Kenny Lussier wrote: > Hi All, > > Sorry if this is a re-post, but I sent it yesterday, and I haven't > seen it come through yet.... > > I have been tasked with some clustering work, and I have run into a > few snags. Is anyone familiar with the RHEL 5 clustering suite? The > situation that I have is that I have a system that needs to be set up > as a failover cluster. There are two services running (http and ftp) > that are essential services, so if either of them die, the system > needs to fail over to the other system. The snag is that I have a > third service (rinetd) that isn't important, and I just want to have > it re-started if it dies. I can set it up so that rinetd is > re-started, but then if the box fails over, rinetd isn't started on > the other system. If I tie rinetd to the the IP address resource or to > one of the essential resources, then the whole system fails over if > rinetd dies (when the cluster manager detects a failure in rinetd, it > re-starts the service, but fails over the box anyway). > > Has anyone dealt with anything similar to this? > > TIA, > Kenny > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ > Yes, it was a repost. Did you read this?
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/csgfs/browse/4.6/Cluster_Suite_Overview/s1-service-management-overview-CSO.html It sounds like you want high availability. There is a description of the fail over service in the above link. I am sorry I have no experience in this. I was recently looking into clusters for massively parallel computation. Regards, Bruce _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/