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Xymon swarm proposal

list Matt Vander Werf
Mon, 30 Nov 2015 10:50:14 -0500
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This is probably something that I wouldn't use, as I don't really need it
with my current setup (which is perfectly fine).

I assume that if this functionality was put in place that people who wanted
to keep doing everything local (i.e. on one Xymon server machine) would be
able to continue doing that with minimal necessary changes to the current
setup? In other words, this would be parallel functionality that could be
implemented if desired, but wouldn't necessary affect existing setups that
are all local-based (or at least wouldn't affect them very much).

Is my assumption correct here?

That's my only concern with this, as it seems to be changing *a lot* of
things. This would definitely be the preferred way if this functionally was
implemented, especially for new users of Xymon who don't require this
functionality and for users with smaller setups. Even some changes that
would need to be made would be okay, as long as those necessary changes are
explained.

Thanks.

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Matt Vander Werf

On Sun, Nov 29, 2015 at 8:24 PM, Galen Johnson <user-87f955643e3d@xymon.invalid>
wrote:
It's not clear but I only have unidirection access to most of my monitored
systems so I have to use xymonfetch.  Would this still work where each
datacenter server could be managed/communicate with a local instance that
handles the alerts (for example)?  I'm guessing this is so but just want to
confirm.   Sounds like I'm in a similar situation as Paul...


=G=


*From:* Xymon <xymon-bounces at xymon.com> on behalf of Root, Paul T
<user-76fdb6883669@xymon.invalid>
*Sent:* Saturday, November 28, 2015 4:57 PM
*To:* 'Henrik Størner'; user-834d44be5e50@xymon.invalid; Xymon
mailinglist
*Subject:* Re: [Xymon] Xymon swarm proposal


I’m  pretty much the customer for this. I have 3 xymon servers, 1 primary
and 2 backup/proxy servers. With lots of firewalling between them. And with
those, I have clients that are behind further firewalls.


Like J.C. related, I really want HA. Both proxies can get to all the same
things. The primary is a separate network.


I could adapt to this swarm though. It would work pretty well, I think.


I would definitely want local and global non-green screens. Maybe
something along the lines of the summary links that we currently have.


What about alerts.cfg? Would each machine have its own alerts.cfg, or
could there be one centralized one?


Currently, I have one of the proxies monitor the primary, and if
connectivity (or prog status etc.) is lost, it takes over the full alerts
configuration.


Paul.


*From:* Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] *On Behalf Of *Henrik
Størner
*Sent:* Saturday, November 28, 2015 5:37 AM
*To:* user-834d44be5e50@xymon.invalid; Xymon mailinglist
*Subject:* [Xymon] Xymon swarm proposal


Hi,

the recent talk on xymon-developer about rewriting xymonproxy to support
TLS, IPv6 and other good stuff made me think about other ways of scaling
Xymon across large installations.

Which led me to the idea of having multiple independent Xymon servers - a
swarm, because no one Xymon server depends on the others, but they can
cooperate.


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