[hobbit] Two BBDisplays, one collaboration

5 Nov 2007

      Do you have the same bb-hosts on each server?  You might check the
ghosts report.

From: Josh Luthman [mailto:josh at imaginenetworksllc.com] 
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 12:04 PM
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 &lt;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 &lt;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

	 &lt;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
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