[hobbit] xymon ready to replace bb?
T.J. Yang
tj_yang at hotmail.com
Sun Mar 29 03:21:03 CEST 2009
knowledge in text format is the lowest common denominator.
It keep you out of wiki dialects headache ;)
tj
> Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 09:33:38 -0400
> From: josh at imaginenetworksllc.com
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: Re: [hobbit] xymon ready to replace bb?
>
> I would send it here. This is pushed to people and stored by Henrik
> who couldn't be more tied to Xymon. Great begining and will last
> forever :)
>
> On 3/28/09, Martin Flemming <martin.flemming at desy.de> wrote:
> >
> > Hi, Harald !
> >
> > .. good question ... but it should not be a religious question .. :-)
> >
> > .. but i think, in both ways, you need a registration for the
> > rights to append your notes ...
> >
> > So obvisously, it should the best way for all Xymon's to have one
> > and only Wiki/Howto Side ...
> >
> > For Xymonton would be Galen the right person ....
> >
> >> Or shall I send it directly to the list
> >
> > hmm, maybe the quickest solution ...
> >
> >
> > thanks & cheers,
> >
> > martin
> >
> > On Fri, 27 Mar 2009, Husemann, Harald wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Martin,
> >>
> >> I can of course write a doc about our setup to share my experiences. As I
> >> saw, there was a bit of a discussion about the right place for it, so,
> >> question to the list:
> >> Where shall I upload it? Or shall I send it directly to the list, and
> >> someone
> >> (TJ?) picks it + includes it?
> >>
> >> hh
> >>
> >> Martin Flemming schrieb:
> >>> Hi, Harald !
> >>>
> >>> > Xymon with Linux HA cluster with DRBD
> >>>
> >>> did you make some doku's or notes for it ?
> >>>
> >>> .. there is an old thread from Februar but unfortunatley no notes till
> >>> this moment ...
> >>>
> >>> http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2009/02/msg00146.html
> >>>
> >>> But there is already some place for it :-)
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon/Administration_Guide#Hobbit_in_HA
> >>>
> >>> HA-LAN using LinuxHA and DRBD
> >>>
> >>> [edit]
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> If you have some notes, please contact T.J. Yang <tj_yang at hotmail.com>
> >>> to submit it to the wiki
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> cheers,
> >>>
> >>> Martin
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> ______________________________________________________
> >>> Martin Flemming
> >>> DESY / IT office : Building 2b / 008a
> >>> Notkestr. 85 phone : 040 - 8998 - 4667
> >>> 22603 Hamburg mail : martin.flemming at desy.de
> >>> ______________________________________________________
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, 26 Mar 2009, Husemann, Harald wrote:
> >>>
> >>> > Hi,
> >>> >
> >>> > for the failover part, what about using a real cluster like Linux HA
> >>> > cluster with DRBD? I've setup such a system a few weeks ago for us.
> >>> >
> >>> > hh
> >>> >
> >>> > Ralph Mitchell schrieb:
> >>> > > Take a look at the Xymon alert man page:
> >>> > >
> >>> > >
> >>> > > http://www.hswn.dk/hobbit/help/manpages/man5/hobbit-alerts.cfg.5.html
> >>> > >
> >>> > > You can specify a script to be executed for any given alert. The
> >>> > > ALERT
> >>> > > SCRIPTS section in the man page gives details of the environment
> >>> > > variables
> >>> > > passed in with the the alert information. So, you could write a
> >>> > > script to
> >>> > > send snmp traps.
> >>> > >
> >>> > > I don't know about alert failover.
> >>> > >
> >>> > > Ralph Mitchell
> >>> > >
> >>> > > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 9:07 PM, J Sloan <joe at tmsusa.com> wrote:
> >>> > >
> >>> > >
> >>> > > After a bit of a hiatus from bb/hobbit/xymon issues, I'm looking
> >>> > > at
> >>> > > it
> >>> > > again.
> >>> > >
> >>> > > I've grabbed a copy of xymon-4.4.0 svn and set it up on a test
> >>> > > server
> >>> > > here - very nice.
> >>> > >
> >>> > > As hope springs eternal, I'm again hoping to replace our aging big
> >>> > > brother servers with xymon, since it's the closest thing to a
> >>> > > drop-in
> >>> > > replacement. Hopefully xymon can be made to do some specific
> >>> > > things
> >>> > > that
> >>> > > bb does, which we depend on here, namely:
> >>> > >
> >>> > > 1. snmp traps - this is just a basic requirement to send out an
> >>> > > snmp
> >>> > > trap
> >>> > > on an alert. We have no need to receive snmp traps, only to send
> >>> > > them, as
> >>> > > big brother does. We depend on that behavior to generate tickets
> >>> > > by
> >>> > > sending traps to netcool whenever there is a bb alert condition.
> >>> > >
> >>> > > 2. alerting failover - we have redundant bb servers are set up, in
> >>> > >
> >>> > > pairs.
> >>> > > each pair of bb servers monitors certain network segments, while
> >>> > > only one
> >>> > > of the pair is designated as the bbpager, i.e. only one of the
> >>> > > pair
> >>> > > sends
> >>> > > out alerts. But, should the passive bbpager be unable to reach the
> >>> > > normally active bbpager, failover kicks in, and the normally
> >>> > > passive
> >>> > > server begins sending out all alerts. Worst case, we have a split
> >>> > > brain
> >>> > > condition and get 2 copies of an alert, but in practice, that's
> >>> > > only
> >>> > > happened a handful of times since 2005.
> >>> > >
> >>> > > Can xymon 4.4.0 do these things, or is there a way to implement
> >>> > > this
> >>> > > behavior with some appropriate add-ons?
> >>> > >
> >>> > > Joe
> >>> > >
> >
> >
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> >
>
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