On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Michael Schwartzkopff <[email protected]>wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 4. Mai 2010 20:19:02 schrieb Cameron Smith: > > On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 10:17 AM, David Lang > > > > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > On Tue, 4 May 2010, Cameron Smith wrote: > > > > I am currently using Heartbeat to manage http, mysql and a DRBD > device > > > > between two nodes. > > > > > > > > I want to also manage Postfix with Heartbeat. > > > > > > > > What things should I keep in mind in the configuration of Postfix so > > > > that mail services are tied to the IP managed by Heartbeat rather > then > > > > the > > > > > > IP's > > > > > > > of each node? Are there any unique things regarding HA and an MTA I > > > > > > should > > > > > > > be aware of when setting this up? > > > > > > My first question is why you need to tie Postfix to the VIP instead of > > > just letting it listen on IPANY (which would let it receive mail at > both > > > the real IP > > > addresses and the VIPs). > > > > > > I have several dozen clusters with postfix on them, and it works just > > > fine without needing to know anything about heartbeat. > > > > > > David Lang > > > > Well how do you manage mail accounts for users in addition to mail from > the > > server itself? Where are the files for those mail accounts living? On one > > of the cluster nodes and not on the other (non DRBD device)? What happens > > to mail for those people when the node goes down? > > Oh, you are taking about a MTA WITH mail boxes and a daemon like cyrus > doing > pop3 or imap? > > That's, of course, a different story. You need shared storage like DRBD for > this setup. And a floating IP address. > > -- > Dr. Michael Schwartzkopff > Yeah! Since I already have that in place for http and mysql I just wanted to know if there was anything unique I need to do for postfix config for when it is running on primary (managed by heartbeat) and how do I handle the sending of system emails on the secondary since postfix will be down there? _______________________________________________ Linux-HA mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha See also: http://linux-ha.org/ReportingProblems
