On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 07:43:25PM +0800, Unai Rodriguez wrote: > How about writing a bash script that checks LDAP status somehow and have > this script managed by xinetd? > > The script should return "HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n" if the LDAP server is > fine or something else if not (e.g. "HTTP/1.1 503 Service Unavailable\r\n"). > > Xinetd could be configured in such a way that the script is invoked upon > connecting to a defined port, let's say 9200. > > Then, we could have on the HAProxy configuration something like this: > > listen LDAP IP:389 > mode tcp > option httpchk > server ldap_srv1 ip:389 check port 9200 inter 5000 rise 3 fall 3 > > What would you think of that approach?
it is the usual way of performing complex checks. An alternative method consists in referencing the LDAP script itself in inetd. Willy
