On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 02:18:16PM -0400, Stewart L wrote:
So, how are others doing this? I have a server set up here in my primary data center. We're monitoring a few thousand hosts right now with a large number of custom externals.
I've been tasked with setting up a fail-over or disaster response server in case our primary data center has issues. All of our clients are currently configured to send their messages to the IP address of our primary server.
Now, I could just copy the bb-hosts file to the DR site, but then I would only get the network tests since the clients all report to the primary.
I run two completely separate systems in parallel, and have the clients report to both of them. The system at our disaster center has the paging module disabled (just disable the [bbpage] section in hobbitlaunch.cfg), to avoid double alerts - it is simple to activate it, if necessary.
Config files are rsync'ed from the primary site to the disaster site regularly.
Regards, Henrik