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> Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 21:14:19 -0400<BR>> From: pnixon@gmail.com<BR>> To: hobbit@hswn.dk<BR>> Subject: Re: [hobbit] Intelligent alerting across multiple servers?<BR>> <BR>> Oh wow, I must have been in space when I thought about that.<BR>> <BR>> In the standard hobbit-alerts, you are not able to do what I just mentioned.<BR>> <BR>> However, using an external paging script, you can use the 'bb query<BR>> HOSTNAME.TESTNAME' command, get the status from secondary server2 for<BR>> primary server1 and send the alert to it's destination if server1 is<BR>> down. Otherwise discard the alert.<BR><BR>
This is a very creative approach !!<BR>
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Hopefully, Henrik can implement this idea in C source code layer.<BR>
Before that happened customized external script in perl or shell script can do the work too.<BR>
<BR>> <BR>> Sorry for the bad lead.<BR><BR>
np problem, thanks for the pointer.<BR>
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tj<BR>
<BR>> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 12:48 PM, T.J. Yang<tj_yang@hotmail.com> wrote:<BR>> ><BR>> > ----------------------------------------<BR>> >> Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 09:02:45 -0400<BR>> >> From: pnixon@gmail.com<BR>> >> To: hobbit@hswn.dk<BR>> >> Subject: Re: [hobbit] Intelligent alerting across multiple servers?<BR>> >><BR>> >> Wouldn't it be better on the secondary server(s) to put a conditional<BR>> >> statement in the alert rules that if the primary server is online not<BR>> >> to alert?<BR>> >><BR>> >> I'm pretty sure the rules can handle that.<BR>> ><BR>> > This is new to me, would you mind to elaborate more on how to do this kind of alert configuration file in hobbit-alerts.cfg ?<BR>> ><BR>> > tj<BR>> >> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 8:32 AM, T.J. Yang wrote:<BR>> >>>> Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:15:14 +0100<BR>> >>>> From: j.sansford@ntlworld.com<BR>> >>>> To: hobbit@hswn.dk<BR>> >>>> Subject: [hobbit] Intelligent alerting across multiple servers?<BR>> >>>><BR>> >>>> Hello everyone,<BR>> >>>><BR>> >>>> We have 3 Xymon servers communicating together and I have noticed they are<BR>> >>>> clever enough to communicate enable/disables across the board. For example<BR>> >>>> if I was to disable a check on the gui from one xymon server it will<BR>> >>>> communicate this with the other 2 and blue them out automatically.<BR>> >>><BR>> >>> I have a two servers setting for redunancy.<BR>> >>> This is a new feature to me as a hobbit 4.2.0 user, which version are you<BR>> >>> using ?<BR>> >>><BR>> >>> for blue(maintenance mode) records cloning from one server to the other, we<BR>> >>> need to dump the blue records on primary and rsync the blue records to<BR>> >>> secondary and finally reimport blue records into secondary.<BR>> >>><BR>> >>><BR>> >>>> I was wondering if there is something similar for the alerts? We have 3<BR>> >>>> xymons for redundancy however as far as I can tell if I set up the alerts<BR>> >>>> config on all 3 then we are going to get 3x identical alerts. Is there any<BR>> >>>> way they can talk to each other and only send out one?<BR>> >>><BR>> >>> To avoid alert duplication from secondary servers with hobbit 4.2.0 , we<BR>> >>> need to write a perl script to check primary from secondary. if primary has<BR>> >>> outage of network connection or hobbit server is down then we enable alert<BR>> >>> module of secondary hobbbit server. at any given time only one hobbit server<BR>> >>> is allowed to send out alerts.<BR>> >>><BR>> >>> So are you configuring all your hobbit clients to send message to all three<BR>> >>> servers ?<BR>> >>> This not a concern for a LAN setting but it may become a problem if the<BR>> >>> deployment is at the scale of thousands of clients and sending message<BR>> >>> across WAN the has smaller wan pipe.<BR>> >>><BR>> >>><BR>> >>> tj<BR>> >>><BR>> >>>> Many thanks<BR>> >>>> James<BR>> >>>><BR>> >>>> To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to<BR>> >>>> hobbit-unsubscribe@hswn.dk<BR>> >>>><BR>> >>>><BR>> >>><BR>> >>><BR>> >>> ________________________________<BR>> >>> Bing™ brings you maps, menus, and reviews organized in one place. Try it<BR>> >>> now.<BR>> >><BR>> >> To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to<BR>> >> hobbit-unsubscribe@hswn.dk<BR>> >><BR>> >><BR>> ><BR>> > _________________________________________________________________<BR>> > NEW mobile Hotmail. Optimized for YOUR phone. Click here.<BR>> > http://windowslive.com/Mobile?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_CS_MB_new_hotmail_072009<BR>> > To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to<BR>> > hobbit-unsubscribe@hswn.dk<BR>> ><BR>> ><BR>> ><BR>> <BR>> To unsubscribe from the hobbit list, send an e-mail to<BR>> hobbit-unsubscribe@hswn.dk<BR>> <BR>> <BR><BR><br /><hr />Windows Live™ Hotmail®: Celebrate the moment with your favorite sports pics. <a href='http://www.windowslive.com/Online/Hotmail/Campaign/QuickAdd?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_QA_HM_sports_photos_072009&cat=sports' target='_new'>Check it out.</a></body>
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