two hobbit servers on the same machine 🔗 link

I would like to have two hobbit server on the same machine, running on
different
ports.
One of these must send to the other (port 1984) the test results.
I try to use the BBDISPLAY option
but nothing is arrived on the other server.
Seems that the sender server post the status message not to the default
port.
Any ideas?
On the reicer server i must enable status channel?


thanks for helps

Marco

On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 05:01:06PM +0100, Marco Avvisano wrote:

hobbitd was never designed to do this. It receives messages, it
doesn't send them.

If you want to forward incoming messages to one or more hobbit
servers, use the bbproxy (also part of the Hobbit package).

I try to use the BBDISPLAY option

which is 100% ignored by hobbit. BBDISPLAY, BBPAGER, BBNET and BBRELAY
are for BB - hobbit ignores them.


Henrik

I try to use bbproxy, but it send only the message status coming from the
client

I think BBRELAY may be important, specially when you are migrating to a new
server.

sorry, i use BBDISPLAYS in the hobbitserver.cfg, but the problem is that is
not possible to specify the port,
seems that it use the same port number.

So you think is possible to make a configuration, using only one hobbit
server, to have two http servers (private and pubblic)?
I try to use alternate pageset to make this, but i have two problems:
1) in hobbit seems not support more the nodisp option in bb-hosts as bbgen
2) the bb2 page, report and others cgi, show all the entries of my bb-hosts.
You think it's possible to make a custom header, where the cgi  read a
specific bb-hosts  file ?

thanks for your help and your work

Marco

I try to install two hobbit servers that shared the data directory. What do
you think about?
Do you think it's possible to force the restore status, for one server,
every xx seconds from the file hobbitd.chk?

thanks for help

Marco

In <005401c51f00$63da0220$2b01d59f at pcma13319new> "Marco Avvisano" <user-716ccebaa550@xymon.invalid> writes:

You cannot run to hobbit servers off the same data directory. There is
no file locking in hobbit, so you would easily end up with garbage
files.

Sorry Marco, but I simply cannot figure out what it is you are trying
to accomplish with this setup. I have a strong feeling that you are
doing something very simple in an extremely complicated way.


I *think* you want to setup a server with two sets of hosts - one set
is for use by one group, and another set is used by a different
group.

If you want these two completely separate, setup two full Hobbit
installations - two userid's, two server-directories, two
data-directories, everything completely separate. When you build the
two installations, build them with different BBPORT settings so you
can have both hobbitd's running at the same time - or better: If you
have extra IP addresses available, let each of them have their own IP
address so you don't need to worry about changing port numbers. If
everything runs on the same server, you can use 127.0.0.1 and
127.0.0.2 !

Each installation runs his own network tests, so they will also be
separate.

The only problem I see is if you want data from client
installations. That's where you use bbproxy. Set it up to receive
client messages, and forward them to both of the two hobbit daemons.


Regards,
Henrik

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Henrik Storner" <user-ce4a2c883f75@xymon.invalid>
Newsgroups: lists.hobbit
To: <user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid>
Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 10:38 PM
Subject: Re: [hobbit] two hobbit servers on the same machine

<user-716ccebaa550@xymon.invalid> writes:

No, server1 (public) should make goup1 tests and publish it, while the
server2 (private) make group2 tests but must publish the results of the
group1 and group2 tests.

So i would like to make all using one server. Because i don't want to show
the group2 tests on the public servers, it's impossible for me to use the
pageset option.

Probabilly the best solution is to use a bb-net (using bbgen) that make the
group1 test and send results to two hobbit servers on the same machine using
different Ip, across a bbproxy

The bbproxy send to the servers also the clients status . The status message
of the hosts not included in bb-hosts files are dropped.

Marco