[Linux-HA] Newbie's resources not flying

[Alan Robertson]

J. B. Schatz wrote:
> Helmut Wollmersdorfer wrote:
> 
>>
>> Does your service-IP 201.225.35.18 exist, is created by HA?
> 
> 
> No, it is not created by HA. Also, it does not exist before I run HA:
> there is no IP on eth0, the IFACE I want to use for the service address.
> Only IFACEs eth1 and eth2 are active during my tests.
> 
>>
>> And it should look in the logs like this:
>> heartbeat: 2005/03/12_01:26:18 info: standby: acquire [foreign] 
>> resources from via2
> 
> 
>> You should do the configuration step by step.
>> - set up DRBD manually, independant from heartbeat (you always did)
>> - set up samba on top of DRBD, keep it starting from init.d directly
>> - set up only the IP as haresource, test it
>> - then add drbd as haresource
>> - then test your /etc/ha.d/resource.d/samba script _manually_
>> - then add samba as resource
>>
> Thanks very much. I have run the suggested test with only the IP as a
> resource for heartbeat. Here is the haresources file for both nodes:
> 
> ns1 IPaddr::201.225.35.18/28/eth0
> 
> No IP resource is created and indeed ifconfig does not show eth0 at all.
> Absent in the log file is any line resembling "Acquiring resource
> group..." as in the example above.


IPaddr will NOT bring up an interface from scratch.  It will only add 
aliases to an existing, configured interface.


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