RE: {bb} BB-ssh.txt HELPcat bb_mailing!

["Todd Seidenberg" <todds@vitesse.com>]

Thanks,


It turns out that I had a few problems, the most important of which was
that bb on the dmzclient was a link to bb-file.sh, which was a script
that came with the bb-fetch package.  I forgot to unlink it, and put the
original bb binary back.  Now that its back, all works as advertised.  


So you were right, bb wasn't handling the message correctly.

- Thanks for your help.

- Todd
 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-bb@bb4.com [mailto:owner-bb@bb4.com] On Behalf Of Philip
Clark
Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 2:03 PM
To: bb@bb4.com
Subject: Re: {bb} BB-ssh.txt HELPcat bb_mailing!

On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 17:59, Todd Seidenberg wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> 
> 
> I've been trying to get BB reporting to work across a firewall. I'm 
> following the instructions listed on BB-ssh.txt, from deadcat.net.
> 
> Currently,
> 
> I am correctly forwarding port 1984 to the DMZ machine, like this: 
> 
> (this is a ps output on my BBDISPLAY machine:)
> 
> ssh -fnNR 1984:bb-server:1984 dmzmachine
> 
> I have verified that I can ssh, as my bb user, from my BBDISPLAY 
> machine to my dmzmachine, without entering a password.
> 
> So I know this is working...
> 
> 
> on the DMZ machine, I am running the BB client. In the 
> $BBHOME/etc/bb-hosts file on the dmzmachine, i have the following
entry:
> 
> 127.0.0.1  dmzmachines.domain.com # BBDISPLAY
> 
> 
> The bbclient is running on the dmzmachine. 
> 
> 
> Yet, I don't get anything on my actual BBDISPLAY. I just get purple
messages.
> 
> I've tried running the following command: 
> 
> 
> 
> $BBHOME/bb 127.0.0.1 'status dmzclient.domain.com.disk green `date` - 
> <FONT COLOR="green">I GOT IT!</FONT>'
> 
> which just gives me a prompt back, but the BBDISPLAY still doesn't get

> the message.

If I do the following:

  cd /usr/local/bb/bbc1.9i-btf
  export BBHOME=/usr/local/bb/bbc1.9i-btf
  . etc/bbdef.sh
  $BB 127.0.0.1 'status dmzclient,domain,com.disk green `date` - I GOT
IT!'

It responds with:

  Tue Oct 10 20:10:25 2006 bb CAN'T CONNECT TO bbd SERVER @ 127.0.0.1

The fact that you're not seeing that suggests that the message is being
forwarded correctly, but is not being handled correctly by the display
machine. Note the use of commas in the domain name. The only dot is
between the name and the test and your example used dots everywhere.
Note also that I removed the HTML tag. BB may mess with those unless you
configure it not to. For the client binary to work properly, it is also
necessary to source the BB environment (as shown).


> I assumed, that with a.) the dmzmachine thinking its the DISPLAY host,

> it will know to forward the BB message to port 1984.  And since that 
> port is forwarded to the ACTUAL BBDISPLAY, it will show up. But for 
> some reason it doesn't.
> 
> Any thoughts on things I can check? Do I need the the bbd daemon 
> running on dmzclient if it thinks its a BBDISPLAY box? If so, doesn't 
> this mean I need the server piece installed as well?

Installing another BB server in the DMZ would be an alternative method
to achieve a similar result, but port forwarding removes the need to do
that. 

Probably the first thing to check is the contents of $BBVAR/logs on your
display server. I noticed that you refer to the remote client (fake
server) as dmzmachine; dmzmachines.domain.com and as
dmzclient.domain.com. I fully expect that the real name of the machine
is none of these, but you need to be consistent (including case).
If you check the "logs" directory, you may be able to see status files
that correspond to the DMZ client but are using a name that is different
from the one used in bb-hosts on the (real) display server.

Cheers, Phil.



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