Spruell, Darren-Perot wrote: > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> CARP comes very close to solving the problem, but it's not specific to >> individual tcp ports afaik. So it would help if a box becomes >> completely unreachable, but if only the service stops working it's not >> that useful. >> >> Essentially I'm looking for a very simple daemon that can monitor >> services on several machines and trigger pfctl when the availablity of >> the services changes. >> >> It's been suggested to me that the Linux-HA/heartbeat package may have >> what I'm looking for, but from what I can tell it's never successfully >> run on OpenBSD. > > CARP is superior to that script-driven unmaintained garbage for the HA > functionality. Other functionality can be met by other means...
Using heartbeat for several years on linux makes me comfortable in stating clearly: stay away from it - it's rubbish. Haven't looked at heartbeat2, though. >> Any thoughts, suggestions or pointers would be very appreciated. > > monit comes to mind, although I've never used it but I think you can write > event handlers for service states. Oh, didn't know that one, thanks. I once used 'mon' on linux which seems to be no longer maintained. -- Stephan A. Rickauer ----------------------------------------------------------- Institut f|r Neuroinformatik Tel: +41 44 635 30 50 Universitdt / ETH Z|rich Sek: +41 44 635 30 52 Winterthurerstrasse 190 Fax: +41 44 635 30 53 CH-8057 Z|rich Web: www.ini.ethz.ch RSA public key: https://www.ini.ethz.ch/~stephan/pubkey.asc ----------------------------------------------------------- [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]
