On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 10:39:28AM -0400, Sean R. Clark wrote:
I have three servers
tools-www-01 (hobbitd server, BBDISPLAY BBNET BBPAGER) tools-pol-03 (Big Brother BBNET) tools-pol-04 (Big Brother BBNET)
First, mixing Hobbit and BB network test tools does complicate things. There are quite a few settings in the bb-hosts file that the BB servers ignore - including the NET:foo setting.
on tools-www-01 I have several hosts that are failing the conn test from tools-www-01 and paging me the problem is, tools-www-01 should not be testing these hosts from my understanding of the tags in the bb-hosts file
bb-hosts on tools-www-01:
10.10.9.9 tools-www-01.domain.com # BBDISPLAY BBNET BBPAGER NET:tools-pol-03.domain.com 10.10.10.10 hostname-prov-db-02.domain.com # NET:tools-pol-04.domain.com
Make sure you have BBLOCATION set in the hobbitserver.cfg file on your Hobbit server (tools-www-01). If this isn't set, it will ignore all of the NET:foo settings in bb-hosts. On the other hand, when BBLOCATION is set Hobbit will test ONLY those hosts that have a matching NET: setting.
Your two Big Brother servers just ignore the NET: setting in bb-hosts, so they will test whatever hosts are listed in the bb-hosts file. Had they been running Hobbit, you would have set BBLOCATION=tools-pol-03.domain.com or BBLOCATION=tools-pol-04.domain.com in their hobbitserver.cfg file.
Regards, Henrik