Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 14:21:20 +0900
To: linux-ha@muc.de
From: Richard Sharpe <sharpe@ns.aus.com>
Subject: Re: Understudy from the Rodagroup: HA for Linux and Slowaris

At 11:37 PM 10/11/98 -0500, Michael Brennan <mbrennen@fni.com> wrote:
>
>Who?  Where?  How much?  etc.

Oops:

Who: Contact Michael Callahan <mjc@rodagroup.com>

Where: He will point you at some web pages

How much: Don't know, but I have the Beta. Soon to install.

>   -- Michael
>
>On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Richard Sharpe wrote:
>
>> here is some blurb from another company that does High Availability
>> software for Linux:
>> 
>>
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>> We're currently in beta-test with a product that does IP alias fail-over
>> on Linux (also Solaris and NT).  Basically: you install our product on a
>> couple servers on the same subnet; daemons run on both that monitor the
>> health both at an OS and application level of one or more IP aliases; and
>> in the event of hardware/OS/application failure, the IP alias is moved
>> from primary to backup.  Both machines can do other things as well and, in
>> fact, each can back up the other.  Our initial product only handles
>> clusters of two servers; of course, you can have multiple pairs of
>> machines in separate clusters.  The initial product also doesn't handle
>> replicating data; you have to do that yourself.
>
>
>

Regards
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