[hobbit] Fail over?

[Rolf Schrittenlocher]

Hi,
you might use a virtual IP for hobbit server which could be assigned to 
another machine if necessary. In case both servers use a common raid, 
data could be stored on the raid so even history would be there. This is 
what we do.

Rolf
> So, how are others doing this?  I have a server set up here in my
> primary data center.  We're monitoring a few thousand hosts right now
> with a large number of custom externals.
>
> I've been tasked with setting up a fail-over or disaster response
> server in case our primary data center has issues.  All of our clients
> are currently configured to send their messages to the IP address of
> our primary server.
>
> Now, I could just copy the bb-hosts file to the DR site, but then I
> would only get the network tests since the clients all report to the
> primary.
>
> Would I use bbproxy to do this?  But if I install bbproxy on the
> primary, I won't be proxying the messages if my primary goes down...
> :(
>
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