Is there a multi-computer tracking for WCG like HFM.net is to F@H ??

[Markfw]

So I installed boinc on the monitoring machine, and ran the command for get_cc_status, and it says can't connect.

 

[Kiska]

Ummm......... I am going to try this on the fly here. So I am going to spin up a Windows aws instance now to test this. Hopefully it will be sufficient. I am now running on fumes, in the morning I am going to regret what I have typed....


EDIT: It has been so long since I had to use Windows to do remote BOINC administration, that I am now getting the same issues, but I am on the move, and frequently drop off the mobile network

 

[Kiska]

Fixed!
So select any field here:

Then goto any tab, I went to tasks, it should turn grey for a second. Make sure your firewalls are set to accept all BOINC connections, when you do this. It should now connect. Another quirk for this piece of software
@Markfw

 

[Markfw]

doesn't work

 

[Kiska]

doesn't work

REALLY?!
Can you post the first 30 lines of the startup events. You can select them in the event viewer

Or does it say something like this in event viewer?

20/02/2017 9:06:08 AM |  | Config: GUI RPC allowed from any host

 

[Markfw]

what is the file name of the startup events ? or where in the navigation, I don't see anything obvious.

 

[Kiska]

what is the file name of the startup events ? or where in the navigation, I don't see anything obvious.

The file is called: stdoutdae.txt is where BOINC outputs logs

 

[Markfw]

Well, it can't see cc_config,xml, so why not ?? see below

http://imgur.com/a/zn94J

 

[Markfw]

ahhh. I figured it out. Good old windows (without showing file extensions) named my file cc_config.xml.txt. I showed extensions, then renamed, and BAM, now it shows up for one computer, now to add the other 3.

But now, it doesn't show me anything other than BOINC is running, no progress, ppd or the like for that computer.

Edit: I just had to wait a bit....

 

[StefanR5R]

Nice that it's working for you now. I ventured into such config editing for BOINC myself only just recently and have to say that quite a bit of it is rather obscure. At least at first.

 

[Markfw]

I have not found a rule yet that works, and still keep the firewall on. So for now its off. The rule I have is that any computer from 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.100 can come in, but that does not work.

Edit: OOPS, it shows my second computer, but no projects or tasks or any other tabs for that one.

 

[StefanR5R]

On my BOINC workers with Win 7 Pro, the following rules were added to Windows Firewall after I acknowledged the mentioned requester which popped up automatically when BOINC was started with the edited cc_config.xml:

• no outbound rules
• two inbound rules: one for protocol = UDP, the other for TCP, rest of the rule properties are identical between these two rules
• name: "BOINC client", description: "BOINC client"
  
• group: empty
• profile: "Private"
• enabled: "Yes"
  
• action: "Allow"
• override: "No"
• program: "C:\program files\boinc\boinc.exe"
• local IP address: "Any"
• remote IP address: "Any"
• protocol: as noted, one rule with "UDP", another with "TCP"
• local port: "All ports"
• remote port: "All ports"
• authorized users: empty (all users)
  
• authorized computers: empty (all computers)

Mind you, just specifying two such rules may not be enough, as I suppose that there may be interactions with other rules and settings. However, I never really had to deal with firewalls in general and Windows Firewall in particular, hence can't give proper advice. On Windows, I have relied on the built-in firewall to poke enough holes on request whenever I launched a respective program the first time. On the single openSUSE box which I have since half a year, I eventually switched the built-in firewall off because I didn't have time to learn how to add the rules that I needed at the time.

PS, so far I am using F@H and BOINC remote GUIs only at home in a simple private, unsegmented network with static IP addresses and without domain controller.

 

[Markfw]

Alright ! thanks, I now have the firewall back in, and everything is up !

 

[Kiska]

Thats great news!