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alerts. From what he’s indicating, it doesn’t look like he’s
too concerned about the display (unless he has a bunch of web pages up at once
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Josh Luthman
[mailto:josh@imaginenetworksllc.com] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Thursday, November 01, 2007
5:12 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">hobbit@hswn.dk</st1:PersonName><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [hobbit] big brother
replacement</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>I see what you're saying,
but you still have to manually specify which server you're connecting to.
If the bb1.domain.tld can not be reached the techs have to manually enter
bb2.domain.tld - correct?<br>
<br>
I know of several BB ext scripts that work perfectly with Hobbit and even more
then just needed a small weak. Would you be able to post the entire ext
script? Hopefully Henrik is willing to answer your $64 question =) <br>
<br>
Josh<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmailquote><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>On 11/1/07, <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sloan</span></b>
<<a href="mailto:joe@tmsusa.com">joe@tmsusa.com</a>> wrote:</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Tod Hansmann wrote:<br>
> Let me see if I understand. You have several bb servers at one<br>
> datacenter, each with their twin at the other datacenter, and both sets<br>
> do the tests. They report to one central display server, but
only one <br>
> set reports at a time, depending on failover state, correct?<br>
><br>
You have the basic idea, but there is no single central server, just<br>
pairs of bb servers, one to a data center, in each lan which is being <br>
monitored. For each pair of bb servers, only the server at data center A<br>
does reporting, unless the server in data center B cannot reach the<br>
server in data center A, in which case the server in data center B will <br>
take over the reporting duties until the bb server in data center A<br>
becomes reachable again. While this could theoretically lead to a split<br>
brain condition, the failover condition has only ever triggered when<br>
there was a wan outage.<br>
<br>
> Is this failover automatic? If so, how is this failover
determined?<br>
> What if this failover has a false positive? If not, what is
your<br>
> timeframe to swap over?<br>
><br>
<br>
IIRC It takes one bb cycle to kick in.<br>
<br>
We've not seen a false positive, as I mentioned above.<br>
<br>
It's just the standard built-in bb failover -<br>
<br>
head ~bb/ext/failover follows:<br>
<br>
#!/bin/sh<br>
<br>
# failover<br>
#<br>
# BIG BROTHER - FAILOVER SCRIPT<br>
# Sean MacGuire<br>
#<br>
# (c) Copyright Quest Software, Inc. 1997-2003 All rights
reserved.<br>
#<br>
<br>
#<br>
# failover WATCHES BBNET and BBPAGER<br>
#<br>
# IF BBNET OR BBPAGER BECOMES UNAVAILABLE, THEN TAKE OVER UNTIL THEY RETURN <br>
#<br>
# To use, just add failover to the BBEXT variable in etc/bbdef.sh<br>
#<br>
# To configure BBPAGER failover:<br>
# define both the primary and failover machines as BBPAGERS in etc/bb-hosts<br>
# and set bbwarn: FAILOVER in etc/bbwarnsetup.cfg <br>
<br>
<br>
Joe<br>
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