How do you configure an unmanaged resource in the CIB?  I have been
looking at the Configuration Explained doc.

I am interested in having the Mon utility monitor the server's hardware
using OpenIPMI and alert Heartbeat when failure conditions are detected.

I expected to create a Mon alert script that would execute a cib admin
command to change the value of a score_attribute variable of a
rsc_location rule.

Is there another way to do this with an unmanaged resource?

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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Beekhof
Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 7:34 AM
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Subject: Re: [Linux-HA] Monitoring a non-managed resource

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 12:35, Michael Alger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> The question in brief:
>
> Is it possible to configure heartbeat such that a managed resource (an

> IPaddr) is affected by the status of an unmanaged resource?

yes - this was the original purpose of "unmanaged".
although i think that we don't start monitors for unmanaged resources
(which if true, would be a bug)

>
> In theory I could possibly set up a process outside of heartbeat that 
> periodically checks the status of the service in question, and updates

> an attribute in the CIB. I can then add a constraint which makes it 
> "highly undesirable" for the IPaddr to be placed on a node where the 
> service in question is broken. Is this the best way of going about 
> this?
>
>
> The question in full:
>
> I've got a working squid + IPaddr setup with heartbeat 2.1.3 in a two 
> node cluster.
>
> There are IP addresses bound to the loopback interface on both nodes 
> which squid listens on, and which the firewall forwards connections 
> to. The firewall routes the subnet these addresses live on to the IP 
> address managed by heartbeat, so whichever node has the magic IP is 
> the currently active proxy.
>
> With the current setup, squid is managed by heartbeat, which means it 
> stops it running on the inactive node. This results in a delay of a 
> few seconds if the currently active node changes, as heartbeat first 
> moves the IP address, then stops squid on the old host, and starts it 
> on the new one.
>
> I would like to avoid this delay, as it's not actually necessary for 
> squid to be stopped on the inactive node. However, I do want heartbeat

> to monitor whether squid is running on a node so it can avoid moving 
> the IP address to a node which isn't actually running squid. Squid 
> itself has crash recovery, so it's unlikely heartbeat will be able to 
> get it running again just by running the startup script for it.
>
> I've looked at the "is_managed" attribute, but it appears setting a 
> resource to unmanaged prevents any actions, including monitor, from 
> being performed on it. Actually, it seems to check the status at 
> startup, but never again.
>
> Is there any way of configuring HA so that it will periodically check 
> the status of squid on all nodes (regardless of whether the node is 
> currently holding the IPaddr resource), so that I can use squid's 
> status as an input to resource constraints?
>
> Or, am I completely insane to want to do this in the first place?
> My reasoning is that squid will be running on both nodes at all times,

> unless there's something horribly wrong or the administrator has 
> decided to stop it for some reason. Therefore, it will probably just 
> create confusion if heartbeat takes it upon itself to start and stop 
> squid. In addition, I would prefer to minimise downtime, and since 
> there's no harm in having squid running on an inactive node this seems

> an easy way to shave a few seconds off of the failover delay.
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