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Heartbeat

Author Alan Robertson
Site http://www.linux-ha.org/download/
Licence GNU General Public Licence

Heartbeat implements a heartbeat as per section 4.4 over raw serial, PPP over serial and UDP/IP over ethernet. In the case of fail-over, heartbeat effects IP address takeover. When a fail-over occurs heartbeat can activate or deactivate resources. A resource is a programme that is executed by heartbeat and hence, heartbeat can be used to produce arbitrary system changes on fail-over.



Horms 2001-11-23