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List:       linux-ha-dev
Subject:    Re: [Linux-ha-dev] Heartbeat Status
From:       Alan Robertson <alanr () unix ! sh>
Date:       2001-07-28 3:55:37
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Ragnar Kjørstad wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 07:20:33PM -0400, Greg Freemyer wrote:
> > Ragnar,
> >
> > I know your new to the list, so I thought I would give you a quick status
> > update.

Thanks Greg!
 
> Thanks
> 
> > I would guess that Alan's goal is to have the next release support Linux (Suse,
> > Debian, Redhat), FreeBSD, and Solaris.
> >
> > I don't know if Alan is planning any new features in the next release, or just
> > this portability issue.

A few new minor features.  Probably including the patch from lclaudio for
gracefully failing over resources.
 
> There are two features I'd like to see in heartbeat soon(tm):
> * wait for stonith to complete before moving resources
>   (see different email)

Patches are being accepted ;-)

> * framework for application monitoring.

There is a fellow at Anna University (karunakar reddy) who is looking into
this for completion by November for his class work.

>   I hope to find time to look into this, and would appreciate some
>   info on where to start.

You might look at the "monitor" operation in the IPaddr resource script for
more insight to my current thinking.  I'm sure Karunakar would be happy to
have others review his design and code as he goes forward.

>   Maybe there should be a common interface
>   to the scripts so code can be shared with failsafe and other software?
>   I hope this is something you're discussing in Ottawa!

Yes, we've discussed a whole common framework -- and this is something which
could easily be a "low hanging fruit".  Lars is quite interested in this...

	-- Alan Robertson
	   alanr@unix.sh
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