Re: [Spong-users] What, about, the, ipaddress, in, spong.hosts?

[Stephen L J. <sjo...@mo...>]

On Feb 19, "Ramon" wrote:
> Hello!
> My intuition gives me to think that if you put some IP addresses the 
> spong-network will check everyone of them, is that true?

By default yes. Unless you specify noping in the 'services' list for the host.


> What if you have a server with some ip's (i.e public and private) and you 
> want to check just the httpd for the public and the ntp for the private IP, 
> have you got to make a sentence for every IP of the same machine?

Right now, only the check_ping module uses the ip_addr fields. The rest of the 
check modules uses gethostbyname() to get ip addresses. I'm evaulating some 
patches to will allow you to check by IP addresses, but there are still very 
experimentail.


> 
> And last but not the least :) if you use spong in a high avalavility cluster 
> of three nodes and you use each node in the cluster as a spong server for 
> the others -each is server of each other and each one is client of each 
> other- when you try in the browser each server, they do not use an identical 
> database. For example if you acknowledge a problem in red, and then it turns 
> to blue, the other servers don't know that the problem of that resource is 
> known by someone that has make the ack.


Spong-server is not designed to work in a clustered environment. Eash seperate 
spong-server is autonomous (i.e. stand-alone). There is a spong-server data 
module that I have developed that will clone in coming status messages to one 
or more other spong-servers.

You can use the data_sendmsg module on each of the clustered servers to send 
messages to a fourth spong-server. The forth server will give to a 
consolidated view.

I don't have the module in a nicely packaged distribution. But I'll send it to 
you if your are interested.
 
> I hope you'll understand me, I do not use English often!

You are quite understandable. I hope you can understand my English

Stephen L Johnson <sjo...@mo...>