[Linux-cluster] heartbeat

[Dirk H. Schulz]

Fagnon Raymond schrieb:
> Here are the packages that are installed that I can find. I inherited this system so I am not sure if everything is installed. 
> rgmanager-2.0.46-1.el5
> cman-2.0.98-1.el5_3.7
> Cluster_Administration-en-US-5.2-1
> modcluster-0.12.1-2.el5
> system-config-cluster-1.0.55-1.0
>
> This cluster I believe was designed to be a failover. 
> Here is what clustat tells me
> [root at a0040slinuxgfs1 ~]# clustat
> Cluster Status for LinuxCluster @ Fri Jan 29 12:12:02 2010
> Member Status: Quorate
>
>  Member Name                                                     ID   Status
>  ------ ----                                                     ---- ------
>  a0040slinuxgfs1                                                     1 Online, Local, rgmanager
>  a0040slinuxgfs2                                                     2 Online, rgmanager
>
>  Service Name                                             Owner (Last)                                             State
>  ------- ----                                             ----- ------                                             -----
>  service:Virtual Server                                   a0040slinuxgfs1                                          started
>
> This is a gig network so bandwidth should not be an issue I believe. Please inform me on the heartbeat since I very new at this.
>
>   
Raymond,

this is a redhat cluster suite cluster. Cluster communication 
("heartbeat" and much more) is done by cman.

You might want to have a look at the docs at 
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/csgfs/.

Dirk