
designated coordinator (DC)
The “master” node. This node is where the master copy of the CIB is kept. All
other nodes get their configuration and resource allocation information from the
current DC. The DC is elected from all nodes in the cluster after a membership
change.
Distributed replicated block device (drbd)
DRBD is a block device designed for building high availability clusters. The whole
block device is mirrored via a dedicated network and is seen as a network RAID-
1.
failover
Occurs when a resource or node fails on one machine and the affected resources
are started on another node.
fencing
Describes the concept of preventing access to a shared resource by non-cluster
members. It can be archived by killing (shutting down) a “misbehaving” node to
prevent it from causing trouble, locking resources away from a node whose status
is uncertain, or in several other ways. Furthermore, fencing is distinguished between
node and resource fencing.
Heartbeat resource agent
Heartbeat resource agents were widely used with Heartbeat version 1. Their use is
deprecated, but still supported in version 2. A Heartbeat resource agent can perform
start
,
stop
, and
status
operations and resides under
/etc/ha.d/
resource.d
or
/etc/init.d
. For more information about Heartbeat resource
agents, refer to
http://www.linux-ha.org/HeartbeatResourceAgent
.
local resource manager (LRM)
The local resource manager (LRM) is responsible for performing operations on
resources. It uses the resource agent scripts to carry out the work. The LRM is
“dumb” in that it does not know of any policy by itself. It needs the DC to tell it
what to do.
LSB resource agent
LSB resource agents are standard LSB init scripts. LSB init scripts are not limited
to use in a high availability context. Any LSB-compliant Linux system uses LSB
init scripts to control services. Any LSB resource agent supports a
start
,
stop
,
restart
,
status
and
force-reload
option and may optionally provide
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