El 08/07/2010 10:00, Oliver Eales escribió:
Am 08.07.2010 09:31, schrieb Xavier Pons:
El 07/07/2010 13:35, Timo Sirainen escribió:
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this limitation does not allow use the same two directors servers
like mail backend servers?
You can install two Dovecot instances on the same server (set
different base_dir for them), one as director and another as mail
server. A bit annoying to have two of them, but it should work.
I suppouse, this require to have different IPs address for every
instance?
the fairlure of one director server it's automatically detected or
require manual intervention?
It's automatically detected. I've only simulated it with software,
but you could also try it by actually pulling the network plug out. :)
If I have different dovecot instances on same host, one like proxy
and another like mail backend, the director service will detect both
failures of
director service like of backend servers? or only detect the first one?
You will have to build some kind of HA environment in front of the
proxys. If you just use DNS round-robin for connects to the proxy
server (the instance) client connection attempts to this particular
server will fail. The director service is only for user-stickyness
(and HA) between the 1st and the 2nd tier. Most common use would be in
a NFS storage backend.
Yes, we will have two hardware balancers in front of proxies. Thus, the
director service will detect failures of backend servers and not forward
sessions them? how detects if a backend server it's alive or not?
The command 'doveadm director status', gives information about status of
backend mailservers or of director servers?
Sorry for so many questions ...
Thanks
Xavier
