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Re: [lvs-users] LVS Sync in Ldirectord

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Subject: Re: [lvs-users] LVS Sync in Ldirectord
From: <Darren.Mansell@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:12:40 -0000
>On Thu, 2009-12-17 at 16:37 +0100, Michael Schwartzkopff wrote:
>> Am Donnerstag, 17. Dezember 2009 16:22:08 schrieb 
>> Darren.Mansell@xxxxxxxxxxxx:
>> > I'm using ldirectord to load LVS modules rather than the ipvsadm 
>> > init script. Man ipvsadm says you need to start the ipvsadm sync 
>> > daemon using --start-daemon state and --stop-daemon. As ldirectord 
>> > is doing the loading / unloading of ipvsadm rules then I think the 
>> > ldirectord script itself needs to support ipvsadm daemon sync states?
>> >
>> > Regards
>> > Darren
>> 
>> Could be. But if you use a resource manager like pacemaker to control 
>> ldirectord the sync daemon would be switched off in the passive node. 
>> So no sync here.
>> 
>> controlling the ldirectord in the cluster has the advantage that the 
>> cluster can react if the ldirectord dies.
>> 
>> If you would like to have ldirectord also to control the sync of 
>> ipvsadm you would have to develop a multistate resource agent. Something 
>> like:
>> - Stopped: sync and ldirectord stopped
>> - Started as slave: sync started, ldir stopped
>> - Started as master: sync and ldir started.
>
>
>You can, without any negative result, run both master and backup sync daemon 
>on both hosts. I always have them set to a different sync-id, but perhaps 
>that's not even necessary:
>
>node1 $ ipvsadm --start-daemon master --syncid 50
>node1 $ ipvsadm --start-daemon backup --syncid 51
>
>node2 $ ipvsadm --start-daemon backup --syncid 50
>node2 $ ipvsadm --start-daemon master --syncid 51
>
>Just create a simple init script for it, or put it in rc.local. Maybe you 
>would have to do a modprobe vs or something similar before starting the 
>daemons if you don't have ipvs built into the kernel. 
>
>I realize you could somehow create a fancier way than this, but i don't want 
>to make it more complicated. LVS is hard enough already.
>
>--
>Léon
>

(now indenting in Kate)

Thanks Léon. Turns out this is the easiest way. I've put this into 
/etc/ipvsadm.rules:

node1:
--start-daemon master --syncid 50
--start-daemon backup --syncid 51

node2:
--start-daemon master --syncid 51
--start-daemon backup --syncid 50

And chkconfig'd ipvsadm on. The init script loads before OpenAIS so the daemon 
gets started before OpenAIS loads Pacemaker to load ldirectord to load the LVS 
rules :)

I'll still look into putting it into the Pacemaker resource agent for 
ldirectord so anyone doing load-balancing on Pacemaker clusters will get 
connection state syncing for free.

Regards
Darren
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