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
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-- 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