[Linux-ha-dev] [ANNOUNCE] (Free) Online Heartbeat Documentation from Novell

[Lars Marowsky-Bree]

On 2007-06-14T16:15:55, David Lee <t.d.lee at durham.ac.uk> wrote:

> Is the functionality behind "yast2 heartbeat" available somehow to
> non-SuSE users? 

All that does is configure /etc/ha.d/ha.cf + authkeys and invoke scp to
copy it to all nodes.

And to be brutally honest, I've never used it myself, but always vi.
;-)

If you want to contribute improvements to the documentation on how to do
this w/o YaST2, that'll be welcome.

> Is the heartbeat-specific knowledge/script/code behind that command
> somewhere in the heartbeat source code?  (So that a non-SuSE person
> can get from "make install" (or "rpm -i ..."  etc.) to being able to
> invoke "hb_gui" easily?)

No, but you can download the yast2 heartbeat module source code if you
really want. And, YaST2 is GPL, you could port it to non-SUSE ;-)


Regards,
    Lars

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