Re: Keepalived for IP failover only (no load balancing)

Martin Barry <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.keepalived.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
$quoted_author = "Aron West" ;
> 
> I've been working on a two node active/passive setup with Keepalived health
> checks for monitoring Tomcat and Glassfish application servers. I have
> studied the options in the configuration file to answer the following
> question:  is there a simple way to disable load balancing and just rely on
> Keepalived for IP failover?

Yes, you need to abuse the concept of a "sorry server" and have your active
server in the load balancing configuration and your backup server as the
sorry server.

http://kb.linuxvirtualserver.org/wiki/SorryServer#Using_keepalived


cheers
Marty

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