hobbit proxy config

5 Nov 2008

      I am using this server as a bbproxy and for bbnet for internal
network. Does my configuration look kosher?
Also I pasted some logs, not sure if I should ignore them
bash-3.00# cat /home/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitlaunch.cfg

The hobbitlaunch.cfg file is loaded by "hobbitlaunch".
It controls which of the Hobbit modules to run, how often, and
with which parameters, options and environment variables.

This is the main Hobbit daemon. This must be running on at least
one server in your setup. If you are setting up a server to do
just network tests or run bbproxy, it is OK to disable this (then
you also need to remove the "NEEDS hobbitd" lines for the tasks
you want to run).
[hobbitd]
DISABLED
ENVFILE /home/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
CMD hobbitd --pidfile=$BBSERVERLOGS/hobbitd.pid
--restart=$BBTMP/hobbitd.chk --checkpoint-file=$BBTMP/hobbitd.chk
--checkpoint-interval=600 --log=$BBSERVERLOGS/hobbitd.log
--admin-senders=127.0.0.1,$BBSERVERIP --store-clientlogs=!msgs
"bbstatus" saves status-logs in text- and html-format, like the old
Big Brother
daemon does. Unless you are using add-ons that directly access the
log-files, you
will not need to run this module, and it is recommended that you
keep it disabled
since storing the raw logs on disk can cause a significant load on
your server.
[bbstatus]
DISABLED
ENVFILE /home/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
NEEDS hobbitd
CMD hobbitd_channel --channel=status --log=$BBSERVERLOGS/status.log
hobbitd_filestore --status --html
"bbhistory" keeps track of the status changes that happen, in a manner that is
compatible with the Big Brother history logs. You probably do want
to run this.
[bbhistory]
DISABLED
ENVFILE /home/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
NEEDS hobbitd
CMD hobbitd_channel --channel=stachg --log=$BBSERVERLOGS/history.log
hobbitd_history
"hostdata" stores the Hobbit client messages on disk when some
status for a host
changes. This lets you access a lot of data collected from a host
around the time
when a problem occurred. However, it may use a significant amount of
disk space
if you have lots of Hobbit clients.
Note: The --store-clientlogs option for the [hobbitd] provides control over
which status-changes will cause a client message to be stored.
[hostdata]
DISABLED
ENVFILE /home/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
NEEDS hobbitd
CMD hobbitd_channel --channel=clichg --log=$BBSERVERLOGS/hostdata.log
hobbitd_hostdata
"bbdata" saves information sent using the BB "data" protocol, like
the old Big Brother
daemon does. Unless you are using add-ons that directly access the
data-files, you
will not need to run this module, and it is recommended that you
keep it disabled
since storing the raw data on disk can cause a significant load on
your BB server.
RRD graphs uses data-files, but since RRD is handled by the
hobbitd_rrd module, you do
not need to run the "bbdata" module to get RRD graphs.
[bbdata]
DISABLED
ENVFILE /home/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
NEEDS hobbitd
CMD hobbitd_channel --channel=data   --log=$BBSERVERLOGS/data.log
hobbitd_filestore --data
"bbnotes" saves web note-files, that are sent using the BB "notes"
protocol. This is
disabled by default; if you use the BB "notes" protocol, then you
should enable this.
[bbnotes]
DISABLED
ENVFILE /home/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
NEEDS hobbitd
CMD hobbitd_channel --channel=notes  --log=$BBSERVERLOGS/notes.log
hobbitd_filestore --notes
"bbenadis" updates the files used to indicate that a host or test
has been enabled or disabled.
Unless you are running server side scripts that look at these files,
you do not need this.
[bbenadis]
DISABLED
ENVFILE /home/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
NEEDS hobbitd
CMD hobbitd_channel --channel=enadis --log=$BBSERVERLOGS/enadis.log
hobbitd_filestore --enadis
"bbpage" sends out alerts. Note that this module is NOT compatible
with the old Big Brother
system - it uses a different configuration file to determine how
alerts get sent. If you want
alerts to go out via pager, e-mail or some other means, then you
must run this module.
[bbpage]
DISABLED
ENVFILE /home/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
NEEDS hobbitd
CMD hobbitd_channel --channel=page  --log=$BBSERVERLOGS/page.log
hobbitd_alert --checkpoint-file=$BBTMP/alert.chk
--checkpoint-interval=600
"rrdstatus" updates RRD files with information that arrives as
"status" messages.
If you want RRD graphs of your monitoring data, then you want to run this.
[rrdstatus]
DISABLED
ENVFILE /home/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
NEEDS hobbitd
CMD hobbitd_channel --channel=status
--log=$BBSERVERLOGS/rrd-status.log hobbitd_rrd --rrddir=$BBVAR/rrd
"rrddata" updates RRD files with information that arrives as "data" messages.
If you want RRD graphs of your monitoring BB data, then you want to run this.
[rrddata]
DISABLED
ENVFILE /home/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
NEEDS hobbitd
CMD hobbitd_channel --channel=data   --log=$BBSERVERLOGS/rrd-data.log
hobbitd_rrd --rrddir=$BBVAR/rrd
The client back-end module. You need this if you are running the
Hobbit client on any system.
[clientdata]
ENVFILE /home/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
CMD hobbitd_channel --channel=client
--log=$BBSERVERLOGS/clientdata.log hobbitd_client
"bbproxy" is the Hobbit proxy server that allows you to forward
status messages
from a protected network to your Hobbit server. It is not enabled by default,
since it would conflict with the hobbitd task.
If you need to run this, then disabled hobbitd and the hobbitd-modules
above, then enable this. Make sure you enter the IP-address of your
Hobbit server in the command-line, so that the proxy knows where to forward
status messages.
[bbproxy]
ENVFILE /home/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
CMD $BBHOME/bin/bbproxy --hobbitd --bbdisplay=28.7.0.3
--report=$MACHINE.bbproxy --no-daemon
--pidfile=$BBSERVERLOGS/bbproxy.pid
LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/bbproxy.log
"hobbitfetch" is used when you have clients that cannot connect to
your Hobbit server,
but the Hobbit server can connect to the client. Normally the
clients will initiate
a connection to the Hobbit server to deliver the data they collect,
but this is
forbidden in some firewall setups. By enabling the hobbitfetch task,
hosts that have
the "pulldata" tag in the bb-hosts file will be polled by
hobbitfetch for their data.

