Re: How to achieve fail over in ldap servers

[Jorge Bianquetti de las Heras <jbianquetti@sadiel.es>]

On Thu, 10 Oct 2002 13:49:11 -0600 (MDT)
"Alan Sparks" <asparks@doublesparks.net> wrote:

you can use vrrpd for virtualized ips

> Maybe not directly.  If you're using apps that can accept two server IP
> addresses and use the first it can connect to, or if you can simply create
> a DNS record with the two IP addresses and use the name, you may get off
> cheap and good enough.
> 
> for real high availability and failover, you'll need a load balancer. 
> Either something like the Linux Virtual Server project
> http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/ or a hardware-based solution like an
> Alteon or F5 load balancing switch is the right way to go.
> 
> -Alan
> 
> Venkat Reddy Valluri said:
> > Hi
> >     We have two OpenLDAP servers insatalled,   if one server fail over,
> > can another server takes up and serves up,
> > If there is any option to do that can you pl help me doing this
> >
> > Thks in advance
> > --Venkat
> 
> 
> ===========
> Alan Sparks, UNIX/Linux Systems Administrator    <asparks@doublesparks.net>
> 
> 


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Saludos, Jorge.