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7.3. Moving Resources Due to Connectivity Changes
Setting up the cluster to move resources when external connectivity is lost is a two-step process.
- Add a
ping
resource to the cluster. Theping
resource uses the system utility of the same name to test if a list of machines (specified by DNS host name or IPv4/IPv6 address) are reachable and uses the results to maintain a node attribute calledpingd
. - Configure a location constraint for the resource that will move the resource to a different node when connectivity is lost.
Table 5.1, “Resource Properties” describes the properties you can set for a
ping
resource.
Table 7.1. Properties of a ping resources
Field | Description |
---|---|
dampen
| |
multiplier
| |
host_list
|
The following example command creates a
ping
resource that verifies connectivity to www.example.com
. In practice, you would verify connectivity to your network gateway/router. You configure the ping
resource as a clone so that the resource will run on all cluster nodes.
# pcs resource create ping ocf:pacemaker:ping dampen=5s multiplier=1000 host_list=www.example.com --clone
The following example configures a location constraint rule for the existing resource named
Webserver
. This will cause the Webserver
resource to move to a host that is able to ping www.example.com
if the host that it is currently running on cannot ping www.example.com
# pcs constraint location Webserver rule score=-INFINITY pingd lt 1 or not_defined pingd