Re: {bb} question about conn!

["Jim Harmon" <jharmon@colltech.com>]

>thanks but what is a proper bb-hosts file mine looks like this at the
moment
>are there serios errors in it so please tell me what to correct!



This shows that the problem is your bb-hosts file.

BB actually parses the information after the "#" sign, so the information on
the right hand of the "#" is signifigant.

That means the comments that you have below are probably confusing the
parser and making it ignore the servers on those lines.

The distribution file that came with your original BB download shows the
correct format for many of the options in the bb-hosts file.  (Except, if it
hasn't been updated in the last 2-3 distributions, for the "dialup" option
for giving "blank" blinkies for systems that are subject to being shutdown
by users or exist across vast modem expanses...)

Check out    http://bb4.com/bb/help/bb-hosts.html    for very exact examples
of how to setup your bb-hosts file.

(I see that this has the "dialup" option now... so disregard my note from
above... ;)



Anyway the format comes down to:



xxx.yyy.zzz.abc  fully.qualified.domain.name    aliasX aliasY aliasZ       #
bb-option bb-option bb-option bb-option


Any other format and you'll have errors and/or failures.

All the bb-hosts "bb-options" are described clearly in the web page, and in
your online documentation.


Cool?




>: my host file
> #
># THE BIG BROTHER HOSTS FILE
>#
># THIS FILE SHOULD BE THE SAME ON ALL SYSTEMS RUNNING BIG BROTHER
># CHANGE THIS FILE TO REFLECT YOUR ENVIRONMENT!
>#
>172.24.4.17     sa1 BBDISPLAY # host server
>172.24.4.10     pods15        #DSI denmark mainserver sparc interprise
>running o
>172.24.4.15     bingo
>172.24.4.11     pods1
>172.24.12.13    kas-pods5     # main server on Kastrup site
>172.24.12.14    kas-jit    # production workstation interface to tools
>172.24.4.18     backup     #backupserver with ait jukebox
>172.24.4.14     alr-jit    # sparc workstationen for printopr in alle
>summary         http://172.24.4.17/bb/
>~
>~
>~i am runnig a sun webserver only as intranet.
>~
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jim Harmon [mailto:jharmon@colltech.com]
>Sent: 31. januar 2000 12:38
>To: bb@bb4.com
>Subject: Re: {bb} question about conn!
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Simon Jespersen <simon.jespersen@dankasi.dk>
>To: 'bb@bb4.com' <bb@bb4.com>
>Date: Monday, January 31, 2000 12:22 AM
>Subject: {bb} question about conn!
>
>
>>Hi list
>>
>>this maybe be a stupid question but im still a newbie at BB. i have done
my
>>setup off BB on all my hosts are responding ok. i have the monitors on
cpu,
>>disk, msg, and proc.
>>1 . have does i configere my BB clients and host to display the conn
status
>
>When you create a proper bb-hosts file, the conn data is updated
>automatically.  In other words, if you have a system listed correctly in
the
>bb-hosts file, the BB Master system will ping them, and the conn flag will
>tell you what the connection status is.
>
>>2 . my var/adm/messages file are reset every week! have do i prevent BB
for
>>displayng status red when the messages file is emty.
>
>Place a dummy message in the messages file as soon as you use the
newsysfile
>cronjob to rotate the old files.
>
>(Just create a one line file somewhere, i.e. named "reset.txt" and add this
>to the newsyslog commandline in the root crontab:
>
>       ; cat <path>/reset.txt  >> /var/adm/messages
>
>That will add a copy of the line in reset.txt so you have a messages file
>that isn't empty after rotation.
>
>
>>
>>all my mashines are Solaris 7.
>>
>>Bigbrother! thanks for a great software package
>>regars
>>Simon Jespersen
>>System-administrator
>>Danka services international A/S
>>Sortemosevej 21
>>3450 Allerød
>>email: simon.jespersen@dankasi.dk
>>tlf:   45238954
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