[SR-Users] Failover with UCARP and Monit

[Klaus Darilion]

Am 16.02.2011 11:48, schrieb Hugh Waite:
> Hello,
> I am setting up a high-availablilty kamailio system using UCARP to
> failover between active and standby instances. To detect failure, we
> intend to use Monit.
> Monit can monitor the kamailio PID and start the process when needed
> (Example on the wiki
> http://www.kamailio.org/dokuwiki/doku.php/install:configure-initd-script) and
> it can also do OPTIONS pings to verify it is working. If the pings fail
> we will initiate a ucarp swap.
> 
> However if the server is currently in standby, it does not have the V-IP
> address, so I don't want to run the OPTIONS pings (I think).

So, do not monitor a service which is not running.

Such things are usually done by a cluster resource manager (like
pacemaker).

regards
klaus