The heartbeat package is deprecated in favour of corosync + pacemaker. There is no planned future development of heartbeat. I'd recommend reading the Clusters From Scratch tutorials available on the pacemaker website.
On 11/30/2012 02:08 PM, Rodrigo Abrantes Antunes wrote: > Hi, I'm new to heartbeat, just started to read about it a week ago. I'm > using ubuntu, I installed heartbeat 2.1.4 in my two nodes. Here is ha.cf of > them: > > logfacility local0 > keepalive 2 > deadtime 5 > udpport 694 > bcast eth5 > auto_failback on > node node1 > node node2 > > And here is haresources (I'm testing only apache, the ip address don't > matter): > node1 apache2 > > I stoped heartbeat service in node1 and then apache started in node2 , > then I started heartbeat service in node1 and apache started in node1 but > stayed active in node2. Shouldn't the one in node2 be stopped? Another > question: If I stop apache service in one node it don't start in the other > node, shouldn't it be started since apache is down? How heartbeat monitors > the process to see if it is down or up? And another question: I'm used with > VMware HA for High Availability between VMS, it saves a copy of the vm and > start it in case of the main one goes down, the vm's data are syncronized > between each other. My objective when I started to read about heartbeat was > to achieve this same goal but with physical machines, but with some > research I realised that heartbeat don't do this alone, I need another > software to syncronize data between the nodes. What I want to ask is wich > one is the best to syncronize ALL data between the 2 nodes including data > that may be in use, data related to hardware (my two nodes have the same > hardware), in a way that one node is the mirror of the other just like in > vmware HA. Or maybe heartbeat isn't the right solution for this goal? I've > heard about LVS for ha and load balancing and Linux HPC and I was thinking > about some hardware stuff too. One more question: I've read somewhere that > you can have a "heartbeat server" used to manage the multiple pairs of > nodes, is this right? Is there a gui for this like a web interface? > > Thanks. > _______________________________________________ > Linux-HA mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha > See also: http://linux-ha.org/ReportingProblems > -- Digimer Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.ca/w/ What if the cure for cancer is trapped in the mind of a person without access to education? _______________________________________________ Linux-HA mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha See also: http://linux-ha.org/ReportingProblems
