This will be your only alert in alerts.cfg on the slave server

HOST=primary COLOR=red SERVICE=bbd,conn DURATION>2 SCRIPT /usr/local/scripts/xymSecondaryTakeOver $NG-ONCALL MAIL $NG-ADMIN

Take over:

echo "date '+%a %D %T' :: $BBHOSTNAME . $BBSVCNAME" >/var/log/messages MESSAGE="Xymon: $BBHOSTNAME's $BBSVCNAME service is $BBCOLORLEVEL. Secondary taking over" export USER=xymon export HOST=$HOSTNAME if [ "$RCPT" = "" ]; then export RCPT=$1 fi echo "mailing: $RCPT \"$MESSAGE\"" >> /var/log/messages echo $MESSAGE | /bin/mail $RCPT XETC="/etc/xymon"

cp ${XETC}/alerts.cfg.primary ${XETC}/alerts.cfg

Release:

echo "date '+%a %D %T' :: $BBHOSTNAME . $BBSVCNAME" >/var/log/messages MESSAGE="Xymon: $BBHOSTNAME's $BBSVCNAME service is $BBCOLORLEVEL. Secondary turning down" export USER=xymon if [ "$RCPT" = "" ]; then export RCPT=$1 fi echo "mailing: $RCPT \"$MESSAGE\"" >> /var/log/messages echo $MESSAGE | /bin/mail $RCPT XETC="/etc/xymon"

cp ${XETC}/alerts.cfg.secondary ${XETC}/alerts.cfg

I guess I should update that to not use BBHOSTNAME, etc.

Then I have a cron job that copies (rdists) the pertinent files from the primary to the secondary. I also have logic in the scripts that make sure they are only run on the proper system.

Paul Root - Senior Engineer Managed Services Systems - CenturyLink

From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Kevin Kelly Sent: Friday, June 01, 2012 10:27 AM To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: [Xymon] Master/slave server configuration.

I am trying to setup a Xymon master/slave configuration.

Is it possible to set them up so that we only get alerts from the master, unless that is down, and then get them from the slave server? And if so, could you provide a document and an example of the configuration.

Both servers are Xymon 4.3.7, running on RHEL 6.2

Thanks

Kevin

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