Another possibility is that where I am using Hobbit, we have multiple users acknowledging alerts. In order to facilitate this we have set up SSL and a login to the admin pages so that the alerts are acknowledged by username. I have modified the code in order to send an email of the alerts to the acknowledging user. This allows us to send particular acknowledged alarms to our helpdesk for logging and routing to the right IT group.
If Hobbit does not already handle acknowledgements between servers, then it should be relatively easy to modify the code so that it sends the ack to any other hobbit servers .
I suppose I should submit a patch of what I currently have that sends emails to the acknowledging user?
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I am not 100% sure on all of this. Some one with a little more knowledge may be able to further expand on this.
In my testing, I have acked alerts and could not find any record ofthe mack message in any file on the hobbit server. From this I have assumed that this stays memory resident, being dumped to the memory checkpint file every so often.
If you disable an alert, the same thing goes, but an entry does appear in ./data/histlogs/...
So the way I am going to approach this (not yet implemented but planned):
copy the checkpoint file across between the two servers and leave it there just in case it is needed.... synchronise the bb-hosts and hobbit-alerts files from primary to secondary servers. hobbly the sending out of messages on the secondary server (this is done by using a script for all message types. The script determines if it should act on the alerts or not based on a setting of who is primary/secondary...
In the event that primary is down, secondary is started, loading the primaries checkpoint file. Alerting is then enabled.
Cheers
Phil
2008/5/28 <david.peters at dpi.nsw.gov.au>:
Maybe I could explain the problem a little clearer. If I have two hobbit servers that both recieve updates from clients, I want to be able to receive on Server B acknowledgements created on server A.
david.peters at dpi.nsw.gov.au 27/05/2008 02:16 PM
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Hi,
I have two hobbit servers that each recieve updates from all our client machines. This is working fine with two entries in the client configuration file. What I am struggling with however, is how do I get acknowledgements submitted on one server to also show up on the other server. (Is this possible with the current code?)
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