[hobbit] big brother replacement

[Joe Sloan]

On 20071102, Henrik Stoerner wrote:
>
> The alert failover is different, because Hobbit doesn't have a separate
> BBPAGER server - alerts are sent from the same host that handles the
> Hobbit data collection and webpages. A solution to this has been
> implemented for the next release, where the alerting module can be
> distributed onto multiple servers, but only one of them will send alerts
> at any given time.
>   

Could you elaborate on this alerting module configuration, or point me 
to TFM? If it has indeed been implemented, it sounds like it would be 
the key to enabling hobbit to emulate the big brother style alerting 
failover behavior.

Joe