Hi,

what do you think about increasing the value of MAX_SERVERS from 3 to 5 in bbproxy.c ? What kind of impact can we expect ? If you don't recommend to increase this can we run chained bbproxy ?

I don't think the "3" is some sort of magical number, so the code wouldn't need any major changes to accomodate a larger number of destination.

However, you have to consider the time it takes to send data to so many destinations: Xymonproxy needs to connect to each one of these and transmit the data, so if you have a large installation (and I guess you do, if you need to distribute the data to so many Xymon servers) then that may become an issue and you'll start to see the queue-time in xymonproxy rising, and perhaps clients starting to drop data because they cannot connect to the proxy.

Another point about bbproxy. You recommend to do this config : [bbproxy] ENVFILE /opt/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver-proxy.cfg CMD $BBHOME/bin/bbproxy --hobbitd --bbdisplay=IP1,IP2,IP3 --report=$MACHINE.bbproxy --no-daemon --pidfile=$BBSERVERLOGS/bbproxy.pid --listen=IP0 LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/bbproxy.log

and not this one :

[bbproxy] ENVFILE /opt/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver-proxy.cfg CMD $BBHOME/bin/bbproxy --hobbitd --bbdisplay=127.0.0.1:1985,127.0.0.1:1986,127.0.0.1 --report=$MACHINE.bbproxy --no-daemon --pidfile=$BBSERVERLOGS/bbproxy.pid --listen=IP0:1984 LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/bbproxy.log

[bbproxyFORWARDER] ENVFILE /opt/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver-proxy.cfg CMD $BBHOME/bin/bbproxy --hobbitd --bbdisplay=IP1 --no-daemon --pidfile=$BBSERVERLOGS/bbproxyFORWARDER.pid --listen=127.0.0.1:1985 LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/bbproxyFORWARDER.log

[bbproxyDEV] ENVFILE /opt/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver-proxy.cfg CMD $BBHOME/bin/bbproxy --hobbitd --bbdisplay=IP2 --no-daemon --pidfile=$BBSERVERLOGS/bbproxyINOFYS.pid --listen=127.0.0.1:1986 LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/bbproxyINFOSYS.log

You have different "listen" adresses for the three proxies. Then you do need to run them as three separate instances.

Regards, Henrik