NOTE: On the clients you must enable the "msgcache" task, since this is what
hobbitfetch is talking to.
[hobbitfetch]
DISABLED
ENVFILE /home/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
CMD $BBHOME/bin/hobbitfetch --server=YOUR.HOBBIT.SERVER.IP
--no-daemon --pidfile=$BBSERVERLOGS/hobbitfetch.pid
LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/hobbitfetch.log
"bbdisplay" runs the bbgen tool to generate the Hobbit webpages from
the status information that
has been received. Big Brother updated the webpages once every 5
minutes. The default here is to
run it every minute for faster updates, but you can change it if you
have a highly loaded server
and dont need updates that often.
[bbdisplay]
DISABLED
ENVFILE /home/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
NEEDS hobbitd
GROUP generators
CMD bbgen $BBGENOPTS --report
LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/bb-display.log
INTERVAL 1m
bbcombotest is an extension script for the Hobbit display server. It generates
status messages that are combined from the status of one or more
normal statuses.
It is controlled via the bbcombotest.cfg file.
[bbcombotest]
DISABLED
ENVFILE /home/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
NEEDS hobbitd
CMD $BBHOME/bin/bbcombotest
LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/bbcombotest.log
INTERVAL 5m
"bbnet" runs the bbtest-net tool to perform the network based tests

i.e. http, smtp, ssh, dns and

all of the various network protocols we need to test.
[bbnet]
ENVFILE /home/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
NEEDS bbproxy
CMD bbtest-net --report --ping --checkresponse
LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/bb-network.log
INTERVAL 5m
"bbretest" picks up the tests that the normal network test consider
"failed", and re-does those
tests more often. This enables Big Brother to pick up a recovered
network service faster than
if it were tested only by the "bbnet" task (which only runs every 5
minutes). So if you have
servers with very high availability guarantees, running this task
will make your availability
reports look much better.
[bbretest]
ENVFILE /home/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
NEEDS bbproxy
CMD $BBHOME/ext/bbretest-net.sh
LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/bb-retest.log
INTERVAL 1m
"hobbitclient" runs the Hobbit client. The client is installed automatically
when you install a Hobbit server (presumably, you do want to monitor the
Hobbit server ?), but there's no need to have two hobbitlaunch instances
running at the same time. So we'll just run it from here.
Note: If you are using another client package, you should disable this one.
[hobbitclient]
DISABLED
ENVFILE /home/hobbit/client/etc/hobbitclient.cfg
NEEDS hobbitd
CMD /home/hobbit/client/bin/hobbitclient.sh
LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/hobbitclient.log
INTERVAL 5m
bash-3.00# tail /var/log/hobbit/clientdata.log
2008-11-05 11:41:26 Failed to get a message, terminating
2008-11-05 11:41:31 Could not get shm of size 524288: No such file or directory
2008-11-05 11:41:31 Channel not available
2008-11-05 11:41:31 Failed to get a message, terminating
2008-11-05 11:41:36 Could not get shm of size 524288: No such file or directory
2008-11-05 11:41:36 Channel not available
2008-11-05 11:41:36 Failed to get a message, terminating
2008-11-05 11:41:41 Could not get shm of size 524288: No such file or directory
2008-11-05 11:41:41 Channel not available
2008-11-05 11:41:41 Failed to get a message, terminating
bash-3.00# tail /var/log/hobbit/hobbitlaunch.log
2008-11-05 11:31:00 Task clientdata terminated, status 1
2008-11-05 11:31:05 Task clientdata terminated, status 1
2008-11-05 11:31:10 Task clientdata terminated, status 1
2008-11-05 11:31:15 Task clientdata terminated, status 1
2008-11-05 11:41:16 Task clientdata terminated, status 1
2008-11-05 11:41:21 Task clientdata terminated, status 1
2008-11-05 11:41:26 Task clientdata terminated, status 1
2008-11-05 11:41:31 Task clientdata terminated, status 1
2008-11-05 11:41:36 Task clientdata terminated, status 1
2008-11-05 11:41:41 Task clientdata terminated, status 1
bash-3.00# tail /var/log/hobbit/bbproxy.log
2008-11-04 13:35:51 bbproxy version 4.2.0 starting
2008-11-04 13:35:51 Listening on 0.0.0.0:1984
2008-11-04 13:35:51 Sending to BBDISPLAY(s) 28.7.0.3:1984
2008-11-04 13:35:51 Sending to BBPAGER(s) 28.7.0.3:1984
I don't want web for this hobbit proxy server.
All I want it is to do the network tests and receive status from the
hobbit clients on this network.
And send all these status to hobbit server 28.7.0.3
I see sooo many emails on this, which really begs a wiki page on how
to setup a bbproxy.
T.J.? Henrik?
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hobbit proxy config

