[Xymon] Master slave config question

[Tom Diehl]

Hi Henrik,

On Wed, 2 May 2012, henrik at hswn.dk wrote:

> On Tue, 1 May 2012 08:07:59 -0400 (EDT), Tom Diehl <tdiehl at rogueind.com>
> wrote:
>
>> [distribute module]
>> Is there a way to have acknowledgments also sent to the slave?
>
> I wanted it to, but it doesn't do that currently.
>
> The reason is that in order to send an "ack" message you need to pin-code.
> These pin-code are generated indeendently by each Xymon server, so a
> xymond_distribute module on server A doesn't know what the pin-code is for
> an alert on server B. (It could fetch the Xymon board to find out). So
> xymond_distribute cannot generate an ack that will be accepted by the peer
> server.
>
> Poor excuse, I know, and it should be fixed. But now you know why it
> doesn't do that.

Thanks for the response. At least I know to not waste any more time trying
to figure out how to make it work. :-)

Regards,

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