RE: [hobbit] Intelligent alerting across multiple servers?

["T.J. Yang" <tj_yang (at) hotmail.com>]

> Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 21:14:19 -0400
> From: pnixon (at) gmail.com
> To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
> Subject: Re: [hobbit] Intelligent alerting across multiple servers?
> 
> Oh wow, I must have been in space when I thought about that.
> 
> In the standard hobbit-alerts, you are not able to do what I just mentioned.
> 
> However, using an external paging script, you can use the 'bb query
> HOSTNAME.TESTNAME' command, get the status from secondary server2 for
> primary server1 and send the alert to it's destination if server1 is
> down. Otherwise discard the alert.


This is a very creative approach !!

 

Hopefully, Henrik can implement this idea in C source code layer.

Before that happened customized external script in perl or shell script can do the work too.


> 
> Sorry for the bad lead.


np problem, thanks for the pointer.

 

 

tj


> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 12:48 PM, T.J. Yang<tj_yang (at) hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > ----------------------------------------
> >> Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 09:02:45 -0400
> >> From: pnixon (at) gmail.com
> >> To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
> >> Subject: Re: [hobbit] Intelligent alerting across multiple servers?
> >>
> >> Wouldn't it be better on the secondary server(s) to put a conditional
> >> statement in the alert rules that if the primary server is online not
> >> to alert?
> >>
> >> I'm pretty sure the rules can handle that.
> >
> > This is new to me, would you mind to elaborate more on how to do this kind of alert configuration file in hobbit-alerts.cfg ?
> >
> > tj
> >> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 8:32 AM, T.J. Yang wrote:
> >>>> Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:15:14 +0100
> >>>> From: j.sansford (at) ntlworld.com
> >>>> To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
> >>>> Subject: [hobbit] Intelligent alerting across multiple servers?
> >>>>
> >>>> Hello everyone,
> >>>>
> >>>> We have 3 Xymon servers communicating together and I have noticed they are
> >>>> clever enough to communicate enable/disables across the board. For example
> >>>> if I was to disable a check on the gui from one xymon server it will
> >>>> communicate this with the other 2 and blue them out automatically.
> >>>
> >>> I have a two servers setting for redunancy.
> >>> This is a new feature to me as a hobbit 4.2.0 user, which version are you
> >>> using ?
> >>>
> >>> for blue(maintenance mode) records cloning from one server to the other, we
> >>> need to dump the blue records on primary and rsync the blue records to
> >>> secondary and finally reimport blue records into secondary.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> I was wondering if there is something similar for the alerts? We have 3
> >>>> xymons for redundancy however as far as I can tell if I set up the alerts
> >>>> config on all 3 then we are going to get 3x identical alerts. Is there any
> >>>> way they can talk to each other and only send out one?
> >>>
> >>> To avoid alert duplication from secondary servers with hobbit 4.2.0 ,  we
> >>> need to write a perl script to check primary from secondary. if primary has
> >>> outage of network connection or hobbit server is down then we enable alert
> >>> module of secondary hobbbit server. at any given time only one hobbit server
> >>> is allowed to send out alerts.
> >>>
> >>> So are you configuring all your hobbit clients to send message to all three
> >>> servers ?
> >>> This not a concern for a LAN setting but it may become a problem if the
> >>> deployment is at the scale of thousands of clients and sending message
> >>> across WAN the has smaller wan pipe.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> tj
> >>>
> >>>> Many thanks
> >>>> James
> >>>>
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