APPHBD(8) System administration utilitie APPHBD(8)
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 The functionality provided by apphbd has been replaced by resource-level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)
