Re: Intelligent IP sprayer or round robin

[Chris Whisonant <chris.whisonant@xxxxxxxxx>]

I've had a lot of success with haproxy. Check it out. And if you
incorporate heartbeat with it then if one haproxy goes down the other
will pick up its ip and start directing traffic.


Thanks,
Chris



On Jul 27, 2012, at 10:28 PM, "rob@xxxxxxxxx" <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I am looking for an intelligent IP sprayer or round robin configuration. A
> simple ping is NOT sufficient.  For example, if I have a location like
> sametime.corp.dekko.com and I have two servers sametime01.corp.dekko.com
> and sametime02.corp.dekko.com I want it to route it to one of these that
> is actually working.  Now, just because I can ping
> sametime01.corp.dekko.com and it comes back successfully doesn't mean the
> service is working.  The ping will be returned by the OS.  The service may
> be a job running under the subsystem assigned to the a particular Domino
> server.
>
> Is there some way to do this?
>
> I also don't want to go from saying:
> "We only have one sametime server.  If that is down we're toast."
> to saying:
> "We only have one intelligent IP sprayer.  If that is down we're toast."
> IOW, I don't want to just trickle up the single point of failure.
>
>
> Rob Berendt
> --
> IBM Certified System Administrator - IBM i 6.1
> Group Dekko
> Dept 1600
> Mail to:  2505 Dekko Drive
>          Garrett, IN 46738
> Ship to:  Dock 108
>          6928N 400E
>          Kendallville, IN 46755
> http://www.dekko.com
>
> _______________________________________________
> This is the Lotus Domino on the iSeries / AS400 (Domino400) mailing list
> To post a message email: Domino400@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options,
> visit: http://lists.midrange.com/mailman/listinfo/domino400
> or email: Domino400-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives
> at http://archive.midrange.com/domino400.