Server Heart beat monitor

[James Wilkinson]

Jim Patterson wrote:
> Is there a simple way to implement failover on linux.  I have currently 
> got a Web Server which is being used to interface with a database.
> Recently one of the guys here started to running some backups files to 
> this server via scp.  A lot of backup files and it created DoS.  Luckily 
> only one person noticed before we realized the source of the problem.
> We have a backup web interface, we have DNS on linux, but I'm not 
> exactly sure of the approach to take to automatically bring a 2nd server 
> online, when the primary fails. Any ideas would be appreciated.
> 
> -- During the last episode the server responded to pings, but was 
> very,very slow when serving pages.

You may find this discussion recently on Fedora Devel illuminating...
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2006-February/msg00550.html

Hope this helps,

James.

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