> -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On > Behalf Of Les Mikesell > Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 10:37 AM > To: centos at centos.org > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Clustering apache > > 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. > > -- > Les Mikesell > lesmikesell at gmail.com > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Thank you all for your replies. In researching linux clustering more so I have discovered several other applications out there (primarily pacemaker, openais, and corosync). While I want to use pacemaker as my resource manager I am confused about openais & corosync. Is OpenAIS legacy and corosync the new current iteration? Thanks again for your help!