On 2/17/2010 10:27 AM, Dan Burkland wrote:
> I’m a greenhorn when it comes to clustering in RHEL/CentOS and recently
> setup an active/standby clustering using Apache & Heartbeat. It seems to
> be a good entry step into clustering however after testing it I was
> disappointed in that the resource manager does not start httpd on node2
> if httpd on node1 is dead (only starts httpd on node2 if the heartbeat
> daemon on node1 is dead). Is there anyway to achieve this setup if not
> with Heartbeat with some sort of other HA solution?
You can write your own service test(s) that would trigger failover (or
just restart the failed service...). Just do a 'service heartbeat stop'
if you want the primary to hand off to the backup quickly.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com