how to split xymon display and xymon network test servers
All, I'm somewhat embarrassed to say that after all this time using Xymon (and Hobbit and BB before that) I did not realize until today that Xymon does not use the keywords BBDISPLAY, BBNET and BBPAGER. So, now I have a need to split BBNET from the others and have been looking at the email archives and man pages but have found no explanation of how to do it.
Note I'm still on Xymon 4.2.3.
All I need is a pointer to instructions for how to configure what would be the BBNET server. The hobbitserver.cfg file talks about 'this server', but the variables there seem to be explicitly talking about the display server, so I'm confused. I know I need to run bbtest-net on the network test server, but how do I get it to send data to the display server?
Thanks, Steve Holmes ITaP/ITSO/Unix Systems Administration Purdue University
Den 08-03-2011 19:33, Steve Holmes skrev:
I'm somewhat embarrassed to say that after all this time using Xymon (and Hobbit and BB before that) I did not realize until today that Xymon does not use the keywords BBDISPLAY, BBNET and BBPAGER. So, now I have a need to split BBNET from the others and have been looking at the email archives and man pages but have found no explanation of how to do it.
Note I'm still on Xymon 4.2.3.
Setup the server as a normal Xymon server, then disable all tasks in tasks.cfg / hobbitlaunch.cfg except the network test.
Note that by default it has a "NEEDS hobbitd" setting - you must remove this when you disable the "hobbitd" task, or the network tests won't run.
And of course, configure your Xymon server in xymonserver.cfg / hobbitserver.cfg .
Regards, Henrik
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 4:09 PM, Henrik Størner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:
Den 08-03-2011 19:33, Steve Holmes skrev:
I'm somewhat embarrassed to say that after all this time using Xymon
(and Hobbit and BB before that) I did not realize until today that Xymon does not use the keywords BBDISPLAY, BBNET and BBPAGER. So, now I have a need to split BBNET from the others and have been looking at the email archives and man pages but have found no explanation of how to do it.
Note I'm still on Xymon 4.2.3.
Setup the server as a normal Xymon server, then disable all tasks in tasks.cfg / hobbitlaunch.cfg except the network test.
Note that by default it has a "NEEDS hobbitd" setting - you must remove this when you disable the "hobbitd" task, or the network tests won't run.
And of course, configure your Xymon server in xymonserver.cfg / hobbitserver.cfg .
Regards, Henrik
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Thanks Ralph and Henrik. It is almost working. I have made all the changes you have suggested and the only problem left is that the main display server, which is also the network tester for most clients, is still trying to ping the hosts in the BBLOCATION which have a NET:zone tag on the bb-hosts line. So the conn test is cycling from green (when tested from within the zone) to red (when tested from the public side. Shouldn't the display server not try to ping (or ssh, telnet, etc.) any of the hosts with a NET: tag? Or does the display server also need a BBLOCATION set for it (say 'public')? But then I would have to add NET:public to all of the other clients, right?
Thanks, Steve
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Den 09-03-2011 17:36, Steve Holmes skrev:
Setup the server as a normal Xymon server, then disable all tasks in tasks.cfg / hobbitlaunch.cfg except the network test.Thanks Ralph and Henrik. It is almost working. I have made all the changes you have suggested and the only problem left is that the main display server, which is also the network tester for most clients, is still trying to ping the hosts in the BBLOCATION which have a NET:zone tag on the bb-hosts line. So the conn test is cycling from green (when tested from within the zone) to red (when tested from the public side. Shouldn't the display server not try to ping (or ssh, telnet, etc.) any of the hosts with a NET: tag? Or does the display server also need a BBLOCATION set for it (say 'public')? But then I would have to add NET:public to all of the other clients, right?
Set "BBLOCATION=public" for the main display server, then add "--test-untagged" to the bbtest-net command line ONLY on this (the main) server. Then it will only test those servers that either have a "NET:public" setting in bb-hosts, OR no "NET:..." at all.
Regards, Henrik
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