tis 2010-06-22 klockan 09:53 +0600 skrev Eugene M. Zheganin: > Hi. > > On 21.06.2010 23:12, Henrik Nordström wrote: > >> However, this doesn't solve the service outage, which I have to handle > >> manually, for example raising the priority on the backup node. > >> > > What kind of service failure do you need manual action? > > > In this case - squid crash. So your CARP setup forgot to monitor the status of Squid when determining which node should be master. A simple monitor which "ifconfig carp0 down" when Squid is not running and "ifconfig carp0 up" when found running should be sufficient. > Last time I saw heartbeat - it was using some script stuff to set/unset > ip aliases on a node interface. This is kinda... weird. Linux heartbeat runs in userspace. No need to clutter the kernel with this kind of functionality. Regards Henrik