[COLUG] Linux HA - heartbeat

[Travis Sidelinger]

See my posting from this morning.  Also, I've started posting on the linux-ha mail forums.

David Coulson wrote:
> 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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