Re: [hobbit] Multiple Hobbit server clusters

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

Oops...  :)
Ralph


On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 1:34 AM, Josh Luthman <josh (at) imaginenetworksllc.com>wrote:

> 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:
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>> 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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