Re: {bb} bb cpu and disk not displaying on the bbserver

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

On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 20:46, David Tam wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I just recently installed bbserver and a bbclient on a couple
> servers, bbserver displays everything except for the cpu and
> disk
> 
> Here is the line I have in my bb-hosts file on the client
> 
> 66.240.178.227  www102.mediaserve.net   # BBDISPLAY ftp pop3
>   smtp ssh cpu disk http://www102.mediaserve.net
> 
> The bb-hosts on the bbserver is the same.  
> 
> bb-dftab and bb-cputab on the client have also been configured.
> 
> Iptables have been turned off on both servers for this testing phase.

The line from bb-hosts should be more like:

66.240.178.227  www102.mediaserve.net   # BBDISPLAY BBNET BBPAGER ftp
  pop3 smtp ssh http://www102.mediaserve.net/

Specifically, unless you have another machine acting and as BBNET
and BBPAGER, you'll need to define one here in order to get
network tests and alert messages. The directives "cpu" and "disk"
are not required. Only network tests (and some external scripts)
need to be defined in bb-hosts. Although not necessary, a URL
should end in a filename or a "slash". Like most browsers, BB will
add one if you forget but it's still a good habit to get into.

The files bb-dftab and bb-cputab are not strictly necessary. BB
will use default values if they are not present, so I'd move them
out of the way until you have things working.

The first thing to check is that the client is actually running.
Check the contents of the BBOUT log file on the client side and
the output of the "ps" command to confirm this.

The next probable cause is that the client is not reporting with
the expected name (www102.mediaserve.net). Have a look in the
BBVAR/logs directory and see if there are logfiles being created
under another name. If this is the case, you can use the
etc/bbaliasname file (section 6.15 in the on-line manual) to
specify the required name.

Cheers, Phil.



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