big brother replacement

That would be relative to Hobbit's bbtest I believe - someone correct me if
I'm wrong, I'm just guessing here!

I don't see any reason to think that script wouldn't work with some variable
changes like BBNET=`$GREP BBNET $BBHOSTS | $GREP "^[0-9]" | $GREP -v "^\#"`
but I am not an expert by any means!

Getting back to the version 3.3 - after 1.9btf Quest starting selling the
product.  I don't know the exact history behind it but 1.9btf is what you
get without paying for anything.  I have worked with and continue to monitor
a network with 3.1 or 3.2 (they decided to revert from 3.3 as it looks quite
a bit different on the BBDISPLAY) and I honestly don't see what they've
changed between 1.9 and 3.2.  Most of the features of BB I heard of or read
were not only already in Hobbit but were even better then what I had heard.
Not to mention the dozens of BB scripts that can be relatively painless to
migrate.

Josh

On 11/1/07, Sloan <user-b1d2c84d244b@xymon.invalid> wrote:

Well, bb being somewhat modular, there are 3 components: BBNET, BBPAGER,
BBDISPLAY

BBNET is the component of bb that tests the network
services/connectivity on the remote hosts.

Joe

Josh Luthman wrote:

I see now - you've a redundant BBNET.  I haven't used BB in several
weeks and I never got really complex with it - a lot of ping tests was
what I needed out of it.  Can you explain what BBNET is?

On 11/1/07, *Sloan* <user-b1d2c84d244b@xymon.invalid <mailto:user-b1d2c84d244b@xymon.invalid>> wrote:

    Josh Luthman wrote:

I see what you're saying, but you still have to manually specify
which server you're connecting to.  If the bb1.domain.tld can not
be
reached the techs have to manually enter bb2.domain.tld - correct?

    Well, no need to enter anything manually. We have on each big
brother
    server a page with links to all the other bb servers, and I'm sure
the
    support folks have links bookmarked, so if the DC1 data center is
    down, then instead of clicking on e.g. dc1bbdata, they'd click on
    dc2bbdata. Normally the 2 bb display servers in each pair provide an
    identical view, so this only matters in the event of an outage.

I know of several BB ext scripts that work perfectly with Hobbit
and
even more then just needed a small weak.  Would you be able to
post
the entire ext script?  Hopefully Henrik is willing to answer your
$64 question =)

    Sure, I can post the entire script - it's in the attachment -

    Joe


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