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Re: Primary / Secondary Load Balancer problem

To: lvs-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Primary / Secondary Load Balancer problem
From: Juri Haberland <list-linux.lvs.users@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 14:37:15 +0000 (UTC)
Girish Kamath <girishkm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I have setup a Linux Virtual Server with 2 load balancers and 2 real
> servers. They are working
> perfectly fine. When the Primary Load Balancer fails the Secondary Load
> Balancer takes control
> and starts servicing.
> My problem is when the Primary Load Balancer is back in operation again,
> it stays as a Secondary
> while the original Secondary Load Balancer is servicing requests, as a
> primary.
> What i want is, that when a Primary LB is back in operation, the
> secondary should relinquish the
> floating IP to the Primary and Primary should start serving requests
> again.
> What do i need to do to achive this ? Any pointers would be helpful

Well, you didn't say what kind of HA software you use to do the failover -
so I assume you use Heartbeat :-)

In /etc/ha.d/ha.cf comment out the line:
nice_failback on
or set it to 'off'.

Juri

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