[CentOS] ldirectord package on centos 6

Wed May 16 17:45:51 UTC 2012
Dennis Jacobfeuerborn <dennisml at conversis.de>

On 05/16/2012 04:13 PM, Peter Hinse wrote:
> Am Wed, 16 May 2012 15:06:15 +0200 schrieb Dennis Jacobfeuerborn:
> 
>> On 05/16/2012 08:52 AM, Peter Hinse wrote:
>>> Am Tue, 15 May 2012 21:11:00 +0200 schrieb Dennis Jacobfeuerborn:
>>>
>>>> I'm looking for the ldirectord package but can't find it. Previously
>>>> this was available as "heartbeat-ldirectord" and nowadays it is built
>>>> as an independent package from "resource-agents" however neither seems
>>>> to be available either in core centos 6 or epel. Where did it go?
>>>
>>> Look at the resource-agents SPEC file, the ldirectord is not built
>>> anymore. Some tweaking in the SPEC will give you the package back.
>>> However, upstream (RH) has decided to not support ldirectord any more.
>>
>> Ok, so how does upstream provide load balancing features then? The only
>> alternative I know is keepalived and that doesn't really play well in a
>> cluster environment.
> 
> See http://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/pdf/
> Load_Balancer_Administration/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux-6-
> Load_Balancer_Administration-en-US.pdf

After some digging I finally found the components in the piranha package.
That stuff looks pretty scary though (as in "not really meant for
production systems") so I'll probaby look into creating a standalong
ldirectord rpm.

Regards,
  Dennis