All, I'm curious if anyone has developed best practices for maintaining and synchronizing multiple IM servers? We have two servers in physically redundant data centers that we use to monitor all the same network devices. It provides redundancy in network monitoring and gives 2 perspectives when troubleshooting.
The challenge is that we don't want to have to manually update each. I have tried 2 approaches: 1) shut down the server, rsync the maps and charts, and restart the server; and 2) command line import export using the scripting tool. 1) seems to work the best, but it seems we have many times were the server doesn't start properly. I would estimate a 50% success rate with it. It also seems to cause a re-probe, which brings back a bunch of hidden interfaces. 2) I can sync devices fairly well, but it doesn't appear to sync all state of maps, such as locations and hidden interfaces. Importing the vertices table also appears to cause the IM server to hang. Any thoughts on other strategies? Tony ____________________________________________________________________ List archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/intermapper-talk%40list.dartware.com/ To unsubscribe: send email to: [email protected]
