Question about Server Status Forwarding
We are starting to deploy multiple "collector" servers. What we want is to have Hobbit Server A collect from it's local group, Server B to collect from its local group, and Server C to collect for its local group. (By local group, I mean IP address and physical location space).
Then we want to have Server A and Server C send the status messages that they have collected to Server B.
I THOUGHT all that needed to be done was to put in the following:
[snip from hobbitserver.cfg on Server A]
BBDISP="0.0.0.0" # IP of a single hobbit/bbd server BBDISPLAYS="<Server A IP>,<Server B IP>" # IP of multiple hobbit/bbd servers. If used, BBDISP must be 0.0.0.0
However, it appears that all the entries that are being forwarded are coming in as ghosts. Is there something else I need to do on ServerB? Or on the client side? Should I be using BB-proxy? There isn't any firewall or proxying between the groups.
Dave
-- David S. Morgan CISSP, CCNP aka: captkras at gmail.com
"When the Winds of Change Blow Hard Enough, the Most trivial of things can turn into deadly projectiles"
If they are coming up as ghosts, then you need to make sure there is an entry in your bb-hosts file with the same hostname as being reported in the ghost report or a CLIENT tag on the bb-hosts line you have for this server.
.....Bruce
Bruce White Senior Enterprise Systems Engineer | Phone: 630-671-5169 | Fax: 630-893-1648 | bewhite at fellowes.com | http://www.fellowes.com/ Disclaimer: The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. Thank you. Fellowes, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: David Morgan [mailto:captkras at gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 8:39 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] Question about Server Status Forwarding
We are starting to deploy multiple "collector" servers. What we want is to have Hobbit Server A collect from it's local group, Server B to collect from its local group, and Server C to collect for its local group. (By local group, I mean IP address and physical location space).
Then we want to have Server A and Server C send the status messages that they have collected to Server B.
I THOUGHT all that needed to be done was to put in the following:
[snip from hobbitserver.cfg on Server A]
BBDISP="0.0.0.0" # IP of a single hobbit/bbd server BBDISPLAYS="<Server A IP>,<Server B IP>" # IP of multiple hobbit/bbd servers. If used, BBDISP must be 0.0.0.0
However, it appears that all the entries that are being forwarded are coming in as ghosts. Is there something else I need to do on ServerB? Or on the client side? Should I be using BB-proxy? There isn't any firewall or proxying between the groups.
Dave
-- David S. Morgan CISSP, CCNP aka: captkras at gmail.com
"When the Winds of Change Blow Hard Enough, the Most trivial of things can turn into deadly projectiles"
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Yep entries in the bb-host file. Going to try restarting server process
On May 10, 2010 6:26 PM, "White, Bruce" <bewhite at fellowes.com> wrote:
If they are coming up as ghosts, then you need to make sure there is an entry in your bb-hosts file with the same hostname as being reported in the ghost report or a CLIENT tag on the bb-hosts line you have for this server.
.....Bruce
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I just confirmed that on the server that has the ghost entries, they are in the bb-host file.
Not sure what else to check. I tried restarting the hobbit/xymon service, but still have the ghost entries.
Dave
David Morgan wrote:
Yep entries in the bb-host file. Going to try restarting server process
On May 10, 2010 6:26 PM, "White, Bruce" <bewhite at fellowes.com <mailto:bewhite at fellowes.com>> wrote:
If they are coming up as ghosts, then you need to make sure there is an entry in your bb-hosts file with the same hostname as being reported in the ghost report or a CLIENT tag on the bb-hosts line you have for this server.
.....Bruce
Bruce White Senior Enterprise Systems Engineer | Phone: 630-671-5169 | Fax: 630-893-1648 | bewhite at fellowes.com <mailto:bewhite at fellowes.com> | http://www.fellowes.com/
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It LOOKS like it is the local systems that are reporting into Server B are most of the ghost clients. Not sure if there is something on that system that I should also set.
Dave
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 8:56 PM, David Morgan <captkras at gmail.com> wrote:
I just confirmed that on the server that has the ghost entries, they are in the bb-host file.
Not sure what else to check. I tried restarting the hobbit/xymon service, but still have the ghost entries.
Dave
David Morgan wrote:
Yep entries in the bb-host file. Going to try restarting server process
On May 10, 2010 6:26 PM, "White, Bruce" <bewhite at fellowes.com <mailto:bewhite at fellowes.com>> wrote:
If they are coming up as ghosts, then you need to make sure there is an entry in your bb-hosts file with the same hostname as being reported in the ghost report or a CLIENT tag on the bb-hosts line you have for this server.
.....Bruce
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Does ServerB have a fully populated bb-hosts file?
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 10:02 AM, David Morgan <captkras at gmail.com> wrote:
It LOOKS like it is the local systems that are reporting into Server B are most of the ghost clients. Not sure if there is something on that system that I should also set.
Dave
On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 8:56 PM, David Morgan <captkras at gmail.com> wrote:
I just confirmed that on the server that has the ghost entries, they are in the bb-host file.
Not sure what else to check. I tried restarting the hobbit/xymon service, but still have the ghost entries.
Dave
David Morgan wrote:
Yep entries in the bb-host file. Going to try restarting server process
On May 10, 2010 6:26 PM, "White, Bruce" <bewhite at fellowes.com <mailto:bewhite at fellowes.com>> wrote:
If they are coming up as ghosts, then you need to make sure there is an entry in your bb-hosts file with the same hostname as being reported in the ghost report or a CLIENT tag on the bb-hosts line you have for this server.
