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Diffstat (limited to 'sysutils/heartbeat/pkg-descr')
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1 files changed, 15 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/sysutils/heartbeat/pkg-descr b/sysutils/heartbeat/pkg-descr index 89fdf0a7ff42..b9b22ad00bbf 100644 --- a/sysutils/heartbeat/pkg-descr +++ b/sysutils/heartbeat/pkg-descr @@ -1,24 +1,21 @@ -heartbeat is a basic high-availability subsystem. It will run -scripts at initialization, and when machines go up or down. This -version will also perform IP address takeover using gratuitous ARPs. +The Heartbeat program is one of the core components of the Linux-HA +(High-Availability Linux) project. Heartbeat is highly portable, +and runs on every known Linux platform, and also on FreeBSD and +Solaris. Ports to other OSes are also in progress. -It implements the following kinds of heartbeats: - - Bidirectional Serial Rings ("raw" serial ports) - - UDP/IP broadcast (ethernet, etc) - - Unicast heartbeats - - "ping" heartbeats (for routers, switches, etc.) - (to be used for breaking ties in 2-node systems) +Heartbeat is the first piece of software which was written for the +Linux-HA project. It performs death-of-node detection, +communications and cluster management in one process. -ldirectord is a stand-alone daemon to monitor services. +The Heartbeat program has been around for a while. It has a great +many strengths, and yet there were a few weaknesses in version 1 +that needed to be addressed: -The STONITH module (a.k.a. STOMITH) provides an extensible interface -for remotely powering down a node in the cluster. +- limitation on two nodes for cluster size +- inability to monitor resources for their correct operation +- minimal ability to express dependency information -PILS is an generalized and portable open source Plugin and Interface -Loading System. PILS manages both plugins (loadable objects), and -the interfaces these plugins implement. PILS is designed to support -any number of plugins implementing any number of interfaces. +This release removes these limitations. -WWW: http://linux-ha.org/ -Scott Kleihege <scott-ports@tummy.com> +WWW: http://linux-ha.org |