[hobbit] stand-by hobbit

[Henrik Stoerner]

On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 08:44:52AM +0200, pkc_mls wrote:
> ye-fee liang a écrit :
> >First, many thanks for creating and maintaning Hobbit, a first-class 
> >product !!!
> >Got a question about running a stand-by (or secondary) hobbit server,
> >let say, I'm not ready/prepare to run a linux cluster, and would like a
> >backup server, just in case the primary server, serverA, is down
> >(due to failure or maintenance).
> >
> why don't you set up two hobbits servers (with perhaps an rsync script 
> to synchronize automatically the conf) ?
> 
> you'll have two hobbit servers running in the same time (which can lead 
> to duplicate alerts, but it's sometimes better to
> be alerted two times).

That's what I'm doing currently. Getting rid of alerts is simple, just
disable the hobbitd_alert module on one of the servers. Should that
server fail, you can quickly enable it on the backup server.


Regards,
Henrik