I have two Hobbit servers with the intent of using one as a failover server. Each is set up to monitor the same hosts. They differ in how the Hobbit servers themselves are defined. Within the primary server I have "# BBDISPLAY BBPAGER BBNET bbd http://primary-server" for the primary server and nothing additional for the failover. Within the failover server I have "# BBDISPLAY BBPAGER BBNET bbd http://failover-server" for the failover server and nothing additional for the primary. (Yes, I did simplify the names for purpose of illustration.) Both servers sit outside of a firewall and monitor servers on each side of the firewall.

When either server is up and the other down everything is fine. Or, if both servers are up and I modify their bb-hosts file so that they don't know of each other, everything is fine as well. However, when both servers are up and one knows of the other it's a different story. The "conn" column for the monitored servers that reside behind the firewall goes red, even though I can still successfully ping those servers. These fluctuate between red and green about every minute.

I'm at a loss as to what to do. A couple of months ago it was mentioned that a detailed walk-through of how to setup two Hobbit servers existed (Brian Lynch?). Is this document available for downloading or does anyone have any thoughts as to how to solve this? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you.

Peter Murray Computing & Media Services Syracuse University Syracuse NY 13244 <pbmurray at syr.edu>