Information about the package, keepalived, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The keepalived package is designed for, Load balancer and high availability service.
Package Name:
keepalived
Summary:
Load balancer and high availability service
Description:
Keepalived provides simple and robust facilities for load balancing and high availability. The load balancing framework relies on the well-known and widely used Linux Virtual Server (IPVS) kernel module providing layer-4 (transport layer) load balancing. Keepalived implements a set of checkers to dynamically and adaptively maintain and manage a load balanced server pool according their health. Keepalived also implements the Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRPv2) to achieve high availability with director failover.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.2.13
Release:
5.el6_6
Size:
214 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+
Control the keepalived package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install keepalived
This command will install keepalived on the server.
yum remove keepalived
This command will un-install keepalived on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove keepalived, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove keepalived
This command will un-install keepalived on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove keepalived when using the -y flag.
yum update keepalived
This command will update keepalived to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove keepalived, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update keepalived
This command will update keepalived to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove keepalived when using the -y flag.
yum info keepalived
This command will show you core information about the keepalived package.
yum deplist keepalived
This command will show you the dependencies for keepalived. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update keepalived
This command will check if there is an update waiting on keepalived. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.