.....Bruce
Bruce White Senior Enterprise Systems Engineer | Phone: 630-671-5169 | Fax: 630-893-1648 | bewhite at fellowes.com <mailto:bewhite at fellowes.com> | http://www.fellowes.com/ Disclaimer: The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. Thank you. Fellowes, Inc.
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Yep. That's what's driving me bugy
On May 11, 2010 12:53 PM, "Patrick Nixon" <pnixon at gmail.com> wrote:
Does ServerB have a fully populated bb-hosts file?
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 10:02 AM, David Morgan <captkras at gmail.com> wrote:
It LOOKS like it is th...
David,
The names in the bb-hosts file match exactly (capitalization counts!) the names reported in the ghost client report?
.....Bruce
Bruce White Senior Enterprise Systems Engineer | Phone: 630-671-5169 | Fax: 630-893-1648 | bewhite at fellowes.com | http://www.fellowes.com/ Disclaimer: The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. Thank you. Fellowes, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: David Morgan [mailto:captkras at gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 7:56 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Question about Server Status Forwarding
I just confirmed that on the server that has the ghost entries, they are
in the bb-host file.
Not sure what else to check. I tried restarting the hobbit/xymon service, but still have the ghost entries.
Dave
David Morgan wrote:
Yep entries in the bb-host file. Going to try restarting server
process
On May 10, 2010 6:26 PM, "White, Bruce" <bewhite at fellowes.com <mailto:bewhite at fellowes.com>> wrote:
If they are coming up as ghosts, then you need to make sure there is
an
entry in your bb-hosts file with the same hostname as being reported in the ghost report or a CLIENT tag on the bb-hosts line you have for this server.
.....Bruce
Bruce White Senior Enterprise Systems Engineer | Phone: 630-671-5169 | Fax: 630-893-1648 | bewhite at fellowes.com <mailto:bewhite at fellowes.com> | http://www.fellowes.com/
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That's what I am thinking. We had a couple of people working on the file and have a feeling something is screwey
On May 11, 2010 1:30 PM, "White, Bruce" <bewhite at fellowes.com> wrote:
David,
The names in the bb-hosts file match exactly (capitalization counts!) the names reported in the ghost client report?
.....Bruce
Bruce White Senior Enterprise Systems Engineer | Phone: 630-671-5169 | Fax: 630-893-1648 | bewhite at fellowes.com | http://www.fellowes.com/
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From: David Morgan [mailto:captkras at gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 7:56 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Question about Server Status Forwarding
I just confirmed that on the server t...
I think I have it fixed. We had a number of mis-configured clients, so that is what was causing the screwey behavior. I rebuilt the servers and the bb-host files from scratch and have verified that the servers are checking into the right xymon server.
Will update the thread once I have gotten the forwarding done.
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 1:32 PM, David Morgan <captkras at gmail.com> wrote:
That's what I am thinking. We had a couple of people working on the file and have a feeling something is screwey
On May 11, 2010 1:30 PM, "White, Bruce" <bewhite at fellowes.com> wrote:
David,
The names in the bb-hosts file match exactly (capitalization counts!) the names reported in the ghost client report?
.....Bruce
Bruce White Senior Enterprise Systems Engineer | Phone: 630-671-5169 | Fax: 630-893-1648 | bewhite at fellowes.com | http://www.fellowes.com/
Disclaimer: The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and p...
From: David Morgan [mailto:captkras at gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 7:56 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Question about Server Status Forwarding
I just confirmed that on the server t...
-- David S. Morgan CISSP, CCNP aka: captkras at gmail.com
"When the Winds of Change Blow Hard Enough, the Most trivial of things can turn into deadly projectiles"
On Monday, 10 May 2010 14:39:22 David Morgan wrote:
We are starting to deploy multiple "collector" servers. What we want is to have Hobbit Server A collect from it's local group, Server B to collect from its local group, and Server C to collect for its local group. (By local group, I mean IP address and physical location space).
Then we want to have Server A and Server C send the status messages that they have collected to Server B.
I THOUGHT all that needed to be done was to put in the following:
[snip from hobbitserver.cfg on Server A]
BBDISP="0.0.0.0" # IP of a single hobbit/bbd server BBDISPLAYS="<Server A IP>,<Server B IP>" # IP of multiple hobbit/bbd servers. If used, BBDISP must be 0.0.0.0
These settings are of interest to client parts of xymon, in other words, components which run tests from this server (such as the bbnet task, the local client etc.), and send data to hobbitd. This does not result in hobbitd on ServerA sending any data it receives (e.g. from clients) to any of these IP addresses (ServerB).
Please see the coverage of this variable in 'man hobbitserver.cfg'.
However, it appears that all the entries that are being forwarded are coming in as ghosts. Is there something else I need to do on ServerB?
ServerB needs to have entries in its bb-hosts file for all the hosts being monitored by ServerA and ServerC. You probably want to make use of the NET tag, and set BBLOCATION accordingly on each of the Xymon servers, so that the correct servers test the correct hosts, while only needing to maintain a single bb-hosts file (which should be kept in sync across all 3 servers).
Or on the client side? Should I be using BB-proxy?
Between these two options, I would use bb-proxy, so that client data sent by monitored hosts is relayed to your central server. However, if you want to have the extra maintenance overhead in return for still receiving client data in case of a failure of the monitoring server, you could set BBDISPLAYS on all the clients.
To assist in resolving this further, you may want to include some more relevant information. For example, follow a host monitored by ServerA, provide:
The entry in ServerA's bb-hosts for this host The entry in ServerB's bb-hosts for this host The BBDISP/BBDISPLAYS value from this host's client config The bbproxy task from ServerA if relevant
Regards, Buchan
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