Re: {bb} Custom Extensions

[Philip Clark <bblist@cannae.uklinux.net>]

On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 21:27, Collins, Kevin wrote:
> I've installed BB on a machine in my network and it's providing the basic "Yeah the machine is alive" kind of information.  In addition I have gotten paging and e-mail notifications working as I want them.  So the server is working just fine.
> 
> Now, I want to add RAID monitoring on several of my Dell servers.  So I went off to http://www.deadcat.net to find a script.  I did - bb-afaraid2.sh.  I followed what I thought was the proper method for setting up the client on a lab machine and waited for the "Afaraid" column to show up on the BB Server.  That was yesterday around 2:00 pm.  Nothing has shown up yet.
> 
> So obviously I've done something wrong.  Below is the step-by-step process that I used to install the client and the bb-afaraid2.sh extension.  Can somebody please tell me what I did wrong?
> 
> 1). Created a BB user "bbuser" with a home directory of "/home/bbuser".  
> 2). Copied over the client tarball, BBCLT-bbc1.9h-btf.rar, to bbuser's home directory.
> 3). As "bbuser", I untarred the tarball with "tar zvf BBCLT-bbc1.9h-btf.rar", this created a bbc1.9h-btf sub-directory.
> 4). Moved into that new subdirectory with "cd bbc1.9h-btf".
> 5). Switched into the ./install directory "cd install".
> 6). Typed "./bbconfig redhatES", which failed.  Fell back to "./bbconfig".  This detected that I was running redhatES anyway, so all's good.  I'm running RedHat ES 3 Update 5, BTW.
> 7). Answered all the questions as needed.
> 8). Built the client.  "cd ../src; make; make install" - I did that as three separate commands.
> 9). On the Server, I added the client to the $BBHOME/etc/bb-hosts file and copied to the client's $BBHOME/etc directory.
> 10). Edited the "bbdef.sh" and "bbdef-client.sh" files in $BBHOME/etc on the client as needed.
> 11). Ran "bbchkcfg.sh" and "bbchkhosts.sh" - everything was fine.
> 12). Created a link for ease of use: "ln -s bbc1.9h-btf bb"
> 13). Set the proper permissions: "chown -R bbuser:bbuser ."  <-- This I did as root
> 13). Started BB "/home/bbuser/bb/runbb.sh start"
> 
> To this point, everything appeared fine, The only thing I asked the server to monitor was connectivity and that was working.  So I then proceeded to install the extension.
> 
> 1). Downloaded and moved the "bb-afaraid2.sh" file into $BBHOME/ext.
> 2). Followed the directions inside the script to create the "seed" configuration, added "bbuser" to the sudoers file so the script could actually work.
> 3). Edited the $BBHOME/etc/bb-bbexttab.DIST file, make the following changes and saving as $BBHOME/etc/bb-bbexttab.
> =============================================================
>      Contents of bb-bbexttab:
>      romulas.nesbitt.local : : bb-afaraid2.sh
> =============================================================
> 4). Restarted the client.  Go the following message:
> =============================================================
>     Starting Big Brother
>              Starting external scripts
>                      Starting external script bb-afaraid2.sh
>              Starting Local tests (bb-local)...
>      Big Brother 1.9h started     
> =============================================================
> 5). Waited for the afaraid column to appear in on the server.
> 
> I'm still waiting.
> 
> Now, I am getting this in $BBHOME/BBOUT:
> 
> =============================================================
> Thu Sep 15 16:22:47 2005 bb-afaraid2.sh Thu Sep 15 16:22:47 2005 bb CAN'T CONNECT TO bbd SERVER @ 127.0.0.1
> Thu Sep 15 16:22:47 2005 bb-local.sh Thu Sep 15 16:22:47 2005 bb CAN'T CONNECT TO bbd SERVER @ 127.0.0.1
> =============================================================
> 
> Does this mean I have to install the server on the client machine as well???  The way I read the README.INSTALL, I wasn't lead to believe so.
> 
> 
> Any guidance would be great.

If the server line in your bb-hosts file looks something like:

  127.0.0.1 localhost # BBPAGER BBNET BBDISPLAY

you need to replace the loopback IP/name with the real IP/name
of your BB server. The client needs to know where to send the
data. It's also probably worth checking that Red Hat hasn't
installed the default firewall software. Using "telnet" from
client to server on port 1984 is the recommended way to test
this.

Cheers, Phil.



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