On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 12:45:57PM -0600, James Wade wrote:
I want to run Two Hobbit Servers for redundancy purposes. Can someone give me some pointers. What's the best way to set this up, and which files do I change?
There isn't a 100% automatic setup that handles fail-over of the various tasks, especially paging.
The best solution right now is to run the two servers in parallel; i.e. setup a synchronization of the bb-hosts, hobbit-alerts.cfg and hobbit-clients.cfg files and run the same tasks on both of the servers. On the backup server, you would disable the [bbpage] task in hobbitlaunch.cfg so you dont get duplicated alerts; in case the primary server fails, you must then enable this task to get alerts going.
This obviously isn't very smart. Some improvements are underway for Hobbit 4.3 so fail-over of paging is handled better; it's not yet ready for production use, though.
Regards, Henrik