[COLUG] Linux HA - heartbeat

[David Coulson]

I run heartbeat fairly extensively - It's really not the most ideal tool 
for HTTP application failover. As someone else suggested, LVS may be a 
better option, although depending how your app works, you may still need 
to make changes on it to handle the session switching from one server to 
another (assuming you care about that).

Maybe you can elaborate on your problems, or describe your applications 
a little better? All heartbeat really does is detect if the primary 
system is down, then run a bunch of scripts to start/stop services on 
the backup - If you had to kill stuff, then it may be the scripts 
causing the problem, rather than heartbeat?

Travis Sidelinger wrote:
> Anyone out there using heartbeat?
>
> I'm working on a project to move web applications under heartbeat.  
> Thou I have a basic 1.x configuration setup and working, I've run into 
> a number of issues. Lets say "kill -9" has been used often.  Things 
> I've seen so far scare me for a solution that is suppose to be provide 
> high availability.  Maybe I've been trying all the wrong things, but I 
> am not impressed by this project so far.
>
> Thus, I wondered if anyone else was running heartbeat?  Anyone using a 
> 2.x configuration?  Have anyone used the gui management tool with any 
> success?
>
> -Travis
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