Re: {bb} Nothing displayed for a client

[nickykav nickykav <mailnickykav@yahoo.com>]

Hi Phillip,

 

Thankyou for your response, that was very informative.

below is the content of my bb-hosts file (it is the same on the server and all of the clients:

 

12.40.98.2      support.xyz.com # BBPAGER BBNET BBDISPLAY ftp testip cpu disk procs http://www.xyz.com
169.143.196.44  devf50b # cpu disk procs testip
169.143.196.42  venus # cpu disk procs testip
12.20.194.5     devj30a # cpu disk procs testip
12.20.194.12    saturn # cpu disk procs testip
page web BB4 Web Servers

 

the bbvar/logs do not show any files form an unknown source. i have confirmed that.

I do see some errors in the BBOUT of the client saturn (thats the client whos status i cant see)

Wed May 25 14:22:40 2005 bb-local.sh Wed May 25 14:22:40 2005 bb CAN'T CONNECT TO bbd SERVER @ 12.40.98.2
Wed May 25 14:22:40 2005 bb-local.sh Wed May 25 14:22:40 2005 bb Unknown host: support.xyz.com
Wed May 25 14:22:46 2005 bb-local.sh Wed May 25 14:22:46 2005 bb CONNECTION TO 12.40.98.2 TIMED OUT...

 

 

But on the other hand, i checked the BBOUT of Venus (thats the client whos status i can see)

i see simillar errors:

ue May 24 14:36:18 2005 bb-local.sh Tue May 24 14:36:18 2005 bb CAN'T CONNECT TO bbd SERVER @ 12.40.98.2
Tue May 24 14:36:18 2005 bb-local.sh Tue May 24 14:36:18 2005 bb Unknown host: support.sbsint.com
Tue May 24 14:36:19 2005 bb-local.sh Tue May 24 14:36:19 2005 bb CAN'T CONNECT TO bbd SERVER @ 12.40.98.2

 

Only difference in the 2 is that the connection is not timing out for venus.

Can yout tell me what i can do now. to further investigate / solve this problem.

 

 

Philip Clark <bblist@cannae.uklinux.net> wrote:

On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 19:31, nickykav nickykav wrote:
> Hi Again,
>
> Is there some kind of limitation, where in you cannot use more that
> 3 clients on a server? i installed the BB client on another HP machine
> (5th client) and i had the same problem, only the connection tab shows
> green, rest all shows "-"
>
> conncpudiskdnsftphttpmsgspop3procssmtp polar luna---- paris-----
> mail--------- dev9---------
>
> Please advice.

No. Many people monitor hundreds of hosts.

> nickykav nickykav wrote:
> Hi All,
> I am using BB for the first time. I sucessfully manages to install the
> BB server and client on one machine (linux) and a client on 1HP and 2AIX
> machines.
>
> On the web page i can see all these clients, but for one of the aix
> machines it shows only the CONN button as green, all others are just a
> plain "-".
>
> Why is it not displaying the status of the other process? I installed
> all the clients in exatly the same way, the others are showing some
> status for the different processes.
>
> The processes i have enabled are
> conncpudiskdnsftphttpmsgspop3procssmtp
> for this particular AIX machine onlt conn status is a green button..
>
> Please help..

Test are enabled in different ways, depending on whether they are
client or network tests. For all the network tests above, you should
have a line in your bb-hosts file like:

10.10.10.10 aix2.myplace.com # dns ftp pop3 smtp
http://aix2.myplace.com/

(That's one line) And this needs to be (at least) on the machine that
is acting as the BBNET server.

The client tests (cpu disk msgs procs) are not controlled by the
bb-hosts file. Just running the client is enough. The first thing
to check is that the client is actually running on that machine
and the BBOUT file doesn't contain any errors.

The next most likely cause is that the client is reporting, but
is not using the name that you configured in the bb-hosts file
(on the machine that is acting as the BBDISPLAY server). The
match needs to be exact, with the same case.

You can check the bb2.html page (the icon with the arrows in the
top left of the main BB page) or list the contents of the bbvar/logs
directory to see if there are any status files that are comming
from an unknown source. If this is the case, create a file called
"bbaliasname" in the etc directory on the client and put the name
that you want this client to use (as used in the bb-hosts file)
in there. Then restart the client.

There's a great deal of useful information available in the manual
(the "i" in a circle icon on your main BB page).

Cheers, Phil.



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