RE: {bb} Complex BB configuration using BBRELAY

["Alon Ofek" <AlonO@BEZEQINT.CO.IL>]

Well, Following are my tests results:

1. In BBOUT, on all machines, I see nothing more then startup and
shutdown messages
2. I did all network connectivity tests. All clients are able to connect
to their local BBDISPLAY server (TCP port 1984) and all "slaves"
BBDISPLAY can connect to the MASTER BBDISPLAY
3. On the BB SLAVE DISPLAY I can see all local clients' logs and can
(added HTTPD) see all monitored clients via browser on the BBDISPLAY
SLAVE server
4. On the MASTER I see no logs from any of the monitored device.
5. If I add "BBRELAY" on the SLAVE client bb-hosts then I can see the
BBDISPLAY itself only on the MASTER as a monitor device.
6. All local machines on each segment and their BBDISPLAY share the same
bb-hosts. The master BBDISPLAY has all BBDISPLAY slaves bb-hosts file on
one big bb-hosts file divided into pages' and 'sub pages'
7. The master BBDISPLAY also has one hosts segment that report directly
to it. Theses hosts do not have "slave" BBDISPAY. These hosts show fine
on the master BBDISPLAY


I triple checked all my configurations but still have no idea why the
BBRELAY command doesn't seems to work.
The best I could get is that the BBDISPLAY slave server reported to the
MASTER about it own status but not relayed any client's messages.

Please help,
Alon





-----Original Message-----
From: owner-bb@bb4.com [mailto:owner-bb@bb4.com] On Behalf Of Richard
Warkentin
Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 2:26 AM
To: bb@bb4.com
Subject: Re: {bb} Complex BB configuration using BBRELAY

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bbrelay not working as expected
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Your configuration looks ok, we need to do some debug to narrow down the

search.

Which version and os are you using?  Current versions of BB require 
both  the server and client to be installed on the display server but 
eariler BB's were bundled into the same source package.

1) What is displayed on the "master" bb server?

2) Can you view the entries on "bb-server-a"?   (i.e. apache installed,
bb 
server correctly setup and a network path?)  If yes, view it and see
what 
things look like.


You can stop doing these tests when you have enough information to fix
the 
problem.

3) Did you open the firewall on (probably) port 1984?


4) Review the BBOUT logs on all the clients and the servers.  for the 
servers, review both the logs for client and server.

5) On the both the servers, check the log files in ../bbvar/logs.  you 
should have files with names something like hostname.test.  If the files

with serveral tests for each client, you're nearly there.  (this is
another 
way of doing step 1) and 2) but doesn't require a functioning web
server)


6) confirm network activity from the "clients" to their respective 
bbdisplay server.
    From 10.10.1.1
     telent 10.10.1.254 1984

Because of a belief that security is improved, BB intentionally does not

respond to messages sent to the server.  The normal (working) response
to 
the telnet command is an apparent "hang" with no response for a period
of 
time with know response.  Failures may appear as an immediate failure to

connect, complete wit an error message or a timeout.  If this
description 
doesn't make sense, than do some tests on the display servers before 
testing on the client.  Like this.

on 10.10.1.254, do a test that will fail.

telnet 127.0.0.1 1985  (you almost certainly are not using port 1985)
You 
should get a failure to connect something like
#telnet 127.0.0.1 1985
Connecting To 127.0.0.1...Could not open connection to the host, on port

1985: Connect failed

Now try to 1984 to confirm the server is running and accepting messages.

if you still need help after doing these steps, post the results and
we'll 
see where to go from there.

At 10:03 AM 11/1/2005, you wrote:
>Hello everyone,
>I am trying to run a "complex" BB configuration with no success:
>
>I have Main BB machine that collect all BB events and runs the HTTPD 
>and  BBDISPLAY.
>This host is behind FW and has legal IP address.
>This host is used to monitor all BBNET hosts that have external
Internet 
>access (like web servers or e-mail servers).
>
>Now, I have 3 completely separate sites, each one is on different
segment 
>(for now but another site on the same segment may be added) with
internal, 
>not legal IP addresses. On each site I have local BB server that has no

>web server on it.
>The local server is configured to get all data from monitor elements 
>(hosts) in his local site.
>Each local BB server should send all data to the MASTER BB server. The 
>connection to the MASTER is done using NAT so the MASER sees only the
NAT 
>IP address and not the "real" IP address.
>
>The problem is that it doesn't work. I don't see any messages sending
from 
>the BB local servers to the MASTER (using 'tcpdump port 1984').
>I have tried all kind of configuration found on the mailing list but
still 
>haven't found the configuration that will work.
>Please, if you have, send me a sample configuration files for 
>Master/Slave/Client.
>Here are samples from my bb-hosts config files:
>
>MASTER:
>group-compress  <H3><I>BB Display Server</I></H3>
>62.62.62.62        MASTER # BBPAGER BBNET BBDISPLAY
>
>page SITE ONE A (this should comes from the BB server A)
>group-compress  Local Site A
>10.10.1.254 BB-SERVER-A # noconn
>10.10.1.1 db # noconn
>10.10.1.2 app # noconn
>
>page SITE TWO B (this should comes from the BB server B)
>group-compress  Local Site B
>10.20.1.254 BB-SERVER-B # noconn
>10.20.2.1 db # noconn
>10.20.2.2 app # noconn
>
>ON BB Server A
>
>10.10.2.254 BB-SERVER-A  # BBNET BBDISPLAY BBRELAY:62.62.62.62
>10.20.1.1 db #
>10.10.1.2 #
>
>10.20.1.254 BB-SERVER-B # noconn
>ON B Client (say db)
>
>10.10.2.254 BB-SERVER-A  # BBNET BBDISPLAY
>10.20.1.1 db #
>10.10.1.2 #
>
>On BB server B I have the same as BB server A (with the necessary
changes)
>
>
>What I do wrong?
>
>Many thanks,
>Alon
>
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