On 2/3/2012 12:51 PM, Gregg Smith wrote: > On 2/3/2012 9:35 AM, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: >> On 1/3/2012 2:22 AM, Gregg L. Smith wrote: >>> Since I have been the most vocal about this watchdog/hearmonitor/heartbeats >>> on windows ... >>> I should chime in. >>> I can tell someone what each do (as far as I have seen). There are, minimal >>> docvs on all >>> but watchdog (which is required for a couple) ... but ... look at my emails >>> in the past >>> ... am hardly the one to write docs :) >> More to the point, what do they interact with? >> >> What convention or protocol are they implemented with? >> >> Let's start with the basics; what do they add to this MB's large tarball >> to benefit Joe User? >> > a way of monitoring a cluster of servers and opening another way of balancing > the load > (lb_meathod_byheartbeat). > > This is what I see when I look at the bundle.
With what external mechanisms that exist today? Over what protocol? In use today by mod_proxy_balancer? I'll review the docs myself next week when I come up for air, but what I don't want to do is ship something a typical user can't directly take advantage of without third party modules.
