On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 6:03 PM, Nathan Williams <nath.e.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm hoping I can get some advice on how we can improve our failover setup. > > At present, we have an active-standby setup. Failover works really well, but > on the standby, none of the backend servers are marked as "up" since haproxy > is bound to the VIP that is currently on the active member (managed with > keepalived). as a result, there's an initial period of a second or two after > the failover triggers and the standby claims the VIP where the backend > servers have not yet passed a health-check on the new active member. > > It seems like the easiest way to sort it out would be if the health-checks > weren't also bound to the VIP so that the standby could complete them > successfully. i do still want the proxied requests bound to the VIP though, > forthe benefit of our backends' real-ip configuration. > > is that doable? if not, is there some way to have the standby "follow" the > active-member's view on the backends, or another way i haven't seen yet? > > Thanks! > > Nathan W
Hi Nathan, Maybe you could share your configuration. Please also let us know the real and virtual IPs configured on your master and slave HAProxy servers. Baptiste
