[Pdns-users] Using AXFR vs. Mysql Replication

[Max Clark]

Lukas,

I would be very interested in hearing more about your nagios
configuration to monitor mysql and mysql replication. Anything you can
provide would be a great help.

Thanks,
Max

On 6/23/06, Lukas Beeler <lb-pdns-users at projectdream.org> wrote:
> * Max Clark <max.clark at gmail.com>:
> > issues with Mysql replication (and once because mysql went down
> > causing the nameservers to go down, which caused name resolution for
> > client access to fail when we tried to bring the nameservers back up -
> > really stupid problem).
>
> MySQL has had a few issues with replication (i've got
> an open bug report with the MySQL people), and we've started to
> monitor replication much more closely, and also started
> seperating MySQL Instances for various services.
>
> Are you using Nagios or a similar tool? MySQL replication can
> break silently if you don't monitor it, which can cause major
> headaches.
>
> If you don't want to rollout nagios or something similar, i'd
> recommend you to use nagios check scripts, and run them in a
> cronjob with a small wrapper around them which sends SMS.
>
> Personally, all the problems we had with MySQL happened because
> we don't use a testbed environment for all changes.
>
> If you need any help with nagios, let me know, i'd be happy to
> share my configuration and scripts (don't have time to publish
> them all properly).
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