[hobbit] Dual Hobbit servers and acknowledgements. + ack email patch

[david.peters at dpi.nsw.gov.au]

Another possibility is that where I am using Hobbit, we have multiple 
users acknowledging alerts. In order to facilitate this we have set up SSL 
and a login to the admin pages so that the alerts are acknowledged by 
username. I have modified the code in order to send an email of the alerts 
to the acknowledging user. This allows us to send particular acknowledged 
alarms to our helpdesk for logging and routing to the right IT group. 

If Hobbit does not already handle acknowledgements between servers, then 
it should be relatively easy to modify the code so that it sends the ack 
to any other hobbit servers .

I suppose I should submit a patch of what I currently have that sends 
emails to the acknowledging user?





"Phil Wild" <philwild at gmail.com> 
28/05/2008 01:16 PM
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I am not 100% sure on all of this. Some one with a little more knowledge 
may be able to further expand on this.
 
In my testing, I have acked alerts and could not find any record ofthe 
mack message in any file on the hobbit server. From this I have assumed 
that this stays memory resident, being dumped to the memory checkpint file 
every so often.
 
If you disable an alert, the same thing goes, but an entry does appear in 
./data/histlogs/...
 
So the way I am going to approach this (not yet implemented but planned):
 
copy the checkpoint file across between the two servers and leave it there 
just in case it is needed....
synchronise the bb-hosts and hobbit-alerts files from primary to secondary 
servers.
hobbly the sending out of messages on the secondary server (this is done 
by using a script for all message types. The script determines if it 
should act on the alerts or not based on a setting of who is 
primary/secondary...
 
In the event that primary is down, secondary is started, loading the 
primaries checkpoint file. Alerting is then enabled.
 
Cheers
 
Phil

2008/5/28 <david.peters at dpi.nsw.gov.au>:

Maybe I could explain the problem a little clearer. If I have two hobbit 
servers that both recieve updates from clients, I want to be able to 
receive on Server B acknowledgements created on server A. 



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27/05/2008 02:16 PM 

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Hi, 

I have two hobbit servers that each recieve updates from all our client 
machines. This is working fine with two entries in the client 
configuration file. What I am struggling with however, is how do I get 
acknowledgements submitted on one server to also show up on the other 
server. (Is this possible with the current code?) 




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