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Re: [lvs-users] SCTP support on real server monitoring tools

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Subject: Re: [lvs-users] SCTP support on real server monitoring tools
Cc: krishna prasad <krishna.sirigiri@xxxxxxxxx>
From: David Coulson <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2012 07:57:19 -0500
We don't use SCTP specifically, but I utilize ldirectord with external 
check scripts to monitor weird proprietary applications (most of which 
use UDP). I have also used mon for the same purpose, although we have 
since deimpleted that in favor of ldirectord.

David

On 3/2/12 7:12 AM, krishna prasad wrote:
> Hi,
>     I was exploring options available to monitor real servers in LVS cluster.
> Our requirement is  that the real severs can be on TCP or SCTP; and they
> don't run the web servers like HTTP or FTP or any regular services. They
> listen on any configured port; basically service is proprietary application
> on tcp or sctp.
> With this back ground, I realized that recent LVS has SCTP support and I am
> happy on this;and came across 3 real server monitoring tools 1) Ldirectord
> 2)Keepalived 3) mon.
>
> These are my questions
> 1) Does any of the above 3 methods support real server monitoring on SCTP (
> I am sure all three support TCP)
>
> 2) I think all 3 methods support checking some proprietary real service
> checks other than the standard services like HTTP/LDAP/FTP etc..(I think
> all 3 have a simple connection check mechanism). Please confirm if my
> understanding is correct?
>
> Any help on this is highly appreciated.
>
> Thanks
> Prasad.
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