[hobbit] xymon ready to replace bb?

[Josh Luthman]

I would send it here.  This is pushed to people and stored by Henrik
who couldn't be more tied to Xymon. Great begining and will last
forever :)

On 3/28/09, Martin Flemming <martin.flemming at desy.de> wrote:
>
> Hi, Harald !
>
> .. good question ... but it should not be a religious question .. :-)
>
> .. but i think, in both ways, you need a registration for the
> rights to append your notes ...
>
> So obvisously, it should the best way for all Xymon's to have one
> and only  Wiki/Howto Side ...
>
> For Xymonton would be Galen the right person ....
>
>> Or shall I send it directly to the list
>
>   hmm, maybe the quickest solution ...
>
>
> thanks & cheers,
>
>  	martin
>
> On Fri, 27 Mar 2009, Husemann, Harald wrote:
>
>> Hi Martin,
>>
>> I can of course write a doc about our setup to share my experiences. As I
>> saw, there was a bit of a discussion about the right place for it, so,
>> question to the list:
>> Where shall I upload it? Or shall I send it directly to the list, and
>> someone
>> (TJ?) picks it + includes it?
>>
>> hh
>>
>> Martin Flemming schrieb:
>>>  Hi, Harald !
>>>
>>> >  Xymon with Linux HA cluster with DRBD
>>>
>>>  did you make some doku's or notes for it ?
>>>
>>>  .. there is an old thread from Februar but unfortunatley no notes till
>>>  this moment ...
>>>
>>>  http://www.hswn.dk/hobbiton/2009/02/msg00146.html
>>>
>>>  But there is already some place for it :-)
>>>
>>>
>>> http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/System_Monitoring_with_Xymon/Administration_Guide#Hobbit_in_HA
>>>
>>>  HA-LAN using LinuxHA and DRBD
>>>
>>>  [edit]
>>>
>>>
>>>  If you have some notes, please contact T.J. Yang <tj_yang at hotmail.com>
>>>  to submit it to the wiki
>>>
>>>
>>>  cheers,
>>>
>>>          Martin
>>>
>>>
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>>>  On Thu, 26 Mar 2009, Husemann, Harald wrote:
>>>
>>> >  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:
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > > http://www.hswn.dk/hobbit/help/manpages/man5/hobbit-alerts.cfg.5.html
>>> > >
>>> > >   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.
>>> > >
>>> > >   I don't know about alert failover.
>>> > >
>>> > >   Ralph Mitchell
>>> > >
>>> > >   On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 9:07 PM, J Sloan <joe at tmsusa.com> wrote:
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > >    After a bit of a hiatus from bb/hobbit/xymon issues, I'm looking
>>> > > at
>>> > >    it
>>> > >    again.
>>> > >
>>> > >    I've grabbed a copy of xymon-4.4.0 svn and set it up on a test
>>> > >    server
>>> > >    here -  very nice.
>>> > >
>>> > >    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:
>>> > >
>>> > >    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.
>>> > >
>>> > >    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.
>>> > >
>>> > >    Can xymon 4.4.0 do these things, or is there a way to implement
>>> > > this
>>> > >    behavior with some appropriate add-ons?
>>> > >
>>> > >    Joe
>>> > >
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