In the main bb-hosts file on the server:
137.xxx.xxx.1 gb17.gb.domain.com # NET:main DESCR:"printer: "
page remote remote
include /usr/local/hobbit/server/etc/bb-hosts(remote)
in the remote bb-hosts subfile:
subpage Printers Printers
137.xx1.xxx.1 gb6.gbr.domain.com # NET:remote
(you don't really need these tags on the remote sites when all hosts in their bb-hosts file will be tested but it helps if you end up adding anymore tiers to your monitoring)
In hobbitserver.cfg on main server:
BBLOCATION="main" # The network location, makes bbtest-net test only hosts with NET:foo
In hobbitlaunch.cfg on remote:
CMD $BBHOME/bin/bbproxy --hobbitd --bbdisplay=137.xxx.xxx.1,127.0.0.1 --listen=137.xx1.xxx.54 --report --no-daemon --pidfile=$BBSERVERLOGS/bbproxy.pid
(ie send to main hobbit server and hobbit server running on localhost, listen on external address of localhost)
In hobbitserver.cfg on remote:
Ipaddress=127.0.01 or whatever the variable is.
There might be something else you need to do to get it working properly but I think this is it. Check the error logs if you have trouble with the remote side of things.
Regards,
Craig
-----Original Message-----
From: L.M.J [mailto:user-78bb6d5d9024@xymon.invalid]
Sent: 29 November 2007 16:48
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Use several Hobbit on different place
Le Thu, 29 Nov 2007 10:15:23 -0000,
"Whilding, Craig" <user-9ce31bfa66c3@xymon.invalid> a écrit :
Further to this, if you want a display server running on the remote
sites (in case the WAN goes down for example) then you must setup the
secondary hobbit servers to run on localhost and get the proxy to
forward to both the main server and the localhost while listening on the
secondary server's external ipaddress.
This is what I do on most of our European sites and forward them to the
central hub. It means we have the data in two places by default.
That's exactly what I want to do!
The net location tags are very important if doing network tests at the
remote sites so that the main server doesn't try testing them as well. I
rsync the bb-hosts files from the remote servers with sub bb-host pages
on the main server.
I will double check the "net" option in bb-hosts. Last thing I'm asking : could you send me samples of your
bb-hosts using the "net" option?
Hope this is useful.
Regards,
Craig