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Changing BBDISP per test

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list Frank Gruellich · Thu, 25 Sep 2008 17:54:55 +0200 · 
Hi,

for some reason we have two external hobbit monitoring servers.  Now we
got a couple of machines in a firewalled subnet, bbtest-net on both
external servers can not access them.  So I set up an internal server,
that forwards all test results to one of the external servers.
Unfortunately I need some of the test results at the other external
server.  From my mind I can remember something like:

10.0.1.1	hostA	# BBDISP=10.0.0.1 conn http://hostA/index.html
10.0.1.2	hostB	# BBDISP=10.0.0.1 conn http://hostB/index.html
10.0.1.3	host	# BBDISP=10.0.0.2 conn http://host/index.html

(with 10.0.1.0/24 the firewalled network and 10.0.0.1 and 10.0.0.2 as
two external hobbit servers), but I can't find any references to this
anymore.  Can someone help me please?  Is this possible at all or do I
need to setup a second internal server?

Thanks in advance and kind regards,
-- 
Navteq (DE) GmbH
Frank Gruellich
Map24 Systems and Networks

Duesseldorfer Strasse 40a
65760 Eschborn
Germany

Phone:      +XX XXXX XXXXX-XXX
Fax:        +XX XXXX XXXXX-XXX

USt-ID-No.: DE 197947163
Managing Directors: Thomas Golob, Alexander Wiegand,
Hans Pieter Gieszen, Martin Robert Stockman
list Sanu Mathew · Thu, 25 Sep 2008 21:54:16 +0530 · 
Hi Frank,

I am also in a similar state. Let me tell u what i did.
On the firewall i allowed port 1984 from 10.0.1.0/24 network to my external
hobbit server 10.0.0.1.
But that initially did not work well, so what i did at the switch/firewall
level is have a natted ip for the 10.0.0.1 server from the same
10.0.1.0/24class.
Also have a natted 10.0.0.0/24 ip for each of ur firewalled servers so that
the hobbit server can talk to them as well.

Now my hobbit server gets all the data from my firewalled servers.
However, the conn is black has a '-' instead of a red or green. I am looking
for answers on that.

Let me know if the above solution works good for u.

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 9:24 PM, Frank Gruellich <user-18166e0335f0@xymon.invalid
▸ quoted from Frank Gruellich
wrote:
Hi,

for some reason we have two external hobbit monitoring servers.  Now we
got a couple of machines in a firewalled subnet, bbtest-net on both
external servers can not access them.  So I set up an internal server,
that forwards all test results to one of the external servers.
Unfortunately I need some of the test results at the other external
server.  From my mind I can remember something like:

10.0.1.1        hostA   # BBDISP=10.0.0.1 conn http://hostA/index.html
10.0.1.2        hostB   # BBDISP=10.0.0.1 conn http://hostB/index.html
10.0.1.3        host    # BBDISP=10.0.0.2 conn http://host/index.html

(with 10.0.1.0/24 the firewalled network and 10.0.0.1 and 10.0.0.2 as
two external hobbit servers), but I can't find any references to this
anymore.  Can someone help me please?  Is this possible at all or do I
need to setup a second internal server?

Thanks in advance and kind regards,
--
Navteq (DE) GmbH
Frank Gruellich
Map24 Systems and Networks

Duesseldorfer Strasse 40a
65760 Eschborn
Germany

Phone:      +XX XXXX XXXXX-XXX
Fax:        +XX XXXX XXXXX-XXX

USt-ID-No.: DE 197947163
Managing Directors: Thomas Golob, Alexander Wiegand,
Hans Pieter Gieszen, Martin Robert Stockman
list Frank Gruellich · Thu, 25 Sep 2008 19:45:04 +0200 ·
▸ quoted from Sanu Mathew
Sanu Mathew schrieb:
I am also in a similar state. Let me tell u what i did.

On the firewall i allowed port 1984 from 10.0.1.0/24 <http://10.0.1.0/24>; network to my external hobbit server 10.0.0.1 <http://10.0.0.1>;.
10.0.1.0/24 to 10.0.0.0/24 is completely open.  The problem is, that
10.0.0.0/24 can't access 10.0.1.0/24.  That's why I placed some kind of
hobbit proxy server within 10.0.1.0/24 that collects network tests in
this subnet and reports them to one of the servers in 10.0.0.0/24.

