Re: Question about monitrc file.

[via . lej]

Ok, and if i want to switch between the 2 nodes ? How can i do ?

        I just wanna switch between the both nodes if a service failed (so, i 
thought
that shutdown heartbeat in order to do a switching would be a right way...no?)

"When problems appear on active node it will ask the standby to take over the
resources, and the failover is made."

How to configure monit to do that ? on my config, monit can restart a stopped
service, but if the service failed to start, the service is declared as "timed
out" and....nothing, the node is always primary...do you follow me ?


Vianney

PS: i'm using the same cfg as you


Le Tue, 28 Aug 2007 10:06:03 +0200, Jovan Kostovski <address@hidden> a
écrit:

On 8/27/07, address@hidden <address@hidden> wrote:
I would like to do these step:

As soon as the process is declared as not running (misconfiguration etc...),
launch the "monit heartbeat stop" command is order to change the active node.
Any idea ?

Ok, now I clearly see what you want to do
At frist I must say you've missed the whole concept, when want to make failover,
you should never shutdown the service that enables communication
between the nodes of the server.

You can use monit to monitor the services that are running locally on
each node and heartbeat to let the nodes of your server to communicate
between each other and to ask each other to make failover in case of
problems.

Heartbeat can communicate over a ethernet or serial connection. The
usual way is to configure it to communicate over ethernet and  to use
the serial line as a redundant link. The fail over condition is can be
defined by many parameters. The basic is the state of the services
that are under its control (those scripts defined in
/etc/ha.d/resource.d), checks to see if the other node of the server
is "alive", than it can monitor the node's visibility to the outer
world, it has a list of ip addresses that pinged - a ping forum, so
when pinging if the active node receives less responses than the
standby it will perform the failover. Heartbeat will always run so
that the nodes can ask each other to make failover

So here is a small description how to make monit and hearbeat live together
This is the solution that I've used (both nodes should be configured this way):

The idea is to create two service groups, the first enables basic
functionality of the node and the second will contain the services
under heartbeat command.

1. configure two groups of services in monitrc

local: the one that enables basic functionality of the node (postfix,
heartbeat, some mounts, if needed). In this group you should at least
have postfix (to have active MTA so monit can send e-mail alerts) and
heartbeat to monitor the state of the services and the whole node.

cluster: the applications which are monitored (apache, mysql.......).
put all the start scripts in /etc/ha.d/resource.d + one script that
will start the group cluster in monit
something like: /usr/bin/monit start -g cluster

2. configure heartbeat to execute the script for starting monit's
group cluster when starting

3. configure monit to start in respawn mode at boot, set this in /etc/inittab.
 start monit with group "local" in respawn mode, so if it crashes it
will be restarted by the kernel.

What do we gain from this setup?
At boot time when monit starts it sets the basic functionality of the
server, than heartbeat takes over the control and it checks to see
what's the situation of the nodes (the two heartbeats running on each
node communicate with each other to
see who will take the resources). Monit monitors the services that run
locally, and heartbeat checks the state of the services and makes a
failover if needed.

If you type : monit summary
the active node will show you that all services are running, and the
passive will show you that all the services in the local group are
running and the services from group cluster are not monitored. When
problems appear on active node it will ask the standby to take over
the resources, and the failover is made.

I hope you got the picture

BR, Jovan


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