Re: [Astlinux-users] Astlinux hot standby

2018-07-27 Thread Michael Knill
Wow thanks Lonnie. High Availability for Astlinux is fantastic news. Im very much looking forward to testing it out. Regards Michael Knill On 28/7/18, 5:02 am, "Lonnie Abelbeck" wrote: Michael, a follow-up, Michael Keuter (per his suggestion) and I have been working on adding kee

Re: [Astlinux-users] Astlinux hot standby

2018-07-27 Thread Lonnie Abelbeck
Michael, a follow-up, Michael Keuter (per his suggestion) and I have been working on adding keepalived http://www.keepalived.org/ to AstLinux. Basically we have it all working, quite well actually, though we have not yet tested enough to make keepalived part of standard builds. keepalived adds

Re: [Astlinux-users] Astlinux hot standby

2018-07-22 Thread Michael Keuter
> Am 22.07.2018 um 09:35 schrieb Michael Knill > : > > Thanks Lonnie > > Yes I agree totally. But there is also another factor which is restoration > time and a broken Astlinux box have a much longer restoration time than all > the others. Yes, that's a valid point. It seems it is much depen

Re: [Astlinux-users] Astlinux hot standby

2018-07-22 Thread Michael Knill
Thanks Lonnie Yes I agree totally. But there is also another factor which is restoration time and a broken Astlinux box have a much longer restoration time than all the others. I have actually had a couple of storage issues and a lightning strike so it certainly happens and I don't know the lon

Re: [Astlinux-users] Astlinux hot standby

2018-07-22 Thread Michael Knill
Thanks Michael. In my testing the phones reregistered quite quickly actually e.g. a couple of seconds. The arping would have sorted out the ARP table on the phone. I actually don't want auto failover at this time. Lots of testing required as it could actually break a working system e.g. duplica

Re: [Astlinux-users] Astlinux hot standby

2018-07-21 Thread Lonnie Abelbeck
Hi Michael, I don't have any experience to comment on your hot standby solution, but just some birds-eye-view thoughts ... 1) Make sure your High Availability solution doesn't create more problems than it solves. 2) Solve possible availability issues in order of likelihood. For example, consi

Re: [Astlinux-users] Astlinux hot standby

2018-07-21 Thread Michael Keuter
> Am 21.07.2018 um 03:11 schrieb Michael Knill > : > > Hi Group > > I have won a reasonable size customer (90 extensions) and Im currently > testing Astlinux hot standby. > This is what I am planning to do: > • The Astlinux HS is in parallel to the primary Astlinux server with > differ

[Astlinux-users] Astlinux hot standby

2018-07-20 Thread Michael Knill
Hi Group I have won a reasonable size customer (90 extensions) and Im currently testing Astlinux hot standby. This is what I am planning to do: 1. The Astlinux HS is in parallel to the primary Astlinux server with different IP Addresses on the internal and external interface but same subnet.