RE: current 1.3.1 testing
Rob Hagopian <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.network.up2date.current.devel |
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| Message-ID | <F4A736AE282FD511BC28009027CC7C590236BD17@gopostal> |
> Right now, shutting the Apache server down is the only way to > ensure there aren't issues with cadmin and the server running at the > same time; we're trying to figure out how to best do some sort of > process locking now. The methods used in 1.0.5 to detect a running daemon appear to work well, they don't translate well over to the python module? > There's not really a facility for redundant server built into > Current, and if there ever is going to be, it's a long way down the > road. The best thing to do right now is what you mentioned - > mirror the > server hosts, and make sure the databases on both hosts are updated at > the same time, then use DNS to initiate a manual failover if > necessary. To be truly (automatically) redundant you can use heartbeat and mon to do failover, they work fairly well, although it'd probably be useful to develop a mon module to actually check current's status... -Rob