Re: [hobbit] Fail over?

["Paul Ehrenreich" <paulehr (at) gmail.com>]

That sounds like an interesting idea to use squid to load balance between
the two servers. I need to do something similar in our lab and been trying
to figure out the best way to do it.

On 10/24/07, Josh Luthman <josh (at) imaginenetworksllc.com> wrote:
>
> I believe you could use something like a proxy (Squid maybe?) for clients
> to connect to and then use one or the other.  I'm not familiar at all with
> squid itself so I may be completely off, but a load balancer does sound like
> an option.
>
> On 10/24/07, T.J. Yang <tj_yang (at) hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > > Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 22:02:34 +0200
> > > From: henrik (at) hswn.dk
> > > To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
> > > Subject: Re: [hobbit] Fail over?
> > >
> > > On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 02:18:16PM -0400, Stewart L wrote:
> > > > So, how are others doing this? I have a server set up here in my
> > > > primary data center. We're monitoring a few thousand hosts right now
> > > > with a large number of custom externals.
> > > >
> > > > I've been tasked with setting up a fail-over or disaster response
> > > > server in case our primary data center has issues. All of our
> > clients
> > > > are currently configured to send their messages to the IP address of
> > > > our primary server.
> > > >
> > > > Now, I could just copy the bb-hosts file to the DR site, but then I
> > > > would only get the network tests since the clients all report to the
> > > > primary.
> > >
> > > I run two completely separate systems in parallel, and have the
> > clients
> > > report to both of them. The system at our disaster center has the
> > paging
> > > module disabled (just disable the [bbpage] section in hobbitlaunch.cfg
> > ),
> > > to avoid double alerts - it is simple to activate it, if necessary.
> >
> >
> > I was thinking of using Sun Cluster(hb on Solaris) or HeartBeat(hb on
> > Linux) but
> > then how can I configure the Cluster solution to failover from one
> > site(Florida) to another(NewYork) ?
> >
> >
> > I believe this setup is the most simple failover solution at the only
> > expense of extra
> > network bandwidth usgage to the secondary hb server.
> >
> > tj
> >
> > > Config files are rsync'ed from the primary site to the disaster site
> > > regularly.
> > >
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Henrik
> > >
> > >
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