Or just run Advance Server and Cluster them.. Like I do.. :) Tv
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Anthony Franklin Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 1:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [WhatsUp Forum] Clustering WhatsUp Servers Please read this in its entirety: High Availability Plan I have considered creating a fail over solution for the What's Up Gold boxes. Since I have more than one WUG server, monitoring different devices, though, I have them performing a page content check on each other. In my experience of using WUG, I have found if the WUG web page is viewable, then WUG is working. Since Ipswich has given us the web templates, it seems very easy to create a fail over between two servers. Here is the plan: The first step for any failed service is to attempt to restart it: However, if you have a very huge device base being monitored, my recommendation, by conjecture, is to allow the working What's Up Gold box to remotely reboot the failed box after so many missed polls or an event. If the reboot of the other box does not bring the failed server up, the clock is still ticking on the working server and you have been notified by now. Since the clock is still ticking, there could be another alert that runs a script that loads all of the maps that were running on the failed device into working device if it is not up after a certain period of time. The script I am about to develop is a small VB app that will call a custom What's Up Gold asp page that uses java script to control the submission of an array of map names to be loaded via the Web templates automatically. The maps from each server would already be stored on both servers. You could create a directory named "fail over", or create a directory named "success" if you don't like to use the "fail" word. Using example server names of "WUG_A" and "WUG_B, I would say copy all of the Maps from "WUG_A" server to "WUG_B's "success" directory and vice versa. Have the auto asp page to load all the maps in the "success" directory on the working server. A good tool to use to perform remote restarts of other servers is a free tool from "SysInternals" called Pstools. I used this instead of using the resource kit method. I used that tool when I was running WUG version 6. To keep your VB programming down, I recommend you create your maps and device names without spaces. URL encoding in VB takes a little work, unless you can find a function already written somewhere. Once I get the code running I will share it, however, it I do not know when I will get around to completing. If someone else gets started and finishes let me know. Anthony Franklin, Network Engineer University of West Florida Information Technology Services 11000 University Parkway Pensacola, Florida 32514 (850) 474-3243 The happiest people don't necessarily have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything! -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Cameron, Rodney J. Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 3:57 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Cc: Vandenbergh, Mike; Brent, Kevin Subject: [WhatsUp Forum] Clustering WhatsUp Servers Importance: High We will be relaying on WhatsUp very heavily on monitoring our network. Has anyone done any cluster or High availability. We are running Windows 2000 ADV Server. Thank you for your help Rodney J. Cameron Automation Specialist, Automated Operations 7130 GoodLett Farms Pkwy Cordova, TN 38016 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/whatsup_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/whatsup_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/whatsup_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
