[hobbit] Fail over?

[Stewart L]

yes, it is.

I've spoke with our infrastructure and support team and they will be
re-configuring the client on all of their machines to point to both
servers.  We already have the DR server up and running, I just need to
script the daily copy of the config files.

Thanks for all the input, folks!

Stewart

On 10/24/07, T.J. Yang <tj_yang at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Isn't a proxy is another SPF (Single point of failure) ?
>
> T.J. Yang
>
> ________________________________
> Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:23:20 -0400
> From: paulehr at gmail.com
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: Re: [hobbit] Fail over?
>
> That sounds like an interesting idea to use squid to load balance between the two servers. I need to do something similar in our lab and been trying to figure out the best way to do it.
>
> On 10/24/07, Josh Luthman <josh at imaginenetworksllc.com> wrote:
> I believe you could use something like a proxy (Squid maybe?) for clients to connect to and then use one or the other.  I'm not familiar at all with squid itself so I may be completely off, but a load balancer does sound like an option.
>
>
> On 10/24/07, T.J. Yang < tj_yang at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> > Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 22:02:34 +0200
> > From: henrik at hswn.dk
> > To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> > Subject: Re: [hobbit] Fail over?
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 02:18:16PM -0400, Stewart L wrote:
> >> So, how are others doing this? I have a server set up here in my
> >> primary data center. We're monitoring a few thousand hosts right now
> >> with a large number of custom externals.
> >>
> >> I've been tasked with setting up a fail-over or disaster response
> >> server in case our primary data center has issues. All of our clients
> >> are currently configured to send their messages to the IP address of
> >> our primary server.
> >>
> >> Now, I could just copy the bb-hosts file to the DR site, but then I
> >> would only get the network tests since the clients all report to the
> >> primary.
> >
> > I run two completely separate systems in parallel, and have the clients
> > report to both of them. The system at our disaster center has the paging
> > module disabled (just disable the [bbpage] section in hobbitlaunch.cfg),
> > to avoid double alerts - it is simple to activate it, if necessary.
>
>
> I was thinking of using Sun Cluster(hb on Solaris) or HeartBeat(hb on Linux) but
> then how can I configure the Cluster solution to failover from one site(Florida) to another(NewYork) ?
>
>
> I believe this setup is the most simple failover solution at the only expense of extra
> network bandwidth usgage to the secondary hb server.
>
> tj
>
> > Config files are rsync'ed from the primary site to the disaster site
> > regularly.
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Henrik
> >
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