Using bbproxy to replicate the display

In my setup I have --listen=127.0.0.1 on the hobbitd section and 
--listen=172.17.100.10 --bbdisplay=127.0.0.1,172.17.100.20 on the 
bbproxy section.

My central server is on 172.17.100.20

Try to look at netstat -ln and see where you have the port 1984 listening.

Whilding, Craig wrote:

The --listen option is set to 127.0.0.1 only for hobbitd in the
hobbitlaunch.cfg file. 

Even when hobbitd is DISABLED I still get the socket is in use. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas [mailto:user-97316fb2dd2a@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: 02 November 2005 13:55
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Using bbproxy to replicate the display

No but you should remove the $BBSERVERID from the --listen option on 
hobbitd.

Whilding, Craig wrote:

 

Just looking through again, should BBSERVERID in hobbitserver.cfg still
be set as the real ip of the machine? 

-----Original Message-----
From: Henrik Stoerner [mailto:user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: 01 November 2005 15:40
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] Using bbproxy to replicate the display

On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 01:15:48PM -0000, Whilding, Craig wrote:

My company has a few sites that are currently using hobbit or big
brother for monitoring. What we wish to do is forward all of this
information to a central hobbit server so collate it for reports etc.
This server would also be testing the networks site gateways etc.
  

After

reading the "delay creation of web pages" posts I realise bbproxy is
  

the

replacement to bbrelay I require but I was wondering how I should set
  

it

up. Looking at the manual and hobbitlaunch.cfg it says I should
  

disable

hobbitd. Will each sites monitoring work as normal if I set
  

--bbdisplay=

localhost and also the other, central machine?
  

By default, hobbitd and bbproxy will conflict because they will both
attempt to listen to port 1984 to handle incoming messages.

But if you configure them properly, they can coexist. The setup you're
after sounds like you want bbproxy to receive all of the incoming
status messages and then forward them to a) a local hobbitd running
on the same host, and b) the central hobbitd server.

The easiest way to do that is to setup the local hobbitd's to listen on
only the loopback interface (127.0.0.1), and bbproxy to listen on the 
public IP-address. Say your local server has IP 172.16.10.1 and the 
central Hobbit server is 10.0.100.200, then you should use the options 

--listen=127.0.0.1 

for hobbitd, and 

--listen=172.16.10.1 --bbdisplay=127.0.0.1,10.0.100.200

for bbproxy.


Regards,
Henrik