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I've got Big Brother 1.9 Server side installed and running on a Fedore Core 2 machine. I've got another machine running Suse 9.1 with Big Brother Client side installed. I am able to see from the webpage on the Big Brother Server that CONN SMTP SSH and other network service stuff is ok, but when I try to configure my bb-hosts file so that Big Brother will monitor CPU and DISK it never shows up. Here is my bb-hosts file that is on both machines
page MUS MUS Servers
group <H3><I>MUS Servers</I></H3>
192.168.1.4 tc-bigbrother.domain.local # BBPAGER BBNET BBDISPLAY smtp cpu disk ssh
192.168.11.2 tc-filter.domain.local # ssh smtp cpu disk
Anyone know why the disk and cpu won't show up?? If you need anymore info let me know.
Distribution: Debian, Red Hat, Slackware, Fedora, Ubuntu
Posts: 13,602
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Did you update the security file to allow incoming bbclient messages? See security.DIST for more info. Did you also verify that the bb client in running (and do you see any errors if so)?
I didn't have a security file, but the security.DIST says that if you don't have one then anyone can contact the server. So I don't think that was the problem. Just to troubleshoot I made one anyway. I got my BB server to show its disk and cpu and msgs stuff. I installed the client on the BB server. Stupid me. Anyway, the webfilter bb client still wont let BB server monitor its disk and cpu, but it does show ssh and conn. Is it because it's SUSE 9.1?? One difference I notice between the Suse client and Fedore Core 2 is that Suse's bbsys.local file doesn't have to much in it.
Distribution: Debian, Red Hat, Slackware, Fedora, Ubuntu
Posts: 13,602
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The BB client does not report on things like ssh (or any net test). Basically it works like this:
The BB Server does all network related tests from its end.
The BB client performs cpu, disk, and all local tests and then reports them to the server.
So you should have the BB client installed on any machine you want disk/cpu monitored on and then the BBserver (and possibly the client also) on a central server. Are you getting any message in BBOUT on either the client or the server?
For the BB Server's server side i get this for BBOUT
Starting Big Brother Daemon (bbd) ...
Starting Network tests (bb-network) ...
Starting Display process (bb-display)...
Big Brother 1.9e startd
For the BB Server's client side i get this for BBOUT
Starting Local tests (bb-local) ...
Big Brother 1.9e started
For the Webfilter servers' client side i get this for BBOUT
bb CAN'T CONNECT TO bbd Server @ BB server's IP address
bb-local.sh /home/bb/bbc1.9e-btf/bin/bb-local.sh: line 104: /home/bb/bbc1.9e-btf/bb-combo.sh: No such file or directory
Theres tons of these messages in Webfilter servers client side BBOUT.
Thanks for telling me to look at this. I will look it up on google. Let me know if you know how to fix it and I will post if I find the reason.
Last edited by Osiris123d; 09-15-2004 at 11:22 AM.
One new thing I noticed is that if I'm on the BB server and do a
telnet 192.168.1.4 1984
it connects for about 5 seconds, but if I do it from any other machine I get a
Trying 192.168.1.4...
telnet: connect to address 192.168.1.4: No route to host
Solved it. My BB server's firewall was on. So I just added the port 1984 into my firewall and its working now. I can see the disk and cpu on the Webfilter server. Now I just need to get my windows server to show it's disk and cpu. You wouldn't have any clue on that would you?
Hi Guys,
I am trying to add columns for disk and cpu monitoring on big brother display.
I have seen a post here for that, but I didn't get what exactly done.
so just posting this one.
Right nw the big brother server not showing cpu/disk columns.
What extra settings I will have to do?
I already have the scripts for both disk and cpu. And the big brother client software is running on it.
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