[hobbit] stand-by hobbit

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ye-fee liang a écrit :
> First, many thanks for creating and maintaning Hobbit, a first-class 
> product !!!
> Got a question about running a stand-by (or secondary) hobbit server,
> let say, I'm not ready/prepare to run a linux cluster, and would like a
> backup server, just in case the primary server, serverA, is down
> (due to failure or maintenance).
>
why don't you set up two hobbits servers (with perhaps an rsync script 
to synchronize automatically the conf) ?

you'll have two hobbit servers running in the same time (which can lead 
to duplicate alerts, but it's sometimes better to
be alerted two times).
> So, I could just change serverB ip addr and name and reboot to become
> the parimary.
>
> hobbit-clients  
> BBDISPLAY="1.2.3.4"
>
> hobbit-serverA   (1.2.3.4)
> BBSERVERIP="1.2.3.4"
> BBPROXY="5.6.7.8"
>  
> hobbit-serverB   (5.6.7.8)
> BBSERVERIP="5.6.7.8"
>
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