Re: {bb} simple question - network test on server or client

[Frank Timmers <frank.timmers@philips.com>]

owner-bb@bb4.com wrote on 2006-03-15 02:18:26:

> I have a simple question that I am not clearly seeing in reading the
> docs.  Does the client software have to be installed to monitor 
> machines for simple ping? ....just checking the network.
> 
> Also, if that is possible....does the bb-client have to be installed
> on the machine that is going to be:
> BBDISPLAY BBPAGER

No, the ping/network tests are done by the bb-server installation. You 
need to add the keyword BBNET keyword to the line of your server
eg.:

192.168.0.1     mybbserver.mydomain     # BBDISPLAY BBPAGER BBNET

This will tell big brother (the server instance) to run the bb-network.sh 
test.


Greetings,
/Frank.
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