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On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 10:59:16AM -0400, ian wrote:
> > Additionally, as I see it, there seem to be 3 ways to go right
> > now (not in any
> > order of preference):
> >
> > 1. Use Pirahna
> > 2. Use UltraMonkey
> > 3. Cobble the pieces together yourself
> >
> > I'd like to be able to fully understand what's needed for option
> > 3. It is
> > forseeable that there would be people who want to do things the
> > hard way, and
> > I'd like to be able to fully document this option.
>
> Cobbled setups:
> 1. Mon, Heartbeat, ipvsadm
> (to install mon, you have to find and install several other
> files: fping, Convert-BER, Period, Time-HiRes, Mon, mon)
> The last two are not the same. one is the daemon, the other
> is a collection of clients to connect to the daemon.
> Also note that to compile mon on a linux box you have to
> comment out line 222. Mention that in you howto, it will
> probably save someone a lot of time.
>
> 2. ldirectord, heartbeat, ipvsadm
<gratuitous plug>
This is what Ultra Monkey uses.
</gratuitous plug>
> Heartbeat has Fake incorporated in it, so if you have Heartbeat,
> you don't need fake.
Heartbeat incoporates the funcionality and some of the code from fake.
Not fake itself.
> mon is very flexible, and easy to customize. In addition to watching
> the RealServers, you can use mon to verify that the nic's are working on
> the director, and ping the public ip address of the cluster, and even
> alert you if the web pages are too slow.
>
> ldirectord is a bash script used to monitor the RealServers.
ldirectord is written in perl.
Sorry to be pedantic, just thought I would set things straight.
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Horms
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