Tom, Thanks for the confirmation. It indeed does work. I installed BB1.9e on my Hobbit server and am getting the info I wanted.
Now the $64k question is can I get BB-Central to work with my Hobbit Server/BB1.9 Client install. I fear I need to have BB-Server running, but we shall see unless someone can spare me the pain of learning this on my own. Thanks, Tim
-----Original Message----- From: Tom Georgoulias [mailto:tgeorgoulias at mcclatchy.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 7:06 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] completely confused
Tim Rotunda wrote:
I will make the assumption here that BB1.9e will work for my needs here if I decide not to make the port?
You are correct, the client bb 1.9e will do client OS monitoring for parameters like CPU load average, disk utilization, processes, and a couple others. You can add even more functional tests by using add-on scripts from deadcat.net to collect data for in areas like vmstat, memory, etc.
Tom
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Tim Rotunda wrote:
Now the $64k question is can I get BB-Central to work with my Hobbit Server/BB1.9 Client install. I fear I need to have BB-Server running, but we shall see unless someone can spare me the pain of learning this on my own.
I think a bunch of us were hoping to learn from you. ;)
Tom
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 10:52:27AM -0600, Tim Rotunda wrote:
Now the $64k question is can I get BB-Central to work with my Hobbit Server/BB1.9 Client install. I fear I need to have BB-Server running, but we shall see unless someone can spare me the pain of learning this on my own.
I've had a look at bb-central today, and it doesn't seem terribly difficult to make it work with Hobbit.
There are two issues that I've found so far.
bb-central reads the bbsys.sh and bbdef.sh files from BB to pick up the locations of various tools. This is easily handled by having it read hobbitserver.cfg instead - either change bb-central files to read that file, or setup a symlink from bbdef.sh and bbsys.sh to hobbitserver.cfg.
bb-central uses the "bbnet" utility from BB to check if a server is up before it starts connecting to it with ssh. There is no bbnet utility included with Hobbit, so some replacement for that must be found.
Other than that, it seems that bb-central uses the normal "bb" tool to send in status reports for the hosts it monitors, and that should work without any problems.
I'll play around with it a bit more and see if I can get it running. I think I may have to setup a page on how to port popular BB server-side extensions to Hobbit - bb-central could be the first item on that page.
Regards, Henrik
On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 09:46:32PM +0100, Henrik Stoerner wrote: [about BB-central]
I'll play around with it a bit more and see if I can get it running.
Well, this one has me stumped.
Getting it to run was pretty easy, but it appears to be rather broken.
The main script bb-central.pl generates bb-central.sh, which has the commands needed to login to a remote system via ssh and retrieve data. The only problem is that it generates an ssh command that just logs in; then it sits there in an interactive session and does nothing.
As far as I can see, the perl-script should add the commands needed to collect the data, but it doesn't. I even tried setting it up to run under a BB client, and it gives me the same problem.
I think I'll post to the BB list and see if the author has some idea about what's going on.
Henrik
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