Re: Failover

From: Derick Siddoway <derick(at)panther.bitflood.net>
Date: Thu May 01 2003 - 11:12:27 EDT

On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 11:53:15AM -0400, Roy Morris wrote:
> The big problem with any of these fail over methods is that they

Right, so you don't just ping the active host, you test the application on that host. If you're doing failover on a database, for instance, you actually execute some SQL for the "aliveness" test. At least, that's how it worked on both sun and veritas clusters.

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Derick Siddoway Yay, sleep! That's where I'm a viking! derick@bitflood.net - Ralph Wiggam Received on Thu May 1 11:18:47 2003