Re: [hobbit] Multiple Hobbit server clusters

[Ralph Mitchell <ralphmitchell (at) gmail.com>]

You might want to take a look at the bbproxy man page:
http://192.168.1.50/xymon/help/manpages/man8/bbproxy.8.html

<http://192.168.1.50/xymon/help/manpages/man8/bbproxy.8.html>I haven't used
it myself, but I'm sure others here have.

If you have the option of setting up a private network between the 3 hobbit
servers, you ought to be able to push the bbproxy output over it, thereby
keeping all the hobbit traffic off your main network.  Or I could be all wet
- I have no idea if that would work...  :)

Ralph Mitchell


On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 2:42 PM, James <j.sansford (at) ntlworld.com> wrote:

>  Hello everyone,
>
> We have a bit of a predicament at my work and I am hoping the knowledge of
> this mailing list can help out! I shall explain what we have / need and
> hopefully there shall be a solution :)
>
> We currently have 3 data centres, and would like a hobbit server in each.
> Our design is to have all servers in one data centre communicating with the
> hobbit within that data centre. We would then want the hobbit servers to
> communicate between each other to share the knowledge of the tests so each
> hobbit has a full view of all 3 data centres.
>
> I have currently configured each hobbit to have knowledge of the others by
> changing BBDISP to 0.0.0.0 and BBDISPLAYS to the 3 hobbit server IP's. I
> have then configured all our clients to talk only to the the hobbit within
> the local data centre.
>
> So far I have observed that any server side test replicates fine across all
> hobbits, however it seems for any client side scripts that are run, that
> only the hobbit the client reports to will get the data and wont share it
> with the other two. We don't want to have to configure each client to talk
> to all 3 hobbits as this will increase the network chatter.
>
> Hopefully I've explained that well enough, does this make sense and is
> there a way around it?
>
> Many thanks in advance for your time,
> James.
>