[hobbit] Fail over?

[Stewart L]

Will the old BB client report to two servers? Or do I need to upgrade
to the hobbit client?

On 10/23/07, Henrik Stoerner <henrik at hswn.dk> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 02:18:16PM -0400, Stewart L wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I run two completely separate systems in parallel, and have the clients
> report to both of them. The system at our disaster center has the paging
> module disabled (just disable the [bbpage] section in hobbitlaunch.cfg),
> to avoid double alerts - it is simple to activate it, if necessary.
>
> Config files are rsync'ed from the primary site to the disaster site
> regularly.
>
>
> Regards,
> Henrik
>
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