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HP's MC/ServiceGuard cluster software monitors NFS using the "rpcinfo"
command -- it can be quite sensitive to network congestion, but it is
probably the best tool for monitoring this kind of service.
The problem with listing an NFS exported directory is that when the
service bombs, ls will wait for quite a while -- you don't want the
director hanging because of an NFS query that's gone awry. =)
Malcolm.
P.S. I've now established a modest service for XDM login access via the
cluster (currently LVS w/ NAT, using HP-UX real-servers). Thanks for all
your help. Works well -- all I need now are some startup scripts, the
real-server monitoring and director fail-over! It's a small list.
Joseph Mack wrote:
Horms wrote:
On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 01:06:49AM -0000, Don Hinshaw wrote:
Would a simple TCP_CONNECT be the right way to test NFS?
If you are running NFS over TCP/IP then perhaps, but in my experience NFS
deployments typically use NFS over UDP/IP. I'm suspecting a better test
would be to issue some rpc calls to the NFS server and look at the
response, if any. Something equivalent to what showmount can do might not
be a bad start.
how about exporting the directory to the director as well and doing an `ls`
every so often
Joe
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