Managing cluster failovers

[Thomas Guyot-Sionnest]

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On 24/11/09 05:23 AM, keshav murthy wrote:
> Hi All,
>  
> I would like to know what is the best mechanism to monitor cluster
> resources through nagios.
>  
> We have the disks that failover to other node, in that case, in the
> parent node, nagios shows the drive as invalid and alert as UNKOWN.
>  
> Any help is highly appreciated.

Use a failover IP (that follows the disk) for monitoring any cluster
resources, so that it's always monitoring the active node.

As a mater of fact most clustered resources will have a failover IP that
clients connect to regardless of the server that runs them.

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Thomas
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