[hobbit] xymon ready to replace bb?

[Husemann, Harald]

Hi,

for the failover part, what about using a real cluster like Linux HA 
cluster with DRBD? I've setup such a system a few weeks ago for us.

hh

Ralph Mitchell schrieb:
> Take a look at the Xymon alert man page:
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> http://www.hswn.dk/hobbit/help/manpages/man5/hobbit-alerts.cfg.5.html
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> You can specify a script to be executed for any given alert.  The ALERT SCRIPTS section in the man page gives details of the environment variables passed in with the the alert information.  So, you could write a script to send snmp traps.
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> I don't know about alert failover.
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> Ralph Mitchell 
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> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 9:07 PM, J Sloan <joe at tmsusa.com> wrote:
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> 	After a bit of a hiatus from bb/hobbit/xymon issues, I'm looking at it again.
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> 	I've grabbed a copy of xymon-4.4.0 svn and set it up on a test server here -  very nice.
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> 	As hope springs eternal, I'm again hoping to replace our aging big brother servers with xymon, since it's the closest thing to a drop-in replacement. Hopefully xymon can be made to do some specific things that bb does, which we depend on here, namely:
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> 	1. snmp traps - this is just a basic requirement to send out an snmp trap on an alert. We have no need to receive snmp traps, only to send them, as big brother does. We depend on that behavior to generate tickets by sending traps to netcool whenever there is a bb alert condition.
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> 	2. alerting failover - we have redundant bb servers are set up, in pairs. each pair of bb servers monitors certain network segments, while only one of the pair is designated as the bbpager, i.e. only one of the pair sends out alerts. But, should the passive bbpager be unable to reach the normally active bbpager, failover kicks in, and the normally passive server begins sending out all alerts. Worst case, we have a split brain condition and get 2 copies of an alert, but in practice, that's only happened a handful of times since 2005.
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> 	Can xymon 4.4.0 do these things, or is there a way to implement this behavior with some appropriate add-ons?
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> 	Joe
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