[hobbit] Intelligent alerting across multiple servers?

[T.J. Yang]

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> 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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