We do have the same setup in my company. Here I am running a cluster agent and 2 "node" agents. The cluster agent then checks only the cluster services and reports with the cluster name. Is also located on a clsuter filesystem so that it is handles by HACMP to stop/start with the ressource group.
in the bb-hosts file if you add conn=worst,1.2.3.4,2.3.4.5 both ips will be pinged and alerts will go red if any of the ips are unavailable.
Kauffman, Tom wrote:
I need to split the monitoring for SAP and Oracle from the monitoring of the host it runs on -- because, in an IBM HACMP environment, the workload can move. So the oracle tests, *some* of the disk space tests, and *some* of the proc tests move from one box to another.
So does the primary IP address.
I need to be able to track 'colorado' the box (the hostname does NOT move) as well as 'colorado' the IP address. 'Colorado' the address could actually be pointing to the 'thames' or 'yukon' boxes. At which time, 'colorado' the box will be responding to the 'colorado-bt' adapter address (if 'colorado' the box is up at all).
I can get some of what I want by running two clients, one for 'colorado' the box, and one for 'SAP' or some other such synthetic name. The biggest two challenges I see are splitting the OS filesystems from the application filesystems for freespace reporting, and the shifting IP address. I may have an 'out' on the IP address in the future, if I can migrate to what IBM calls 'aliasing' -- where they add the running address as a second address on the adapter and respond to both.
And to make this a bit more fun, I have THREE of these silly environments to work with.
Henrik, is there any way to hang two different IP addresses on the same bb-host entry such that the network connectivity test will be happy if either one responds? They are always on the same IP network, just different host addresses (our convention is to add 100 to the last octet to get the boot-time address for the matching run-time address).
Is anyone else doing something silly like this?
TIA
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