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building bbproxy

list Buchan Milne
Wed, 30 Aug 2006 10:49:09 +0200
Message-Id: <user-f7d805a2ac74@xymon.invalid>

On Wednesday 30 August 2006 10:04, Henrik Stoerner wrote:
On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 09:59:55AM +0200, Buchan Milne wrote:
On Tuesday 29 August 2006 22:15, Henrik Stoerner wrote:
If you're running bbproxy, you should not be running the hobbitd task.
The [hobbitd] task runs ONLY on the real Hobbit server - not on proxy
servers, network testers, clients or any other box.
Hmm, if that's the case, why does hobbitlaunch.cfg have:

[bbnet]
        ENVFILE /usr/lib/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
        NEEDS hobbitd
        CMD bbtest-net --report --ping --checkresponse
        LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/bb-network.log
        INTERVAL 5m

Should the "NEEDS hobbitd" be removed?
Yes, or replaced with "NEEDS bbproxy".
In my case, I want to use one "monitoring" server in a network as proxy
and network tester, and I wouldn't mind having a display on it too (eg,
in the DR site).
Then you must setup the hobbitd process to listen on a separate IP (e.g.
127.0.0.1) so it doesn't conflict with bbproxy listening on the same
port.
I was running hobbitd on a different port, with bbproxy sending to the local 
hobbitd as well as the one on the main display:

[hobbitd]
        HEARTBEAT
        ENVFILE /usr/lib/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
        CMD 
hobbitd --pidfile=$BBSERVERLOGS/hobbitd.pid --restart=$BBTMP/hobbitd.chk --chec
kpoint-file=$BBTMP/hobbitd.chk --checkpoint-interval=600 --log=$BBSERVERLOGS/hobbitd.log --
admin-senders=127.0.0.1,$BBSERVERIP --listen=0.0.0.0:1985


[bbproxy]
        ENVFILE /usr/lib/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
        CMD 
$BBHOME/bin/bbproxy --hobbitd --bbdisplay=127.0.0.1:1985,10.10.9.32:1984 --report=$MACHINE.bbproxy --pidfile=$BBSERVERLOGS/bbproxy.pid


But then bbgen on the proxy complains:
hobbitd status-board not available

And the display on the proxy has no hosts at all (just pages, all-green).


Regards,
Buchan

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Buchan Milne
ISP Systems Specialist
B.Eng,RHCE(803004789010797),LPIC-2(LPI000074592)