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

[Tobias Oetiker]

Jay,

this functionality did not work quite corectly at first, make sure
you use the latest version

cheers
tobi

Today Jay Canfield wrote:

> Interesting.
>
> We shut down the master for 10 mins. The 2 slaves have not updated the gaps in their graphs yet.
>
> I know the version in the deb repos is not up to date, so maybe the newer version will help.
>
> Thanks
>
> Jay Canfield
> Jay.canfield at channelblade.com
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Kristolaitis [mailto:alter3d at alter3d.ca]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 4:26 PM
> To: Jay Canfield
> Cc: smokeping-users at lists.oetiker.ch
> Subject: Re: [smokeping-users] Question about master/slave and master outage
>
> http://oss.oetiker.ch/smokeping/doc/smokeping_master_slave.en.html
>
> "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."
>
>
>
>
> Jay Canfield wrote:
> > New to the list, hi all.
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> >
> >
> > Jay Canfield
> >
> > Jay.canfield at channelblade.com
> >
> >
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