On Sun, 2008-11-30 at 20:47 +0000, Todd, Conor (PDX) wrote:

> How about an rsync resource that runs on the passive node which synchronizes 
> the user-facing passwd file with the backup on the passive?  The failure 
> action of the rsync resource could be to rename the backup to the live copy 
> on the passive.  This assumes that failure of rsync is equivalent to failure 
> of the active node.  It also assumes that you don't want your active node to 
> know very much about your passive node, just in case the active is 
> compromised.
> 
>   - Conor


Thanks Conor, yes that sounds like exactly what I need. Could you please
give me some rough pointers to go about this? Not the fine grained
detail but pointers to the next level of detail in Heartbeat required to
implement this?

For rsync I would probably set-up an ssh tunnel so making the active
know something about the passive is gonna be unavoidable I guess. I have
set-up master-master MySQL replication between them so all the essential
app data is pretty much known to both. I was thinking of eventually
moving the Basic Auth user/password data into MySQL somehow, this would
be the ideal solution as the data is being replicated. Anyone done that
and if so what software was used?

Cheers!
Imran


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