bb-central 🔗 link

Can anyone tell me if bb-central will work with Hobbit if I do not have
bbclient loaded?  It looks like it but install says to change bbrun.sh
script and I don't have one of those.  Do I just need to see what the
format of that is?  Am I barking up the wrong tree here?  I have 100
plus servers I need to monitor and I really don't want to deploy
anything across all of them.

 
Thanks for any info,

Tim

On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 11:49 -0600, Tim Rotunda wrote:

In hobbit, it would be hobbitlaunch.cfg that you would fiddle with.  You
just create a new entry like this one I made for bbmrtg.pl:

[bbmrtg]
        ENVFILE /var/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
        NEEDS hobbitd
        CMD $BBHOME/ext/bbmrtg.pl
        LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/bbmrtg.log
        INTERVAL 5m

Ditto.  I haven't played with bb-central under hobbit yet, but that's
coming up soon on my agenda.  Any pointers you come up with are most
appreciated.


-- 
Daniel J McDonald, CCIE # 2495, CNX
Austin Energy

user-290ce4e24e19@xymon.invalid

Dan,
Thanks for the info.  I just started my learning curve a few days ago and already have 32 servers monitored.

I am under the gun to prove Hobbit a better tool than Nagios and it looks to me like incorporating bb-central is all the ammo I will need.  Very powerful if I can get it to work well.

Thanks again,
Tim
Austin, Texas.

-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel J McDonald [mailto:user-290ce4e24e19@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 12:33 PM
To: Hobbit List
Subject: Re: [hobbit] bb-central

On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 11:49 -0600, Tim Rotunda wrote:

In hobbit, it would be hobbitlaunch.cfg that you would fiddle with.  You
just create a new entry like this one I made for bbmrtg.pl:

[bbmrtg]
        ENVFILE /var/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg
        NEEDS hobbitd
        CMD $BBHOME/ext/bbmrtg.pl
        LOGFILE $BBSERVERLOGS/bbmrtg.log
        INTERVAL 5m

Ditto.  I haven't played with bb-central under hobbit yet, but that's
coming up soon on my agenda.  Any pointers you come up with are most
appreciated.


-- 
Daniel J McDonald, CCIE # 2495, CNX
Austin Energy

user-290ce4e24e19@xymon.invalid

On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 01:45:54PM -0600, Tim Rotunda wrote:

Let us know what problems you run into - I'm sure we can sort it out
fairly quickly. Unless bb-central does something very odd (which I
doubt), it shouldn't be any problem to use it with Hobbit.


Regards,
Henrik

I've read a few threads in the archive about bb-central, but not everybody is
having luck getting it to work.
We currently use bb-central for over 100 hosts, this poses some difficulties.
When a connection failes during one of the ssh sessions, the whole bb-central
script hangs and everything turns purple. Another is the bb-central script can
take longer that 5 minutes  because it probes 1 host at a time, this causes
timeouts and purple displays. This pushes to make a good working replacement
for bb-central with the following ideas:

- small scripts so you can test serveral (say 5 or 10) hosts at a time
- possible timeouts so the following scripts won't wait on it.
- a bbcentral-hosts file from wich the scripts are generated (hostnames and
commands per host)
- should stay working after a Hobbit upgrade, so prefferably no editting the
startup files or other files.

Before I start on this I would like some ideas, comments and if possible some
people who would like to help because I'm not such a good shell-script-kiddy.

Grtz,
Arnoud Post
The Netherlands