On 7/15/10, Greg Woods <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 2010-07-15 at 07:36 -0700, Pushkar Pradhan wrote: >> Hi, >> I have a strange requirement: I don't want failover to happen unless a >> operator says go ahead or a big timeout has occurred (e.g. 1 hour). I am >> using Heartbeat R1 style cluster with 2 nodes. >> Is this possible or do I need to write some custom plugin? > > This may not be the most elegant solution, but you could do this with > the "meatware" stonith device which does exactly this; someone has to > manually confirm that the other machine is really and truly dead before > a failover will happen. > > This would be easy to set up if you are already using stonith, and a > non-trivial learning curve otherwise.
Sorry for the hijack but I'm also looking for a way to do this and just started looking into Heartbeart. Is it possible to have heartbeat simply send an email alert or run a bash script (which maybe waits half an hour before triggering a failover) instead of immediately failing over? We can just increase the deadtime to 30 minutes, but how can we manually takeover during that time? When the 2 nodes cannot communicate, trying to run hb_takeover on the live node (suppose only the other node lost network connectivity) does not work. pushkar
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