[hobbit] Intelligent alerting across multiple servers?

[Patrick Nixon]

Wouldn't it be better on the secondary server(s) to put a conditional
statement in the alert rules that if the primary server is online not
to alert?

I'm pretty sure the rules can handle that.

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 8:32 AM, T.J. Yang<tj_yang at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:15:14 +0100
>> From: j.sansford at ntlworld.com
>> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
>> Subject: [hobbit] Intelligent alerting across multiple servers?
>>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> We have 3 Xymon servers communicating together and I have noticed they are
>> clever enough to communicate enable/disables across the board. For example
>> if I was to disable a check on the gui from one xymon server it will
>> communicate this with the other 2 and blue them out automatically.
>
> I have a two servers setting for redunancy.
> This is a new feature to me as a hobbit 4.2.0 user, which version are you
> using ?
>
> for blue(maintenance mode) records cloning from one server to the other, we
> need to dump the blue records on primary and rsync the blue records to
> secondary and finally reimport blue records into secondary.
>
>
>> I was wondering if there is something similar for the alerts? We have 3
>> xymons for redundancy however as far as I can tell if I set up the alerts
>> config on all 3 then we are going to get 3x identical alerts. Is there any
>> way they can talk to each other and only send out one?
>
> To avoid alert duplication from secondary servers with hobbit 4.2.0 ,  we
> need to write a perl script to check primary from secondary. if primary has
> outage of network connection or hobbit server is down then we enable alert
> module of secondary hobbbit server. at any given time only one hobbit server
> is allowed to send out alerts.
>
> So are you configuring all your hobbit clients to send message to all three
> servers ?
> This not a concern for a LAN setting but it may become a problem if the
> deployment is at the scale of thousands of clients and sending message
> across WAN the has smaller wan pipe.
>
>
> tj
>
>> Many thanks
>> James
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