[Linux-HA] Confusion about MailTo RA and monitoring

[Lars Marowsky-Bree]

On 2007-07-16T12:00:19, Peter Kruse <pk at q-leap.com> wrote:

> >_If_ the fs goes haywire or is forcibly unmounted somehow, _and_ you're
> >not monitoring it, heartbeat will never detect that error, but instead
> >restart the application on top. That will fail though (because the fs is
> >gone), and the node be blacklisted for that resource (start failure) and
> >then migrated somewhere else. ie, no local restart will be attempted.
> Ok, but I could be living with that, if I were to do that.

Ok.

> >>If I haven't defined a monitor action in my cib
> >>for a resource, will heartbeat still probe it?
> >Yes. Probes are mandatory and cannot be bypassed.
> Are you sure?  I haven't seen the probes being called for
> MailTo RAs, or has that behaviour been changed since 2.0.8?

It has not changed, and it was called always with the 2.0.x/crm config.


Regards,
    Lars

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