobbit at hswn.dk
	Subject: Re: [hobbit] Two BBDisplays, one collaboration

	 

	Tod,
	
	I've configured it that way and neither of the www pages

have any information (concerning these hosts). I do know that 1984 is "connectable" from the new Hobbit server (tested with nmap). Any other ideas out there? From what little I know about this it seems like this Net option is just an extra step, it doesn't seem required - is this true? What is the simplest way of getting the list of hosts on both bbdisplays? Josh

	On 11/5/07, Tod Hansmann <thansmann at directpointe.com>

wrote:

	So, we have two servers doing tests, and they display

their own tests, and also send alerts to the main display. So the main display is an aggregate of both test servers. This looks to be similar to what you're doing, so I hope that helps put the rest of this info in context.

	This is the testers:

	BBDISP="0.0.0.0 "

	BBDISPLAYS=" 127.0.0.1 <http://127.0.0.1>

ip.of.main.display"

	   ------ more stuff -------

	BBLOCATION="poller1"

	 

	 

	The BBLOCATION is important to the setup.  I'll point

out why in a moment. Also, ip.of.main.display is the same in both configs here.

	This is the main display:

	BBSERVERIP="ip.of.main.display"

	BBDISP="$BBSERVERIP"

	BBDISPLAYS=""

	   ------ more stuff -------

	BBLOCATION="display"

	 

	 

	Now in the bb-hosts file, I have Net:poller1 with all

the hosts poller1 polls, and Net:poller2 with all the hosts poller2 polls. This may not be useful in the setup you're trying to get working, but it can't hurt to include. I think your original config is the one to go with, but I might go with 127.0.0.1 and no spaces. I'm pretty sure the BBDISPLAYS just has bbtest-net send it to everything in that list when it has a status message. Also note that port 1984 will have to be opened appropriately on any firewalls.

	Way more info than you probably need, but I do hope some

of it helps.

	Tod Hansmann

	Network Engineer

	 

	 <http://www.directpointe.com/>   

	

	From: Josh Luthman [mailto: josh at imaginenetworksllc.com]

	Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2007 12:58 PM
	To: hobbit at hswn.dk
	Subject: [hobbit] Two BBDisplays, one collaboration

	 

	What I am trying to do is have two BBDisplay servers.

The first one being our main one - monitors our network equipment and things - and a second one that lives on the customer's network and pings APs, Switches, etc. I have setup this in bb-hosts on the main one: page HIXX Holiday Inn X X group-compress <H3><I>Access Points</I></H3> 1.2.3.4 host.com # noconn group-compress <H3><I>HIDM Hardware</I></H3> 2.3.4.5 host2.com # noconn Reason for the noconn is that these are all private IPs, accessible only by the customer's LAN. These configuration match those of the customer's bb-hosts (with the exception of noconn, of course =) I then went into the customer's server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg and changed it as such: BBDISP=" 0.0.0.0 <http://0.0.0.0> " BBDISPLAYS=" 10.59.1.119,MAINSERVERPUBLIC" I have also tried it without quotes When I set this neither BBDisplay has anything on the www pages, they're completely blank! Once I switch it to BBDISP="$BBSERVERIP" # IP of a single hobbit/bbd server BBDISPLAYS="" It works perfectly fine on the customer's server, but the main one is display blank (obviously =) Please let me know where I went wrong. Thanks in advance! Josh -- Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 Those who don't understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. --- Henry Spencer

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