Re: [Devil-linux-develop] Keepalived

[Bruce S. <bw...@re...>]

Do we need to replace heartbeat with keepalived, or can they both be
on the CD allowing individuals to choose between the two?

 - BS


> Hi DL-Developers,
>
>
> I have recently switched from heartbeat to keepalived for my LVS-director
> software on the latest DL.
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>
> From the homepage:
>
> What is Keepalived ?
>
> The main goal of the keepalived project is to add a strong & robust
> keepalive facility to the Linux Virtual Server project. This project is
> written in C with multilayer TCP/IP stack checks. Keepalived implements a
> framework based on three family checks : Layer3, Layer4 & Layer5/7. This
> framework gives the daemon the ability of checking a LVS server pool states.
> When one of the server of the LVS server pool is down, keepalived informs
> the linux kernel via a setsockopt call to remove this server entrie from the
> LVS topology. In addition keepalived implements an independent VRRPv2 stack
> to handle director failover. So in short keepalived is a userspace daemon
> for LVS cluster nodes healthchecks and LVS directors failover.
>
>
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> IMHO: keepalived is the easier choice if one would only have some virtual ip
> addresses with some realservers watched and there is no need to set up some
> BIG cluster with harddisk failovers ore stonith-devices.
>
>
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> Keepalived works great with conntrackd; conntrackd already provides a bunch
> of sample-scripts in its /etc-directory to get things working.
>
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> If you are interested in including keepalived in the DL distribution I could
> check in the needed scripts.
>
>
>
> But one of you with FTP-Access would need to put
> http://www.keepalived.org/software/keepalived-1.1.19.tar.gz into the src.
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> Mit freundlichen Grüßen/Kind regards,
>
> Björn Rudner
> Systems Engineer