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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">We have 2 proxy servers that have the proxy on 1984 and the server on 1985. Then on the master xymon server in tasks.cfg we have:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Note the note. If you send it to the proxy port, and the proxy port sends back to the master server, bad things happen. Very bad.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"># "distribute" forwards enable/disable/drop/rename messages to other Xymon servers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"># You would use it when running Xymon in an active/passive (master/slave) configuration.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"># I.e. one Xymon server is the primary server where users manage their hosts; the
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"># other acts as a backup in case the primary server is down. This module then makes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"># sure that all of the administrative commands are forwarded to the backup (slave)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"># system.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"># NOTE: xymond_distribute does NOT check if a message is looping between servers that<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"># forward to each other. So take care not to create forwarding loops.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">[distribute]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"># DISABLED<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> ENVFILE /usr/lib64/xymon/server/etc/xymonserver.cfg<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> NEEDS xymond<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"> CMD xymond_channel --channel=enadis --log=$XYMONSERVERLOGS/distribute.log xymond_distribute --peer=10.20.30.40:1985 --peer=10.20.30.40:1985<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces@xymon.com]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Ralph Mitchell<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, December 17, 2014 3:14 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Roland Soderstrom<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Xymon mailinglist<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Xymon] Mutiple Xymon Servers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">Way back, I wrote a couple of scripts to propagate the "disabled" status from one Xymon server to another. T.J.Yang made some improvements, which you'll find here:<br>
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<a href="http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon/Other_Docs/HOWTO#Replicate_blue_record_from_Xymon_A_to_Xymon_B">http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon/Other_Docs/HOWTO#Replicate_blue_record_from_Xymon_A_to_Xymon_B</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">I don't have an HA Xymon setup, so I don't know if this was obsoleted by changes in Xymon since 2009, but back then the disable messages weren't being propagated from one Xymon server to the other.<br>
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Ralph Mitchell<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 3:36 PM, Roland Soderstrom <<a href="mailto:Rolands@logicaltech.com.au" target="_blank">Rolands@logicaltech.com.au</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#005DAA">I had that setup, but not any more…</span><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#005DAA"> </span><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#005DAA">This is the KISS principle.</span><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#005DAA">Install another xymon server at your DC site and edit all client/etc/xymonclient.cfg</span><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#005DAA">XYMSRV="0.0.0.0" # IP address of the Xymon server</span><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#005DAA">XYMSERVERS="10.0.1.72 10.0.2.72" # IP of multiple Xymon servers. XYMSRV
must be "0.0.0.0".</span><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#005DAA">Voila! a KISS xymon cluster.</span><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#005DAA"> </span><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#005DAA">You can even have just a couple of clients sending just to one of the servers if required,
but it get a bit nasty after a while.</span><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#005DAA">We had 2 pages one with our normal DC and the other showed just the DR.</span><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#005DAA">Of course you still have the main page that shows all.</span><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#005DAA">-</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:7.0pt;color:#005DAA">
</span><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#005DAA">Roland</span><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Xymon [mailto:<a href="mailto:xymon-bounces@xymon.com" target="_blank">xymon-bounces@xymon.com</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Vernon Everett<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, 17 December 2014 3:36 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Xymon mailinglist<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Xymon] Mutiple Xymon Servers</span><span lang="EN-AU"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-AU">Hi all<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-AU">We have Xymon up and running, but want a second server in our other DC.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-AU">How do we set up a 2nd server, and (hopefully) keep them in sync?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-AU">Is there a document on how to set this up anywhere?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-AU">Thanks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-AU">Vernon<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-AU">"Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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