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Quoting Andreas Ericsson <<a href="mailto:ae@op5.se">ae@op5.se</a>>:</p>
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> On 12/14/2011 07:19 AM, Aravind M D wrote:<br />
>> Quoting Andreas Ericsson <<a href="mailto:ae@op5.se">ae@op5.se</a>>:<br />
>>>> On 08/26/2011 11:05 AM, Aravind M D wrote:<br />
>>> >> Hi<br />
>>> >><br />
>>> >> I need to configure two physical servers as active-active cluster and<br />
>>> >> configure Loadbalancing with High availabiltiy for Nagios.<br />
>>> >><br />
>>> >> Can somebody help me how to achieve this.<br />
>>> >><br />
>>> >> I have checked some of loadbalancing modules like mod_gearmen,<br />
>>> merlin and<br />
>>> >> DNX. If any one knows about the difference between these modules<br />
>>> please let<br />
>>> >> me know.<br />
>>> >><br />
>>> ><br />
>>> > If you want loadbalancing with takeover capabilities, Merlin is your only<br />
>>> > choice. The other two rely on a single Nagios instance to do<br />
>>> scheduling and<br />
>>> > notifications. If that instance crashes, mod_gearman and DNX<br />
>>> can't help you<br />
>>> > get any info at all.<br />
>>> ><br />
>>> > It might be possible to couple them so that mod_gearman and Merlin work<br />
>>> > together, but you'd be entering unknown territory with that mix<br />
>>> and I would<br />
>>> > be quite surprised if it worked completely without problems the<br />
>>> first time<br />
>>> > you try it.<br />
>>> ><br />
>>><br />
>> I like to use merlin for laodbalancing and high availability Nagios setup.<br />
>> I have checked the Merlin webpage i can see last release was on 2010-06-18<br />
>> after that no new releases. But when i checked the git repository i can<br />
>> see latest version is v1.1.12 whether i can use this version for<br />
>> producation environment if so how can i get this version.<br />
>><br />
><br />
> Our marketing people are ridiculously slow in updating stuff that doesn't<br />
> shine, blink, make noises or do all of the above. I'll bash them over the<br />
> head a bit.<br />
><br />
> <a href="http://git.op5.org/git/" target="_blank">http://git.op5.org/git/</a> has instructions on how to use git to clone a repo<br />
> from our public git repositories.<br />
><br />
> From <a href="http://git.op5.org/git/?p=nagios/merlin.git;a=summary" target="_blank">http://git.op5.org/git/?p=nagios/merlin.git;a=summary</a> you click any<br />
> of the snapshot links to get a tarball containing the desired version of<br />
> Merlin. Using latest tagged version is usually recommended. As of this<br />
> writing, that's 1.1.13-beta1.<br />
><br />
> --<br />
> Andreas Ericsson <a href="mailto:andreas.ericsson@op5.se">andreas.ericsson@op5.se</a><br />
> OP5 AB <a href="http://www.op5.se" target="_blank">www.op5.se</a><br />
> Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231<br />
><br />
> Considering the successes of the wars on alcohol, poverty, drugs and<br />
> terror, I think we should give some serious thought to declaring war<br />
> on peace.</blockquote>
Thanks Andreas<br />
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