Re: heartbeat monitoring/failover list

On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Martin Hamilton wrote:

> At the recent WWW caching workshop in Manchester [1], there was quite
> a bit of interest in developing a free software (or should that be
> "open source" ?) system for doing the sort of heartbeat monitoring and
> transparent failover characterised by various Unix/NT/switch vendors
> "high availability" and "clustering" offerings. There doesn't appear
> to be anything out there at the moment - unless you know better!
>
> If you'd like to help out on this (or you know better :-), drop a
> line to heartbeat-request@net.lut.ac.uk to join in the fun.

Check out the Alteon offerings (AceSwitch, AceDirector) which have health
check functionality. (http://www.alteon.com)

lbnamed springs to mind as a free offering (Load Balanced named).

RYO may be another way ;-)

J.

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