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Re: heartbeat between LVS machines

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Subject: Re: heartbeat between LVS machines
From: Christian Bronk <chris@xxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2001 23:07:57 +0200
Joseph Mack wrote:
> 
> Alex Kramarov wrote:
> > it's
> > impossible ot monitor the service running on the vip from the same machine
> > (or so it seems from the docs),
> 
> from the director, a mon monitor can't check a service on the VIP
> of a realserver. What is done currently for the configure script
> is to have the service listen on the RIP as well and you monitor
> the service on the RIP. You hope that the functionality of the
> service on the VIP and the RIP track each other. This isn't a
> good solution but works for the moment.
> 
> Better would be to remotely run the monitor on the realserver and have it
> check the VIP. I haven't written this into the configure script yet.
> 
> > has anyone seen a case where lvs
> > fails (and I am not talking about the real servers, but about the load
> > balancer module) but the machine lives on, and if such a case exist, does
> > anyone has a solution for monitoring and taking action when such failure
> > occures ?
> 
> no one has described, on this list, an actual director failure in an HA'ed
> production system. Most people seem to check out the HA functionality by
> hitting switches or pulling cables and then put it on line. What happens
> after that I don't know. I've quizzed a small and statistically invalid
> sample of people personally about this and it would seem that the HA
> features are used for keeping managers assured that the machines are
> redundant and for keeping the LVS up during planned maintenance.
> 
> Anyone got any director failure stories in HA'ed LVSs?

Yes, 
we had once an Servercrash, because the net-module from perl on RH6.0
has
a memory leak. --> the ldirectord started to grow and after a few weeks
the server half crashed.
The kernel was still running and LVS was working, but ldirectod and all
other (ssh...) was down.
The second was then used when we replaced the old one.

Chris

> 
> Joe
> 
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> contractor to the National Environmental Supercomputer Center,
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