Re: Replication Cluster Monitoring

On 07.08.2015 3:12, HEMPLEMAN Matthew wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> Please bear with me as I’m not a dba and I’m new to Postgres. I’m
> writing a Java application to monitor a streaming replication cluster
> (Windows). I want to monitor the Master and initiate failover if
> necessary (something like a scaled down version of pgpool). I also
> want to monitor the standby and terminate synchronous replication in
> the event of a failure. At this point, my app is polling the Master
> every N seconds and triggering a failover if the wait is too long or
> it receives a connection error. I’m worried that this method of
> assessing server health could lead to false-failovers. Any
> suggestions as to specific health checks I could run or issues I
> should watch out for? Thanks!
>
>
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I think you should follow this way:
http://clusterlabs.org/wiki/PgSQL_Replicated_Cluster

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Alex Ignatov
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