Re: mc/serviceguard cluster fails once

From: Alvaro Miranda (acmirand_at_puc.cl)
Date: 05/19/04 

Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 08:36:45 -0400

Hi,

Thanks for reply.

What do you recommend I need to start checking?, I want to find why when the
main switch went down, the cluster made a fail-over. The cluster is using 3
interfaces for heartbeat, I check recently and the ping went pretty well.

Thanks for any help.

Álvaro.

"nissan350z" <ota1998@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:40ab1d08$0$8406$a0ced6e1@news.skynet.be...
> Hi,
>
> The best solution is to send heartbeat on all interface. 2 is a minimun
and
> preferably on different subnet (or vlan). Stationary (=interface not
sending
> heartbeat) is not a good idea.
> Heartbeat must be able to reach other node in any failure scenario
otherwize
> reboot will occur on isolated node (disk lock lost).
> For example, don't put all interfaces on the same switch.
>
> Alain.
>
>

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