[Linux-HA] Node "wants to go standby [all]"

[Alan Robertson]

ha at freightgate.com wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have two nodes that share a floating IP.
> They exchange heartbeat signals via 2 eth interfaces and a serial cable.
> 
> One of the nodes (data2) was offline for a while (heartbeat stopped). When
> it came back online, the active node (data1) decided it wanted to go standby
> and give up all resources - without apparent reason. I have "auto_failback
> off" configured, so as far as I understand, this should not happen.
> 
> What could trigger data1 to go standby?

ipfail could trigger this.  In fact, it probably did, since heartbeat won't 
do this on it's own.  Or, someone ran hb_standby.

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