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Re: [hobbit] xymon ready to replace bb?



On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 09:50 +0200, Buchan Milne wrote:
> On Friday 27 March 2009 00:25:53 Stef Coene wrote:
> 
> > For the failover, configure both servers to report to each other it's
> > situation.  Configure both servers to trigger a script when there is an
> > alert.  Except one of them is the master and is always sending out the
> > alert. The other (the slave one) first checks the status of the other
> > server (a simpel wget of the status page can be enough) and only sends out
> > the alert if this page is not green.
> 
> I would rather:
> 
> bb $MASTERDISPLAY 'query $MASTERDISPLAY.bbd'|grep -q ^green || 
> enable_hobbitd_alert
> 
> (where implementation of enable_hobbitd_alert is left as an exercise for the 
> reader)

I was thinking the depends=($MASTERDISPLAY/bbd) syntax, but on further
inspection, I don't think that will cut it.


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