Re: {bb} Upgrading from bb1.9c to bb1.9h

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

On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 07:16, Isabel Robin wrote:
> Thank you for prompt response.  I appreciate it.

You're welcome :)

> The server installation went fine; however, since i didn't have
> the client software installed  all of my client tests turned purple
> (as you stated). I will install the client software and troubleshoot
> as needed to make this part work.  

That's the difficult bit done. Time for a beer.

> If i understand correctly, now that the new BB version (in my case
> bb1.h) requires to have both the server and the client software
> installed on the same box (for the client tests to work) we will
> have  both the bbd and the bb daemons running in parallel. Is this
> correct?

If I understand things correctly, it's just a little more complex
than that. The "bbd" part will run as a daemon, but the parts that
run periodically are handled by the "bbrun" binary. On a standard
(combined) server, there will be one that handles the creation of
the web interface (bb-display.sh) and one that runs the network
tests (bb-network.sh). Adding the client gives you another "bbrun"
process that handles the client tests (bb-local.sh).

> I have another question once i am ready to add new clients, how will
> I create the client tarball?  In bb1.9c i used to run the
> /usr/local/bigbrother/bb/install/bbclient client_name. For 1.9h do
> we use the original client software (i.e. BBCLT-bbc1.9h-btf.tar) or
> do we use a different mechanism?  Let me know.

For many people, this is now a simpler process when compared to the
old "bbclient" method. For each OS (with the same version) that you
have, unpack the client source tarball and compile on the required
machine. Then, all you need to do is pack up that directory, copy
it over to the other machines, unpack and configure. Effectively,
you can just use the "tar" command where you used to use "bbclient".
If you need to save a little bit of space, you should be able to
exclude the "src" and "install" directories when packing up the
compiled client. Alternatively, if all your machines have compilers
installed (and there are not too many of them) it's almost as quick
to compile the client on each of them.

Cheers, Phil.



-- 
It's not an optical illusion, it just looks like one. (Phil White)

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