[Linux-HA] Re: Writing thirdparty program to manage heartbeat

[Andrew Beekhof]

On 5/24/07, Max Hofer <max.hofer at apus.co.at> wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 May 2007, Tao Yu wrote:
> > Is it a practical way to call cibadmin/crm_resource/etc.. from the other
> > program?
> >
> > On 5/23/07, Tao Yu <taoyu2007 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I am trying to write some thirdparty programs to manage heartbeat. Which
> > > direction should I go? Tried with mgmtd interface by sending messages using
> > > mgmtd client libraries, but seems there are some bugs.
> > >
> > > Please give me some advices.
> All the tools i wrote (third party program for customer requests) are simple
> shell scripts which use crmadmin, crm_* tools.
>
> If you can life with shell scripts i suggest you use the crm_* tools/cibadmin.
>
> Imagine there are changes in the libraries ---> you have to keep track of that
> all the time.
>
> With the tools you just have to check if the command line parameters
> did not change and you are done ...

which i try not to make a habit of :(