RE: {bb} Display from remote BB

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

On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 01:53, Smith, Jim wrote:
> The bb-hosts files should be the same except for the BBDISPLAY, BBNET
> and BBNET tags.  You should be able to just copy the file from one to
> the other and make a few minor changes.
> 
> In the docs, it is suggested that the bb-hosts file be identical on
> every server where Big Brother is installed.

Except that, if your primary display is also a BBNET, the hosts
that are being tested by the second BB server should be listed
with only the "noconn" keyword in bb-hosts on the primary.

It also occurs to me that, if the second BB server is not
receiving messages from clients, there is no need to use the
relay method. It should be sufficient to list both servers as
displays on the second server. For example:

    # Primary bb-hosts
    10.1.1.2  primary.host.com # BBPAGER BBNET BBDISPLAY ftp pop3
    # second tests itself and does not display status from primary
    10.1.1.1  second.host.com # BBNET noconn
    # amach is tested by primary
    10.1.1.11  amach.host.com # ftp smtp
    # bmach is tested by second
    10.1.1.22  bmach.host.com # noconn

    # Second bb-hosts
    10.1.1.2  primary.host.com # BBPAGER BBNET BBDISPLAY noconn
    10.1.1.1  second.host.com # BBNET BBDISPLAY ssh dns
    # amach is tested by primary and not shown here
    # bmach is tested by second
    10.1.1.22  bmach.host.com # pop3 http://bmach.host.com/


Cheers, Phil.



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