Re: {bb} Multiple nodes on one host

["Urs Krolzig" <urs.krolzig@bluewin.ch>]

Hello Rolf

Just set the $MACHINE to the name of your alias, just before you send the
message with $BB in your external script should do the job.

regards

Urs
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rolf Schrittenlocher" <Schrittenlocher@rz.uni-frankfurt.de>
To: <bb@bb4.com>
Sent: Friday, September 03, 2004 10:29 AM
Subject: Re: {bb} Multiple nodes on one host


> Hi Phil,
>
> first: Thanks!
>
> >
> >>Hi Mike & Co.,
> >>
> >>I don't have a solution but the same problem. We are using virtual
> >>interfaces to switch services between machines in case of outages.
> >>Display, history, statistics, etc. should be linked to the service and
> >>not to the machine. We use bbaliasname and we hacked bbinc.sh to change
> >>$MACHINE in bb, so BB recognizes hostname and 1 alias, but only one. Any
> >>ideas how to get bb accepting different alias names would be widely
> >>appreciated!
> >>
> >>Rolf
> >
> >
> > I'm making a bunch of assumptions here, but your requirement feels
> > different to me. It sounds as if Mike is trying to display the
> > standard client test data under multiple dynamic hostnames. Your
> > requirement would appear to be the testing of specific processes
> > which are associated with dynamic names.
> >
>
> True.
>
> > In your case, I'd recommend using a network test (from BBNET) as
> > it is much better at spotting problems than process watching on
> > the client. For example, if you have a web-server on a virtual
> > host then something like this should work:
> >
> > 0.0.0.0 virt1.mydom.com # noconn http://virt1.mydom.com/index.html
> >
> > Cheers, Phil.
> >
>
> Ok, you are right. This is what we do already for network tests. Our
> problem are tests that have to be executed on the client (Database
> checks, check of timestamps, etc.) be external scripts. I'll try an
example:
> Test A is a database check on "db-machine",
> test B is a check of timestamps on "prod-machine".
> Now the aliases db-machine and prod-machine (and others) might be
> located on the same server. But I can send messages to the server only
> as either db-machine or prod-machine.
>
> greetings,
> Rolf
>
> >
> >
>
>
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>
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>
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