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The hobbitlaunch.cfg file is loaded by "hobbitlaunch".

It controls which of the Hobbit modules to run, how often, and

with which parameters, options and environment variables.

This is the main Hobbit daemon. This must be running on at least

one server in your setup. If you are setting up a server to do

just network tests or run bbproxy, it is OK to disable this (then

you also need to remove the "NEEDS hobbitd" lines for the tasks

you want to run).

"bbstatus" saves status-logs in text- and html-format, like the old

daemon does. Unless you are using add-ons that directly access the

will not need to run this module, and it is recommended that you

since storing the raw logs on disk can cause a significant load on

"bbhistory" keeps track of the status changes that happen, in a manner that is

compatible with the Big Brother history logs. You probably do want

"hostdata" stores the Hobbit client messages on disk when some

changes. This lets you access a lot of data collected from a host

when a problem occurred. However, it may use a significant amount of

if you have lots of Hobbit clients.

Note: The --store-clientlogs option for the [hobbitd] provides control over

which status-changes will cause a client message to be stored.

"bbdata" saves information sent using the BB "data" protocol, like

daemon does. Unless you are using add-ons that directly access the

will not need to run this module, and it is recommended that you

since storing the raw data on disk can cause a significant load on

RRD graphs uses data-files, but since RRD is handled by the

not need to run the "bbdata" module to get RRD graphs.

"bbnotes" saves web note-files, that are sent using the BB "notes"

disabled by default; if you use the BB "notes" protocol, then you

"bbenadis" updates the files used to indicate that a host or test

Unless you are running server side scripts that look at these files,

"bbpage" sends out alerts. Note that this module is NOT compatible

system - it uses a different configuration file to determine how

alerts to go out via pager, e-mail or some other means, then you

"rrdstatus" updates RRD files with information that arrives as

If you want RRD graphs of your monitoring data, then you want to run this.

"rrddata" updates RRD files with information that arrives as "data" messages.

If you want RRD graphs of your monitoring BB data, then you want to run this.

The client back-end module. You need this if you are running the

"bbproxy" is the Hobbit proxy server that allows you to forward

from a protected network to your Hobbit server. It is not enabled by default,

since it would conflict with the hobbitd task.

If you need to run this, then disabled hobbitd and the hobbitd-modules

above, then enable this. Make sure you enter the IP-address of your

Hobbit server in the command-line, so that the proxy knows where to forward

status messages.

"hobbitfetch" is used when you have clients that cannot connect to

but the Hobbit server can connect to the client. Normally the

a connection to the Hobbit server to deliver the data they collect,

forbidden in some firewall setups. By enabling the hobbitfetch task,

the "pulldata" tag in the bb-hosts file will be polled by

NOTE: On the clients you must enable the "msgcache" task, since this is what

hobbitfetch is talking to.

"bbdisplay" runs the bbgen tool to generate the Hobbit webpages from

has been received. Big Brother updated the webpages once every 5

run it every minute for faster updates, but you can change it if you

and dont need updates that often.

bbcombotest is an extension script for the Hobbit display server. It generates

status messages that are combined from the status of one or more

It is controlled via the bbcombotest.cfg file.

"bbnet" runs the bbtest-net tool to perform the network based tests

all of the various network protocols we need to test.

"bbretest" picks up the tests that the normal network test consider

tests more often. This enables Big Brother to pick up a recovered

if it were tested only by the "bbnet" task (which only runs every 5

servers with very high availability guarantees, running this task

reports look much better.

"hobbitclient" runs the Hobbit client. The client is installed automatically

when you install a Hobbit server (presumably, you do want to monitor the

Hobbit server ?), but there's no need to have two hobbitlaunch instances

running at the same time. So we'll just run it from here.

Note: If you are using another client package, you should disable this one.