failover feature? 🔗 link

One of the things we really make use of in our current bb setup is the
failover capability, which has been quite useful on more than one occasion.

We have 2 geographically separate data centers which are connected via a fat
pipe, and we do redundant monitoring of each data centers via bb servers from
each data center. The bb servers in data center 1 normally does all the
alerting, but in case the bb servers in data center 2 can't reach the bb
servers in data center 1 (for instance in case of wan outage) the bb servers
in data center 2 fail over and take on all the alerting duties. If and when
the bb servers in data center 1 become reachable again, the bb servers in data
center 1 revert to the normal non-alerting state.

I looked through the hobbit configs but don't see that failover functionality.
Is that something envisioned for a future release, or is there simply a
different approach to that problem in hobbit as compared to bb?

On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 08:41:30PM -0700, J Sloan wrote:

[snip]

In the Hobbit "contrib" directory, you will find a detailed description
of how you can setup a cluster of Hobbit servers for an HA scenario.

I do have some ideas about other ways of handling this, but it is fairly 
low on my priority list since the cluster mechanism works and can be
setup without any changes to Hobbit itself.


Regards,
Henrik

Henrik Stoerner wrote:

This is a nice document, but unfortunately the method described won't work for
us as we have separate data centers and can't have a virtual server straddling
the different networks with a single IP.

Also, we need for both servers to be running all the time, doing the tests,
updating the web pages etc, but only one side is to send notifications. The
notifications are precisely the part that needs to fail over, and the way BB
does it is perfect for making this happen.

Perhaps after graduation this fall I can devote some time to working on that,
so that we could replace the aging bb with hobbit.


Joe