I hope this hasn't been a hoax. But I remember clearly having seen this on the official SPETRUM roadmap presented by Kathy Hickey at a user meeting in Cologne. Mysteriuosly enough, I don't think it is too difficult to implement such a key feature - alarms are stored in the SSdb; it shouldn't be too hard to periodically sync a part of this database to a hot-standby instance (that is really running and not waiting for the primary to get lost and THEN start the local database!). We are also looking forward to having this, since a real redundancy is not just gapless monitoring from my point of view. Especially having a Netcool-like system on top, we've been experiencing very strange behaviours in cases of SS failovers, from total alarm loss to double alarms being shown on the non-SPECTRUM-console.
As far as OneClick is concerned, docs talk about a load balancer based FT environment - which is no option for us ;-) I've built two identical servers that sync their customized xml files as well as PCause and Event-Files at night, so that each user can connect to the so-called "backup machine" when our primary OC server is in maintenance with the benefit of having to customize only one machine, not two. One might also think of a round robin DNS RR that points to two physical machines alternatingly. What I don't know is whether OC's Tomcat can deal with the machine's hostname and the hostname provided in the URL being different. What confused me though was that you wrote you have the same alarms on the secondary SS in case of a switchover. Did you mean you have identical alarms on primary and secondary SS, i.e. also in terms of date and time etc.? 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Mehr Tipps und Antworten zum Thema Energieeffizienz unter http://www.mainova-energiecoach.de Sturla Moller <[email protected]> 05.02.2010 13:25 Bitte antworten an Sturla Moller <[email protected]> An "spectrum" <[email protected]> Kopie spectrum <[email protected]> Thema Re: [spectrum] Antwort: Re: [spectrum] Landscape problems when using Fault Tolerance(FT) on spectrum v9.1 Amazing that this is not implemented already! I'm also surprised that there is no solution for FT standalone OneClick server. Sturla On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Christian Fieres <[email protected]> wrote: Alarm Sync is not yet implemented. All servers hold and generate their own alarms, resulting in an Ack, Status and Troubleshooter loss when FT failover occurs, not to mention unrealistic alarm creation date and time. Either implement a tool on top that handles that (some event correlation solution like Netcool etc.) or wait for 9.2 that is said to be scheduled around May or June this year. I've been told that an FT alarm sync feature will be implemented in this version. Something we've been waiting for since the 1990's! Freundliche Grüße / Best regards Christian Fieres Mainova AG Planung und Betrieb Infrastruktur (M3-ON2) Service Operation Center Solmsstraße 38 60623 Frankfurt Telefon / Phone (069) 2 13-2 36 17 Mobil / Mobile (0170) 5 60 15 63 Telefax / Facsimile (069) 2 13-9 62 36 17 E-Mail [email protected] Mainova Aktiengesellschaft • Solmsstraße 38 • D-60623 Frankfurt am Main Vorsitzende des Aufsichtsrates: Oberbürgermeisterin Dr. h. c. Petra Roth • Vorstand: Dr. Constantin H. Alsheimer (Vorsitzender), Lothar Herbst, Dr. Marie-Luise Wolff, Joachim Zientek Sitz der Aktiengesellschaft: Frankfurt am Main • Amtsgericht Frankfurt HRB 7173 • USt-ID-Nr. DE 114184034 Müssen Sie diese E-Mail wirklich ausdrucken? - fragt der Mainova Energiecoach. Mehr Tipps und Antworten zum Thema Energieeffizienz unter http://www.mainova-energiecoach.de Sturla Moller <[email protected]> 05.02.2010 10:07 Bitte antworten an Sturla Moller <[email protected]> An "spectrum" <[email protected]> Kopie spectrum <[email protected]> Thema Re: [spectrum] Landscape problems when using Fault Tolerance(FT) on spectrum v9.1 Vynita, Are you running H09? I'm experiencing the same problems and I'm running 9.1 H09. Have you tried to adjust the SpectroServer polling interval in the OneClick Administration page? Besides the problem mentioned I also have another issue related to FT. When failing over from primary SS I still have the same alarms on the secondary SS, but the alarms lose their Trouble Ticket Id, and acknowledge information. Anyone else experiencing this? Regards Sturla On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Pretorius, Vynita <[email protected]> wrote: HI All Awhile back there was a conversation going on about a corba app dying and the FT system never takes over. My issue is that my landscape does not respond, then the global alarms do not respond after which it tries the FT system. It then proceed to swop back and forth between the FT and primary servers. At this time oneclick is unavailable you cannot logon as it says that there is no spectroserver available. What causes the landscape to not respond? And how do I resolve this. When in this state I reboot both spectrum server. 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