[Xymon] two xymon servers - who controls clients?

[David Baldwin]

On 26/09/13 11:22 PM, henrik at hswn.dk wrote:
>
> Den 26.09.2013 15:08, Bakkies Gatvol skrev:
>
>> I am setting up a production xymon monitoring server. I have a
>> development one already running and was having the clients report to
>> both.  I had not thought this setup would be problematic, (being use
>> to old style Big brother) but as I am working on a LOG monitoring
>> setup - it dawned on me that both prod & dev xymon server installs
>> have a client-local.cfg.
>>
>> Is there any kind of priority in the list of servers implied from the
>> client point of view?
>>
>> on any given client I have
>>
>> /etc/default/xymon-client
>>
>> XYMONSERVERS="10.65.1.171 10.65.20.51"
>>
>>
>> If by some dumbness of me I end up with different client-local.cfg
>> files on prod and dev - which one will end up on the client?
>
> When you have two recipients in a client configuration, then the
> server response is returned by the first server in the list. So in
> your case, the client would get the client-local.cfg entry found on
> 10.65.1.171.
>

With BBWin, it seems to be the last listed server that it pays attention
to in central mode.

<bbwin>
    <setting name="bbdisplay" value="1.1.2.2">
    <setting name="bbdisplay" value="1.1.2.3">

Would use 1.1.2.3 copy of client-local.cfg

David.

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David Baldwin - Senior Systems Administrator (Datacentres + Networks)
Information and Communication Technology Services
Australian Sports Commission          http://ausport.gov.au
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