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Multiple Cononsoles for Hobbit Alerts

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list Dave Morgan · Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:01:04 -0500 ·
We want to set up a master/slave hobbit server relationship, using
BBRELAY, or something equivalent.  Currently, we have all our alerts
hitting one server, and we want those results to populate that server,
and also push to a slave server.

The central server where we are collecting all our status messages
aren't just from a single host, but also from other Hobbit/BB servers.
 Essentially, we want to have a second console for the whole ball of
wax, which would be on a separate (re: DMZ) subnet, with only read
access to it.

Can this be done?

Dave

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list Adam Goryachev · Fri, 14 Nov 2008 01:16:20 +1100 ·
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quoted from Dave Morgan

Dave Morgan wrote:
We want to set up a master/slave hobbit server relationship, using
BBRELAY, or something equivalent.  Currently, we have all our alerts
hitting one server, and we want those results to populate that server,
and also push to a slave server.

The central server where we are collecting all our status messages
aren't just from a single host, but also from other Hobbit/BB servers.
 Essentially, we want to have a second console for the whole ball of
wax, which would be on a separate (re: DMZ) subnet, with only read
access to it.
Yes, basically change your existing hobbit server to only listen on
127.0.0.1, then configure bbproxy to pass everything it receives on the
external IP to 127.0.0.1 as well as your second/new hobbit server.

Read up on bbproxy for more details...

Regards,
Adam

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list Paul Root · Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:53:23 -0600 ·
Do you mean you want two servers running, and one as a backup? 

I have that. I have a couple of scripts. The secondary machine watches
everything, but doesn't send alarms. But when it sees that the primary
isn't responding, it runs a script to take over. 

When the primary comes back, it runs a script that tells the secondary
to stand down.

Actually, we have a third server in a disaster recovery site. It has to
watch for both going down. 


Paul Root         IM/MNS Infrastructure    
quoted from Dave Morgan
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From: Dave Morgan [mailto:user-4691629dd582@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 8:01 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: [hobbit] Multiple Cononsoles for Hobbit Alerts

We want to set up a master/slave hobbit server relationship, using
BBRELAY, or something equivalent.  Currently, we have all our alerts
hitting one server, and we want those results to populate that server,
and also push to a slave server.

The central server where we are collecting all our status messages
aren't just from a single host, but also from other Hobbit/BB servers.
 Essentially, we want to have a second console for the whole ball of
wax, which would be on a separate (re: DMZ) subnet, with only read
access to it.

Can this be done?

Dave

-- 
David S. Morgan CISSP, CCNP
aka: user-4691629dd582@xymon.invalid

"When the Winds of Change Blow Hard Enough,
the Most trivial of things can turn into deadly projectiles"


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