heartbeat + ldirectord (for LVS)

Peter Mueller pmueller@sidestep.com
Fri, 15 Mar 2002 16:43:46 -0800


> > how does one add a VIP/ip to heartbeat via haresources and 
> have it take
> > effect without killing the current setup? killlall -HUP 
> heartbeat or my
> > init.d/heartbeat reload don't seem to do the trick.
> 
> 
> I just sent out an email explaining that heartbeat can't do this.
> 
> But, if you want, you can manually cause it to happen, and 
> heartbeat will 
> maintain it on both sides afterwards.
> 
> 1) Update haresources on both machines
> 2) run /etc/ha.d/resource.d/IPaddr your-addr-here start on 
> the side you want 
> to own the address...

spiffy! I want heartbeat to be able to recover manually if something untold
happens, your indicates that heartbeat will act properly?  For example, if
heartbeat process dies for some reason, the failover machine will acquire
all addresses?

gracias