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RE: [hobbit] Redundant Hobbit Servers
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- Subject: RE: [hobbit] Redundant Hobbit Servers
- From: "Kelley, Scott" <Scott.Kelley (at) disney.com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 09:25:09 -0700
- Thread-index: AcV2fBg5XFkU0flKTmGt1PICegOX2AAAKxlQ
- Thread-topic: [hobbit] Redundant Hobbit Servers
We are moving to running all our monitoring services in (VMWare) virtual
machines. The vm's are backed up each night to a NAS share.
If the physical server dies, no big deal I can just start the vm on
another host connected to the same SAN.
If the SAN dies (unlikely), I can restore the vm from the backup on some
other host.
We also run Sitescope, which alerts us if BigBrother/Hobbit dies (and
vice versa).
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Scott Kelley, Disney Enterprise IT Platform Services
-----Original Message-----
From: hobbit-return-2800-Scott.Kelley=disney.com (at) hswn.dk
[mailto:hobbit-return-2800-Scott.Kelley=disney.com (at) hswn.dk] On Behalf Of
Lowery, Michael
Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 9:13 AM
To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
Subject: [hobbit] Redundant Hobbit Servers
I'm interested in knowing what everyone is doing for redundancy. I
currently have 2 hobbit servers and each one performs the same tests as
the other.
I find this to be a bit wasteful and am looking for the active/passive
type of configuration that has been talked about on this list before.
This configuration works fine, except for alerting. In order to not be
overwhelmed by messages, I only have one hobbit server performing the
alerting task, the other only sends alerts on the other hobbit host.
I have considered using the "depends=" test, but then I have to maintain
two separate bb-hosts files, rather than copying and pasting from one to
the other.
Is there a better way than what I'm doing? My goal is to have both
servers configured the same, as much as possible, and have only one of
them at a time send me alerts.
I'd love to know what you guys are doing to get around these limits. I
could easily have missed something in the newest update that solves this
problem, but I haven't seen it yet.
Thanks for your thoughts on this subject.
Michael
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