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I had the wrong address in BBDISP. I suppose we will see what happens now. Thanks for the pointer!
Josh Luthman wrote:
If you want the clients to send their data to the server you need to specify (for Hobbit clients)
BBDISP="74.218.88.184" # IP address of the Hobbit server BBDISPLAYS="" # IP of multiple Hobbit servers. BBDISP must be "0.0.0.0".
/home/hobbitman/client/etc/hobbitclient.cfg
For bbclients (I have no experience with them myself) you simply switch from the old to the new address.
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On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Ryan Novosielski <novosirj at umdnj.edu <mailto:novosirj at umdnj.edu>> wrote:
Yeah, I took a look at that before writing. There's nothing missing that I can see that refers to anything like that. Only think I can think of is that the client piece may not be using the same hostname as my machine. I don't know what xymon does in cases where one is using FQDN and one isn't. My bb-hosts line is:
130.219.34.102 xymon.umdnj.edu <http://xymon.umdnj.edu> # BBDISPLAY bbd ssh !telnet !ftp
So I'm only missing some extraneous stuff, if I compare it to their line. I don't think the CLIENT piece is strictly required. I guess I will re-read the man page for bb-hosts.
Josh Luthman wrote:
Compare the first host voodoo.hswn.dk <http://voodoo.hswn.dk> <http://voodoo.hswn.dk>: http://xymon.com/hobbit/servers/servers.html
With it's bb-host here: http://xymon.com/hobbit-cgi/viewconf.sh
I think that answers your question. Let me know if otherwise.
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"When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however improbable, must be the truth." --- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Ryan Novosielski <novosirj at umdnj.edu <mailto:novosirj at umdnj.edu> <mailto:novosirj at umdnj.edu <mailto:novosirj at umdnj.edu>>> wrote:
One, possibly last, question:
In the process of migrating my bb-hosts file from BigBrother to xymon and duplicating my current BB setup, it appears as if I managed to lose the tests for bbgen, bbtest, hobbitd... maybe another as well. I can't figure out what it is that causes these tests to show up, as I do not believe they were spelled out in the default bb-hosts file. Can anyone point me to either some good docs on that or an answer?
Currently, on the "BBDISPLAY" machine I have bbnet and bbretest disabled. However, stats for these processes do not show up on the "BBNET" machines either (sorry to use BB terminology but it does not appear that xymon has any term to make the description easy). The BBNET machines have hobbitd, bbhistory, bbpage, rrdstatus, rrddata, clientdata, and bbdisplay disabled.
Thanks for any help!
Ryan Novosielski wrote:
Apparently not. :-\
Checking for RRDtool ... RRDtool include- or library-files not found. These are REQUIRED for hobbitd RRDtool can be found at http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~oetiker/webtools/rrdtool/ <http://people.ee.ethz.ch/%7Eoetiker/webtools/rrdtool/> <http://people.ee.ethz.ch/%7Eoetiker/webtools/rrdtool/> If you have RRDtool installed, use the "--rrdinclude DIR" and "--rrdlib DIR" options to configure to specify where they are.
I guess no big deal.
Josh Luthman wrote:
From memory..few years of dust on that...
After you do a ./configure.server it will ask about RRDtool if it can't be found - I would imagine if you just leave it blank it would skip over the RRDtool parts. Also, like you said, ./configure.server --help may answer that better.
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On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 4:36 PM, Ryan Novosielski <novosirj at umdnj.edu <mailto:novosirj at umdnj.edu> <mailto:novosirj at umdnj.edu <mailto:novosirj at umdnj.edu>> <mailto:novosirj at umdnj.edu <mailto:novosirj at umdnj.edu> <mailto:novosirj at umdnj.edu <mailto:novosirj at umdnj.edu>>>> wrote:
Josh Luthman wrote:
Next, my network machines. I don't really want to have to install RRDTool on it. Is that really necessary? Isn't it only used for display, or is it also needed by a machine that only does network testing? It looks like then as far as splitting up which tests run from where, I can use BBLOCATION and NET:$BBLOCATION, but it appears as if this is by host, not by test. Any recommendations? When you say "machines" you're saying it plural - you'll only have to install it on the bbdisplay (what server you query for WWW pages). If you don't want rrdtool you won't have graphs - when you do the configure just say you don't have rrdtool. The bbproxy/net machines have no need for rrdtool. Graphs aren't crucial but they can most certainly help in several cases. Yes, I have two network test machines that do not run the display -- these were that I was talking about. I already have rrdtool on the display machine and the graphs work. I did not know there was a way to say that I don't have rrdtool. I'll look through configure, I suppose, but I didn't see anything like "--without-rrdtool" as is often present in other software.
I know some people have issues using NET: but you might want to read through the archives. From my understanding, it is by host not test as well. Thanks, I'll hunt around.
Lastly, is there any concept of escalation in xymon as there is in BB? I wouldn't necessarily miss it, but I do currently use it. (Escalation is that no one can acknowledge a page in such a way that will keep it from reaching the escalated party, except that person). Maybe look at the critical list of hosts - http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2007/03/msg00315.html Thanks.
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