[Linux-HA] Confusion about MailTo RA and monitoring

[Peter Kruse]

Hi Lars,

Lars Marowsky-Bree 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.

> 
>> My second question is:
>> 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?

	Peter