Re: [hobbit] Multiple Hobbit server clusters

[Josh Luthman <josh (at) imaginenetworksllc.com>]

Try
http://xymon.com/hobbit/help/manpages/man8/bbproxy.8.html

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On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 2:28 AM, Ralph Mitchell <ralphmitchell (at) gmail.com>wrote:

> 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.
>>
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