Hi everyone! Um, any ideas on this? I didn't get a single reply -
maybe my original post didn't make it to the list?
Thanks......
From: Brodie, Kent
Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 11:08 AM
To: 'user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid'
Subject: Weird hobbit/proxy/CONN catch-22?
OK guys, here's what I have (thank to all that helped me thus far,
especially Henrik!)
My setup involves a hidden cluster-- which means that from my MAIN
Hobbit server (BBDISPLAY), I cannot see nor ping the cluster nodes, but
I *can* see and talk to the cluster "head node".
Based on prior suggestions, I set it all up as follows:
Main BB server has config entries for everything, including the cluster
head node AND the cluster nodes it "can't see" directly.
These entries are listed as:
Hidden.ip.address.here host.name.here # noconn
"noconn" obviously, since the network tests from the main Hobbit server
would fail!
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Next, I set up the cluster head node as a BB server. Actually, its
main purpose is to run the network and such tests, and act as a proxy
server for the whole cluster.
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It all works. Sort of! On my main BB display, I see the entries
for the "unreachable" cluster nodes, which is very cool. I see the
cpu, disk, files, msgs, etc. But-- there's no connectivity (conn)
information or status information.
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Catch-22? How do I get the "conn" test to show up? If I list "conn"
in the bb-hosts on my main Hobbit server, I am going to assume that the
conn tests will have issues, since that server(s) really are unreachable
from the BBDISPLAY host. But if I set it up listed as "noconn" on
the BBDISPLAY server-- um, there's no conn data/column (a Homr Simpson
"D'oh!" goes here).
Any ideas? The BBPROXY setup described above is working as far as
information exchange, as I am indeed seeing cpu, disk, files, info,
msgs, ports, procs, and that's all very very cool and good. But I need
'conn' most of all.
Help! (and thanks)
By the way - a suggestion for stuff down the road a bit: When I set up
my proxy server (./configure -server), there was of course all of the
requirements I had to have met, such as having RRDTOOL, libpng, etc etc
all there. That's great, except I have no intention of having this
other server doing anything other than running a few tests, and
forwarding it all on to the BBD server. No data, no RRD, no graphs, no
apache, no html. One big suggestion I have (since the proxy is such
a cool thing) is to perhaps including things like: ./configure
-proxy-only ? Just a thought. This may or may not be
complicated...
Kent C. Brodie - user-da7f7d5174c0@xymon.invalid
Department of Physiology
Medical College of Wisconsin
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