At a quick glance, I'd say fencing doesn't meet your needs, and RH Cluster Suite may be overkill. You've worked out the details of failover, you just need to automate it. Have you tried heartbeat? It is well suited for simple failover of resources such as IP addresses. http://www.linux-ha.org/ -Jeff -----Original Message----- From: linux-cluster-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-cluster-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Soren Hansen Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2007 6:07 PM To: linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Highly available services I've been trying to work this out from manuals and FAQ's, but I find myself at a bit of a loss. Scenario: I have 2 nodes, A and B. I want to set up a website using apache/php and mysql. When both nodes are functioning, node A should respond to http requests, and node B as database backend for node A and possibly for other clients, too. In case of node failure, the service of the failing node should obviously fail over to the remaining node. Both of the nodes are in fact running MySQL, with bidirectional replication set up. No shared storage involved. Both of the nodes are also running apache/php. The php and html files and such are pushed from elsewhere to the two nodes, so no shared storage here either. Let's say that we have the following addresses: a.foo.com = 10.0.0.1 b.foo.com = 10.0.0.2 www.foo.com = 10.0.0.11 db.foo.com = 10.0.0.12 Node A will own 10.0.0.1, node B 10.0.0.2, and the node currently providing www would also have 10.0.0.11, and the node currently providing mysql would have 10.0.0.12, and the latter two could of course migrate in case of a failing node. Now, due to the nature of the services provided, there is no notable potential for damage if a node fails, and the other node detects this and the ip corresponding to its migrates to the still functioning node, so there's not really any point investing a lot of cash in proper fencing hardware. I just want to have as little down time as possible. So, the question is: How do I do this using redhat cluster suite? Even using fence_manual I still have to somehow notice the failing node, log on to the remaining node, and do the fence_ack_manual dance, correct? -- Soren Hansen Ubuntu Server Team http://www.ubuntu.com/ -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
