Re: {bb} Another question please

["Larry.Barber@usda.gov" <Larry.Barber@usda.gov>]

Sounds like a firewall, try to establish an ftp session from your bb
server to the client. If you can't do it, then neither can BigBrother.

One other thing, your clients are running tftp, not ftp. Tftp uses a
different port (69) than ftp. If you want to check tftp you will need to
create a new entry in your etc/bb-services file, as there isn't an entry
for it in the default configuration. 

Thanks,
Larry Barber


On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 13:08 -0500, mailnickykav@yahoo.com wrote:
> Hi,
>  
> That really helped,
> I got was able to remove the pop3 check and enable the DNS and FTP
> checks for the other clients. 
> Now the problem is that the FTP checks for the other cients are
> showing red. and i have confirned that ftp service is runing on that
> client.
>  
> I did a "ps -ef|grep ftp" on the client and it shows me
> nobody  84966 163126   0 13:33:43  pts/0  0:00 /usr/sbin/tftpd 
> root 163126      1   0 13:33:43  pts/0  0:00 /usr/sbin/tftpd 
>  
> But still for this client the ftp is showing red.
>  
> Please advice.
> 
> Philip Clark <bblist@cannae.uklinux.net> wrote:
>         On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 21:57, nickykav nickykav wrote:
>         > Hi,
>         > 
>         > Sorry to hound with questions, but i am setting this up for
>         around 15
>         > clients and that to i am new to this software.
>         > 
>         > my questions are:
>         > 
>         > 1)I want to get the pop3 tab out of the diaplay, that is i
>         dont want pop3
>         > status to be showing at all..
>         
>         This will not show unless you are (or have in the past) tested
>         for it.
>         Make sure that the "pop3" directive is removed from your bb-
>         hosts
>         files and that any status file that ends in ".pop3" is removed
>         from
>         the bbvar/logs directory (also hist and histlogs if you want
>         to be
>         thorough).
>         
>         > 2)What checks does the DNS do? coz the status of my DNS
>         server is showing
>         > a purple dot if i click on it it says
>         > purple Tue May 24 11:15:04 EDT 2005 DNS Server on
>         support.xyz.com down 
>         The DNS check tests that the specified host can resolve it's
>         own
>         name, but this status is purple. That translates to "This used
>         to
>         be tested and has not been updated recently". If you intended
>         to
>         stop testing this, you should use the "bbrm" utility to tidy
>         up
>         the status files (or use the manual method above). If the
>         directive
>         is still in the bb-hosts file, you will need to try and work
>         out
>         why the test stopped. The BBOUT file is the first place to
>         look.
>         
>         > 3) like question 2 , how is the ftp check done? coz there is
>         a purple dod
>         > for one client for that check.. also ftp for other clients
>         are showing a 
>         > "-". How can i enable ftp check for those clients? 
>         
>         The "ftp" test (and those like it) are basic "open port"
>         checks. They
>         look to see if the relevant port is open, but don't test for
>         complex
>         functionality (which would take too long for most peoples
>         needs).
>         
>         For those tests that are empty (or purple) that you want to
>         tes! t,
>         add the ftp directive to the line for that host in the bb-
>         hosts
>         file. For the ones showing purple that you don't want to test,
>         remove the stale status files.
>         
>         Cheers, Phil.
>         
>         
>         
>         -- 
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>         people.
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