On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 10:12 +0200, Diego de Felice wrote: > > 1) After a failover to the secondary master, what should we do with the > > primary? What if the primary comes back online? The simplest solution is > > provided by that article pointed out by Gary: prevent the failed node to > > re-acquire the virtual IP. > > I'm facing the same problem in these days. I'm using Heartbeat and > the problem is that when the failed node comes back Heartbeat doesn't > start it automatically as slave. I'll try to put a script that starts > OpenLDAP automatically as slave at boot time and see what happens. > Then the master will update automatically (thanks to slurpd) this new > slave... at last I hope so :-) >
Diego, What you could is to add a check in your slapd init script: if the server holds the heartbeat service address starts slapd as master, otherwise starts slapd as slave. -- Samuel Tran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Systems Administration - Information Technology American Museum of Natural History (P) 212-313-7231
