Overcome this by checking if BBDISPLAY server is down, then editing client config file, bouncing hobbit service.
No delays/responsiveness issues.
Much the same as hobbit invokes an email or SNPP event that notifies user if up or down, one could notify clients that a BBDISPLAY is down/up and act accordingly.
Best,
PKrash
-----Original Message----- From: Christoph Berg [mailto:cb at df7cb.de] Sent: Mon 5/19/2008 5:44 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] dr for hobbit
Re: Phil Wild 2008-05-19 <258e9b160805182339r6090664ax64681ff20a68821d at mail.gmail.com> [...]
clients will be configured to send metrics to both servers. which will keep historical rrd data up to date etc.
Hi,
just a note on that one, we are running a setup like that too, plus a third host for alerting. The problem we have is that if one of the hosts in BBDISPLAYS is down, clients will have trouble sending in data to any server, because of timeouts. Sometimes notifications lag for as much as half an hour.
I'm not saying your setup won't work, but you should keep in mind that you might effectively degrade availability/responsiveness because of the use of multiple servers.
Christoph
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