VMWare and Xen Management with BixData

[radox]

I will running Bixdata on a single machine with host being linux unbuntu and guest
being windows2003 which part of the howto should I follow?

radox

[falko]

I think you must install the BixData agent on the same system as the server.

[radox]

thanks for your post

I installed agent and server on the linux host

I have now arrived at the point in the howto where i am in the bixdata connections
screen where i place my IP from my router which in this case is 192.168.1.64

but the log shows
<11/06/06 20:42:14> Launched BixDesktop
<11/06/06 20:45:00> Connecting to 192.168.1.64:7071
<11/06/06 20:45:01> Connecting to 192.168.1.64:7071
<11/06/06 20:45:01> Can't connect to 192.168.1.64:7071
<11/06/06 20:45:10> Connecting to 192.168.1.64:7071
<11/06/06 20:45:10> Connecting to 192.168.1.64:7071
<11/06/06 20:45:10> Can't connect to 192.168.1.64:7071

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[Jed]

perhaps bixagent is not running on 192.168.1.64
(check with ps aux | grep bixagent)
Try to install a bixagent on the same box as bixdesktop, and see if you can connect.

Almost always this is a problem because agent is not running, or the machine you are trying to reach is behind a firewall / nat.

[radox]

ok this is what i got how . should i loginto to the bixserver ?
you can see the 192.168.1.64 below which is my router.

The other entry are a little strange as i have vmware onlinux with windows 20003 guest which has a NAT connection with IP address of 172.16.0.128 and default gateway
of 172.16.0.2

vmware was NOT runing when i issued the command
alex@xstation:~/bixdata/bixagent$ ./bixagent &

alex@xstation:~$ cd bixdata/bixagent
alex@xstation:~/bixdata/bixagent$ ./bixagent &
[1] 12018
alex@xstation:~/bixdata/bixagent$ BixAgent version 2.6; Copyright 2004 - 2006 (http://www.bixdata.com)
Using data path: /home/alex/bixdata/bixagent/data/
Warning, missing x509 or private key file. Generating new files
Public Key Signature D076D089B885ACB86B2CAC63D4F7736F6E2C1237
SMART :: Unable to obtain read access to /dev/hda (13) [-1]
SMART plugin :: Unable to enable native SMART support
sh: /usr/local/sbin/smartctl: No such file or directory
Authentication disabled
Own default port 17070
Auto enumerating interfaces
Found Interface 127.0.0.1
Creating listener on 127.0.0.1:17070
Found Interface 192.168.1.64
Creating listener on 192.168.1.64:17070
Found Interface 172.16.0.1
Creating listener on 172.16.0.1:17070
Found Interface 172.16.163.1
Creating listener on 172.16.163.1:17070

[Jed]

yes that looks like the agent is running fine except for the SMART plugin which you probably don't need.

[radox]

thanks for your post but you did not answer my question

after starting bixdata agent as i have shown in my last post what next?
when i run bixdata server
there are two boxes
server
agent
QUESTION 1
it seems that that IS SOMETHING GOING NO HERE OI WAS UNAWARE OF.

if you look at the last post you will see an entry for 172.16.0.1 what is that
as there are many process running on that
I thought it a NAT connection on my vmware but its not as that IP is 172.16.0.128
and default gateway 172.16.0.2
RATHER than one sentence replies please say a little more?

QUESTION2

why is it neccessary to run bixdate agent before running
bixdata server?