[DRBD-user] Heartbeat.

Milind Dumbare milind at linsyssoft.com
Wed Aug 23 15:31:10 CEST 2006

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Thanks a lot, but thats what heartbeat does generally. I have read all
documents of heartbeat also.

what I wanted to know is the exact steps of heartbeat with DRBD. 

On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 14:16 +0100, Sudhakar Mekathotti wrote:
> Milind Dumbare,
> 
> Basically, all heartbeat does is to check if the other computer (in a
> clustered/ha environment) is still live and kicking. When it finds
> that the other computer is dead, then it has ability to take a
> 'consequential' action defined in its config. It has nothing to do
> with implementation of drbd and their versions.
> 
> A good place to start to read about heartbeat is
> http://www.linux-ha.org/HeartbeatProgram
> >From the page:
> 'It performs death-of-node detection, communications and cluster
> management in one process.'
> 
> 
> Hope that helps
> suds.
> 
> On 8/23/06, Milind Dumbare <milind at linsyssoft.com> wrote:
> > Hey,
> >         Sorry for very may be stupid question. But do we need heartbeat running
> > on both nodes in 0.7 or 0.8pre3.
> > --
> > -Milind
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> >
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