[Pacemaker] Pacemaker / Postfix startup problem...

Carlos G Mendioroz tron at huapi.ba.ar
Thu Apr 14 16:41:13 UTC 2011


For mail, an alternative MX should do AFAIK.
Some kind of SNMP monitoring of the primary should be able to do the 
notification in a standard way also.

-Carlos

Adam Reiss @ 14/04/2011 13:32 -0300 dixit:
> I suppose there isn't any issue having it up all the time.  We're
> looking for the best way to pass the traffic to the second node, should
> the first one fail, then notify us that node 1 has failed...
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carlos G Mendioroz [mailto:tron at huapi.ba.ar] 
> Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2011 12:27 PM
> To: The Pacemaker cluster resource manager
> Subject: Re: [Pacemaker] Pacemaker / Postfix startup problem...
> 
> If it is an SMTP relay service, what's the problem with having it up all
> 
> the time ?
> -Carlos
> 
> Adam Reiss @ 14/04/2011 13:10 -0300 dixit:
>> Hi Raoul,
>>
>> We're trying to setup a HA SMTP Relay, so having pacemaker stop/start
>> the services as it passes the work over to the other machine, should
>> Postfix fail...  Is there a better way to allow an HA SMTP relay?
>>
>> It's running under VMWare, having two different guests, on two
> different
>> hosts...
>>
>> I've attached the output you've requested. :)
>>
>> There is no syslog file in /var/log .
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Raoul Bhatia [IPAX] [mailto:r.bhatia at ipax.at] 
>> Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 11:56 AM
>> To: Adam Reiss
>> Cc: The Pacemaker cluster resource manager
>> Subject: Re: [Pacemaker] Pacemaker / Postfix startup problem...
>>
>> On 04/13/2011 03:56 PM, Adam Reiss wrote:
>>> Thank you for responding Raoul!
>>>
>>> I do appreciate any help you could pass along. :)
>> hi!
>>
>> i would need the logfiles. please use hb_report to generate a report!
>> something like:
>>
>>    hb_report -f $start -t $end /root/hb_report_postfix/
>>
>> where $start is before and $end is after the problem occurred.
>>
>>
>> please also do a quick
>>
>>    grep alternate_config_directories /var/log/syslog
>>
>> and attach the output.
>>
>>
>>
>> as a side note: why do you want to manage the main postfix instance
>> via pacemaker?
>>
>> you do realize, that - unless you setup a clone, you will not
>> receive any emails (e.g. output from cronjobs, etc.) from
>> the secondary node?
>>
>> cheers,
>> raoul
>>
>>
>>
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Carlos G Mendioroz  <tron at huapi.ba.ar>  LW7 EQI  Argentina




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