On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 12:19 +0200, Jakob Curdes wrote:
> Hello, we are running a quite simple HA setup as border router, where 
> the HA logic controls internal and external IPs, the IPSec routes, 
> firewalling, and an http proxy.
> 
> Naturally the services like IPSec and proxy can only run on the machine 
> that owns the internal and external IP, so I grouped all these together 
> with the two IPs.
> 
> Now we had a hardware crash and the second machine tried to take over, 
> but did not succeed due to the fact that the IPSec start script returned 
> an error because the ipsec configration was broken.
> Obviously through the grouping HA decided "no way to run this group" and 
> gave up totally.
> 
> However, this is clearly not the behavior one would want in such a case: 
> naturally I want the other services running even if there is a problem 
> with one of them.
> Maybe grouping is the wrong concept, but then how do I force the 
> depenency on the internal and external IP ?

I think this may be of help:

http://www.clusterlabs.org/mw/Documentation

Read the article on Colocation Explained.

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