Re: fake or heartbeat

["Thomas O'Dowd" <tom@example.com>]

Just found http://failover.othello.ch/ Has anyone any experience with
using this? It seems like it might do what I want.

Tom.

On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 08:26:41PM +0900, Thomas O'Dowd wrote:
> I'm looking for a nice opensource s/w solution to running two solaris
> web servers as either a virtual server (ie some sort of cluster) or
> one in failover mode (ie takes over when other one stops responding).
> I don't want to involve a third box infront of them unless it is a cheap
> appliance (ie no more than 300,000 yen or so). Introducing a third box
> to manage this anyway is another single point of failure, right? This site
> won't see much traffic so the idea is just to have more uptime than a
> single machine could give me.
> 
> Linux seems to have nice tools for doing this with fake and heartbeat.
> What are the options for solaris? Currently heartbeat doesn't support
> solaris and fake I believe never did. Correct me if I'm wrong here.
> 
> The aim is to have either box to go down and for the site to continue, perhaps
> with a small delay on the initial failover.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Tom.
> -- 
> Thomas O'Dowd. - Nooping - http://nooper.com
> tom@example.com - Testing - http://nooper.co.jp/labs
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Next Nomikai Meeting:    Fri, June 15 19:30-  Tengu Tokyo Eki-Mae
> Next Technical Meeting:  Sat, July 14 13:30- 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> more info: http://www.tlug.gr.jp           Sponsor: Global Online Japan
> 

-- 
Thomas O'Dowd. - Nooping - http://nooper.com
tom@example.com - Testing - http://nooper.co.jp/labs