why don't you set up two hobbits servers (with perhaps an rsync script to synchronize automatically the conf) ?
you'll have two hobbit servers running in the same time (which can lead to duplicate alerts, but it's sometimes better to be alerted two times).
That's what I'm doing currently. Getting rid of alerts is simple, just disable the hobbitd_alert module on one of the servers. Should that server fail, you can quickly enable it on the backup server.
Regards, Henrik
Just to clarify:
- rsync is run every 5 minutes [your opinion on frequency and other method].
- the stand-by is running hobbitd normally(?), so only update data, and server/www directories? (what about server/etc)
- how to disable the hobbitd_alert module
Thank you, Ye-Fee
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On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 12:35:06PM -0400, ye-fee liang wrote:
That's what I'm doing currently. Getting rid of alerts is simple, just disable the hobbitd_alert module on one of the servers. Should that server fail, you can quickly enable it on the backup server.
Just to clarify:
- rsync is run every 5 minutes [your opinion on frequency and other method].
- the stand-by is running hobbitd normally(?), so only update data, and server/www directories? (what about server/etc)
The only thing that is rsync'ed between the two servers is the configuration data, i.e. the files in ~hobbit/server/etc/ . Unless you're changing your configuration frequently, once an hour seems like it should be adequate.
All of the other data is maintained separately by each server. They are running the same Hobbit modules, both of them receive data from clients, run the network tests, generate the webpages and so on - which takes care of maintaining all of the other data.
- how to disable the hobbitd_alert module
Edit hobbitlaunch.cfg and put a DISABLE in the [bbpage] section.
Henrik
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