Hi,

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 08:24:10PM -0400, Patrick LeBoutillier wrote:
> HI,
> 
> >> I'd like to run multiple independant instances of heartbeat on some hosts.
> >> After looking at the source, it seems the path to the config dir is
> >> hardcoded.
> >
> > why do you think you need to do this? it may be that it's not needed with
> > the newer (2.x) versions of heartbeat.
> 
> Here's what I'm trying to do: I have a "farm" of 8 servers. For each
> of my customers there are 2 virtual servers (nodes) dispersed
> throughout the farm. I want to run an instance of heartbeat for each
> customer so that when I add/remove new customers it doesn't impact the
> other ones at the heartbeat level.
> 
> I could run heartbeat inside the virtual servers, but then when
> failover occurs I need to reconfigure the network, something that I
> would rather not allow from inside my virtual servers.
> 
> If I were to modify heartbeat to be able to change the config dir,

It is possible to do that at the build/configure time. See
configure --help.

You'll have to build as many packages as you have customers. I
don't think there's a way around that. AFAIK, nobody tried this
so far, so you may run into issues with duplicate files. Please
report them.

> would I run into problems running more than one heartbeat (assuming I
> use different UDP ports)? Are there some IPC mechanisms used (shared
> memory, ...) that could be messed up by running multiple instances?

I think you should be OK.

Thanks,

Dejan

> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Patrick
> 
> >
> > David Lang
> >
> >> Is there are way to do this?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >>
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