SW for Failover system

[Daniel Carrillo]

2006/5/5, Padiyath Sreekumaran <kumar.padiyath at psi.ch>:
>
> Hello,

Hi

>   Perhaps Iam at wrong FAQ list. I have 2 machines, say, a server and a
> slave machine.If server goes down because of some reasons slave should
> comes in operation.Has any one got experience with such a configuration?
> Is there any SW available?(preferred free one if possible). Is there any
> docs available on the net? We need such configurations for our different
> servers(webserver, database server etc.)

You can start with:

http://www.linux-ha.org/  (HeartBeat Project for your requeriments)

And, of course, the cluster solutions from RHEL:

http://www.redhat.com/software/rha/cluster

Cheers.