Redhat 5 Cluster suite

[Bruce Labitt]

Kenny Lussier wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Sorry if this is a re-post, but I sent it yesterday, and I haven't 
> seen it come through yet....
>
> I have been tasked with some clustering work, and I have run into a 
> few snags. Is anyone familiar with the RHEL 5 clustering suite? The 
> situation that I have is that I have a system that needs to be set up 
> as a failover cluster. There are two services running (http and ftp) 
> that are essential services, so if either of them die, the system 
> needs to fail over to the other system. The snag is that I have a 
> third service (rinetd) that isn't important, and I just want to have 
> it re-started if it dies. I can set it up so that rinetd is 
> re-started, but then if the box fails over, rinetd isn't started on 
> the other system. If I tie rinetd to the the IP address resource or to 
> one of the essential resources, then the whole system fails over if 
> rinetd dies (when the cluster manager detects a failure in rinetd, it 
> re-starts the service, but fails over the box anyway). 
>
> Has anyone dealt with anything similar to this?
>
> TIA,
> Kenny 
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Yes, it was a repost.  Did you read this?

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/csgfs/browse/4.6/Cluster_Suite_Overview/s1-service-management-overview-CSO.html

It sounds like you want high availability.  There is a description of 
the fail over service in the above link.  I am sorry I have no 
experience in this.  I was recently looking into clusters for massively 
parallel computation.

Regards,
Bruce