I did that. I caused a whole lot more problems. The bbnet process didn't seem to honor it. I had
red everywhere.
To me, it turns out, it's easier to have a separate bb-hosts file for the proxy server. There aren't that
many machines to be monitored there. It's a small extra step in administration, once, for less than 5% of our machines,
compared to a little admin for every machine. At config time.
From: Buchan Milne [user-9b139aff4dec@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Friday, June 19, 2009 2:14 AM
To: Root, Paul
Cc: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Xymon Proxy for 'conn'
On Wednesday 17 June 2009 20:03:11 Root, Paul wrote:
I enabled bbnet on my proxy server, and it started up sending conn to green
on the machines the servers are able to get to. Great.
But then I start getting some cycling of the conn icon, red to green to red
to green.
Could this be the proxy saying it's green, and then the server saying it's
red? Do I need to disable bbnet on the servers? Can I do that on a case by
case (machine by machine) basis?
Populate the NET tags in the bb-hosts file, to match what you will put in the
BBLOCATION variable in hobbitserver.cfg on the Hobbit/Xymon box that should do
network tests for the host in question.
Regards,
Buchan