On 2006-01-19T11:41:11, James Pan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> A friend of mine are using heartbeat with apache in her lab. She has
> ever tried
> heartbeat 2.0.2 because of the resource monitor facility. But finally
> she gave up and
> switched back to heartbeat 1.2.
Well, 2.0.2 is pretty old. CVS is very much different from that:
741 files changed, 69764 insertions(+), 25884 deletions(-)
But actual user feedback is always helpful.
> Here are some complaints from her.
> 1. No ipfail for heartbeat 2.0
Well, this one is known.
> 2. She installed apache from source code. So the httpd script was
> installed into another directory
> rather than /etc/init.d/. heartbeat failed to start httpd in this
> case and the logs did not indicate the problem.
> It took her a lot of time to figure out the problem.
The LRM error messages have been improved since too.
> 2. In order to test failover, she started up heartbeat and deleted the
> httpd script
> from Node A. She expected apache will be started on another node.
> But heartbeat kept trying
> to start apache on Node A.
Well, again, handling of RAs not being found etc has been greatly
improved since. But, this could also have been a configuration mistake,
it's hard to say.
Second, removing the RA is not a way to test the failover! This will
lead, even with CVS HEAD, to unexpected behaviour.
For example, if our last status was that a service was running on some
node, and then the script is removed, monitor will fail - we'll try to
stop it but can't, because the script isn't there - we'll invoke the
"stop failure" recovery process and STONITH/fence node A!
I'd recommend that she should kill the apache processes instead.
Sincerely,
Lars Marowsky-Brée
--
High Availability & Clustering
SUSE Labs, Research and Development
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