[hobbit] failover feature?

[J Sloan]

Henrik Stoerner wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 08:41:30PM -0700, J Sloan wrote:
>> One of the things we really make use of in our current bb setup is the
>> failover capability, which has been quite useful on more than one occasion.
> [snip]
>> I looked through the hobbit configs but don't see that failover functionality.
>> Is that something envisioned for a future release, or is there simply a
>> different approach to that problem in hobbit as compared to bb?
> 
> In the Hobbit "contrib" directory, you will find a detailed description
> of how you can setup a cluster of Hobbit servers for an HA scenario.

This is a nice document, but unfortunately the method described won't work for
us as we have separate data centers and can't have a virtual server straddling
the different networks with a single IP.

Also, we need for both servers to be running all the time, doing the tests,
updating the web pages etc, but only one side is to send notifications. The
notifications are precisely the part that needs to fail over, and the way BB
does it is perfect for making this happen.

Perhaps after graduation this fall I can devote some time to working on that,
so that we could replace the aging bb with hobbit.


Joe