Re: {bb} BBRELAY question

["PAUL WILLIAMSON" <pwilliamson@mandtbank.com>]

A server is a device that performs one of the server-related 
functions - either paging, serving pages, or testing via network tests.

If you want to run an ext script on remote hosts, that server has to 
be defined as a BBNET server.  If you want to run local tests that 
are custom to a client machine, they are also run from the $BBHOME/ext 
directory.

For example, you want to see what your table space is like on a mysql 
instance running on one of your clients.  Just because you run an 
external (to BB) test on a client, it's still a client.

If you want to develop a custom test that probes a port to verify 
it is up an running, accepting requests and is able to respond with 
a specific response, put that script in the ext directory of your BBNET 
server.

Now, for the specific question.  A server defined as a BBRELAY only 
has to know where the BBDISPLAY and BBPAGER are, so it really 
doesn't have to be a BBDISPLAY or BBPAGER itself.  No clients ever 
need to know where the BBNET is, other than the BBNET server itself.

So, in answer to your question, a BBRELAY can be a regular BB client.

I'm running bb1.9d, so it may have changed since then.

HTH,

Paul

>>> misty@borkholder.com 06/02/04 10:53AM >>>
This is a stupid question I am sure.  The host that sends info to a BBRELAY 
has to be a server, correct?  Not just a client?  This server/client thing is 
really fuzzy to me anyway.  I never know whether it is the server or client 
that needs to run the EXT scripts, etc...
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