[smokeping-users] Question about master/slave and master outage

[Tobias Oetiker]

Today Chris Krough wrote:

> http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/doc/smokeping_master_slave.en.html
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> "The slave tries to contact the master server after every round of
> probing, supplying its results. If the master server can not be
> reached, the results will be sent to the server together with the next
> round of results. Results will be stored in a perl storable so that
> they survive a restart of the smokeping instance."
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> I wonder if there is a limit to how long it will store the results..

there is no artificial limit to this ...(diskspace would be one
real limit).




cheers
tobi

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> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 2:57 PM, Jay Canfield
> <jay.canfield at channelblade.com> wrote:
> > New to the list, hi all.
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> > We have a master at our HQ, and a slave in each datacenter (2 other
> > locations). Everything is working great as far as pulling in the info from
> > the slaves. Just got it set up today.
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> > My question is: If the master fails, or the interconnects between the master
> > and slaves fail, is there any way to get smokeping  to backfill the missing
> > data? Or is it a ?we report it as we get it? kind of model? If we can?t
> > backfill, we?ll just use 3 masters, but I was curious if there is a way to
> > maintain data consistency if the master is down or the cxn to our hq is
> > down.
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> > Thanks!
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> > Jay Canfield
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> > Jay.canfield at channelblade.com
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