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NAME

       apphbd - Application Heartbeat Monitor for High-Availability Linux

SYNOPSIS

       apphbd [-srkdh] [-c file]

DESCRIPTION

	   Warning
	   apphbd is deprecated; its use is strongly discouraged. The functionality provided by apphbd has been replaced by resource-level
	   monitoring in Pacemaker.

       /usr/lib/heartbeat/apphbd is a basic application heartbeat monitor daemon for Linux-HA. A group of Application Heartbeat APIs are defined
       for this heartbeat monitoring service. Applications may register with the daemon in order to be monitored. If an application fails to send
       a heartbeat within the specified interval, the daemon will log an event.

       apphbd may use a watchdog timer to monitor itself.

       apphbd extends its functionality by using plugins. A plugin, recmgr notifies the recovery manager daemon if certain events occur (e.g. an
       application fails to heartbeat).

       The Recovery Manager daemon (/usr/lib/heartbeat/recoverymgrd) receives notification from the recmgr plugin, then it tries to execute
       recovery scripts as configured. See the recoverymgrd default configuration file, recoverymgrd.conf for details.

       recoverymgrd registers itself with apphbd as a client application.  apphbd should be started first with the recmgr plugin loaded. Then,
       recoverymgrd should be configured and started

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       -s
	   Show the status of apphbd, running or stopped.

       -k
	   Stop (kill) the daemon.

       -r
	   Restart the daemon.	apphbd will reload its configuration file when restarted.

       -d level
	   Set the debug level.

       -h
	   Show a brief usage message.

       -c file
	   Set an alternate configuration file. The default configuration file is ./apphbd.cf. For details on the file format and supported
	   options, refer to the example apphbd.cf file found in the documentation directory.

FILES

       o   /var/run/apphbd.pid - default PID file

       o   apphbd.cf - Default configuration file for apphbd.  apphbd searches the file in its working directory.

       o   recoverymgrd.conf - default configuration file for recoverymgrd. recoverymgrd searches the file in its working directory. An
	   alternative configuration file may be specified on the command line.

       o   /usr/lib/heartbeat/plugins/AppHBNotification - directory containing plugins for apphbd.

SEE ALSO

       heartbeat(8)

AUTHORS

       Alan Robertson <alanr@unix.sh>
	   apphbd

       Andrea Brugger <andrea.l.brugger@intel.com>
	   man page

       Florian Haas <florian.haas@linbit.com>
	   man page

Heartbeat 3.0.5 						 November 26, 2009							 APPHBD(8)