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On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, Jason Steenblik wrote:
> I am running ipvs 0.8 on a 2.4.3 kernel and need to monitor the
> availability of my smtp realservers. What is the best method of doing
> this?
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> >From my reading and short testing this is what I found (I think).
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> Mon worked but didn't seem as elegant as the others.
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> ldirectord doesn't work for smtp realserver.
It should. If I remember well it has a "generic TCP" connection check that
only verifies if a TCP connection to the specified host:port is possible or
not. There is also a sample for checking telnet on real servers in the default
config.
> Keepalived doesn't work with 2.4 kernels.
Didn't test but I saw no mention of this. It should work because it is only
userspace.
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> Are the above statements true or false? Does anyone have any advice
> about what to use to monitor the smtp boxes?
Radu-Adrian Feurdean
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