Hi,

 

I was hoping to configure my 2-node cluster to start as soon as both
nodes were present but wait up to 15 minutes if the other node was
missing upon system startup.  In my case, a delay of several minutes is
better than a split-brain scenario.  The Linux-HA documentation says
"The initdead parameter is used to set the time that it takes to declare
a cluster node dead when Heartbeat is first started.", so I figured I
could just set "initdead 900" in ha.cf.  Unfortunately, heartbeat seems
to be waiting for the entire initdead time interval regardless of
whether all the nodes are present.

 

Does this match others' experiences?  Is there a different setting that
could accomplish my objective?

 

It seems like the documentation would be more accurate if it said "The
initdead parameter is used to set the time that heartbeat waits before
starting any resources, which allows time for additional nodes to join."
However, I would much prefer that Linux-HA behaved according to the
original documentation.

 

I'm using Heartbeat 2.1.4 on RHEL 5.4.

 

Thank you,

David Sickmiller

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