But that initially did not work well, so what i did at the switch/firewall level is have a natted ip for the 10.0.0.1 <http://10.0.0.1>; server from the same 10.0.1.0/24 <http://10.0.1.0/24>; class.
Also have a natted 10.0.0.0/24 <http://10.0.0.0/24>; ip for each of ur firewalled servers so that the hobbit server can talk to them as well.
Unfortunately that will not work for us, it's exactly the other way
here: on our site the entire 10.0.1.0/24 is a farm of servers behind a
load balancer that is natted to a single public IP# in 10.0.0.0/24 (I
use RFC1918 addresses only as example).  I can't waste public addresses
for all machines there.
▸ quoted from Sanu Mathew

Kind regards,
-- 
Navteq (DE) GmbH
Frank Gruellich
Map24 Systems and Networks

Duesseldorfer Strasse 40a
65760 Eschborn
Germany

Phone:      +XX XXXX XXXXX-XXX
Fax:        +XX XXXX XXXXX-XXX

USt-ID-No.: DE 197947163
Managing Directors: Thomas Golob, Alexander Wiegand,
Hans Pieter Gieszen, Martin Robert Stockman
list Buchan Milne · Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:13:05 +0200 ·
▸ quoted from Frank Gruellich
On Thursday 25 September 2008 17:54:55 Frank Gruellich wrote:
Hi,

for some reason we have two external hobbit monitoring servers.  Now we
got a couple of machines in a firewalled subnet, bbtest-net on both
external servers can not access them.  So I set up an internal server,
that forwards all test results to one of the external servers.
Unfortunately I need some of the test results at the other external
server.  From my mind I can remember something like:

10.0.1.1	hostA	# BBDISP=10.0.0.1 conn http://hostA/index.html
10.0.1.2	hostB	# BBDISP=10.0.0.1 conn http://hostB/index.html
10.0.1.3	host	# BBDISP=10.0.0.2 conn http://host/index.html

(with 10.0.1.0/24 the firewalled network and 10.0.0.1 and 10.0.0.2 as
two external hobbit servers), but I can't find any references to this
anymore.  Can someone help me please?  Is this possible at all or do I
need to setup a second internal server?
Why don't you run two copies of bbtest-net on the network testing internal 
server, started with different environment files (which have different 
LOCATION and BBDISP environment variables set), and use NET: tags in a shared 
bb-hosts file?

Regards,
Buchan
list Tom Kauffman · Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:31:50 -0400 · 
Hobbit doesn't use the BBDISP tags in the bb-hosts file; the hobbit server(s) are configured in client/etc/hobbitclient.cfg and server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg. And yes, you can have multiples.

Tom
▸ quoted from Frank Gruellich

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Subject: [hobbit] Changing BBDISP per test

Hi,

for some reason we have two external hobbit monitoring servers.  Now we
got a couple of machines in a firewalled subnet, bbtest-net on both
external servers can not access them.  So I set up an internal server,
that forwards all test results to one of the external servers.
Unfortunately I need some of the test results at the other external
server.  From my mind I can remember something like:

10.0.1.1        hostA   # BBDISP=10.0.0.1 conn http://hostA/index.html
10.0.1.2        hostB   # BBDISP=10.0.0.1 conn http://hostB/index.html
10.0.1.3        host    # BBDISP=10.0.0.2 conn http://host/index.html

(with 10.0.1.0/24 the firewalled network and 10.0.0.1 and 10.0.0.2 as
two external hobbit servers), but I can't find any references to this
anymore.  Can someone help me please?  Is this possible at all or do I
need to setup a second internal server?

Thanks in advance and kind regards,
--
Navteq (DE) GmbH
Frank Gruellich
Map24 Systems and Networks

Duesseldorfer Strasse 40a
65760 Eschborn
Germany

Phone:      +XX XXXX XXXXX-XXX
Fax:        +XX XXXX XXXXX-XXX

USt-ID-No.: DE 197947163
Managing Directors: Thomas Golob, Alexander Wiegand,
Hans Pieter Gieszen, Martin Robert Stockman
list Frank Gruellich · Sun, 02 Nov 2008 15:58:52 +0100 · 
Hi,

sorry for the delay, but I was busy and it took some time to configure
that.
▸ quoted from Buchan Milne

Buchan Milne wrote:
On Thursday 25 September 2008 17:54:55 Frank Gruellich wrote:
Now we got a couple of machines in a firewalled subnet, bbtest-net on
both external servers can not access them.  So I set up an internal
server, that forwards all test results to one of the external
servers.  Unfortunately I need some of the test results at the other
external server.
Why don't you run two copies of bbtest-net on the network testing internal 
server, started with different environment files (which have different 
LOCATION and BBDISP environment variables set), and use NET: tags in a shared 
bb-hosts file?
Actually, that was the best idea and I did it that way.  Works
perfectly.  Thanks a lot.
▸ quoted from Tom Kauffman

Kind regards,
-- 
Navteq (DE) GmbH
Frank Gruellich
Map24 Systems and Networks

Duesseldorfer Strasse 40a
65760 Eschborn
Germany

Phone:      +XX XXXX XXXXX-XXX
Fax:        +XX XXXX XXXXX-XXX

USt-ID-No.: DE 197947163
Managing Directors: Thomas Golob, Alexander Wiegand,
Hans Pieter Gieszen, Martin Robert Stockman