Information about the package, heartbeat, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The heartbeat package is designed for, Messaging and membership subsystem for High-Availability Linux.
Package Name:
heartbeat
Summary:
Messaging and membership subsystem for High-Availability Linux
URL:
Description:
heartbeat is a basic high-availability subsystem for Linux-HA. It will run scripts at initialization, and when machines go up or down. This version will also perform IP address takeover using gratuitous ARPs. Heartbeat contains a cluster membership layer, fencing, and local and clusterwide resource management functionality. When used with Pacemaker, it supports "n-node" clusters with significant capabilities for managing resources and dependencies. In addition it continues to support the older release 1 style of 2-node clustering. It implements the following kinds of heartbeats: - Serial ports - UDP/IP multicast (ethernet, etc) - UDP/IP broadcast (ethernet, etc) - UDP/IP heartbeats - "ping" heartbeats (for routers, switches, etc.) (to be used for breaking ties in 2-node systems)
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
3.0.4
Release:
2.el6
Size:
161 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2 and LGPLv2+
Control the heartbeat package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install heartbeat
This command will install heartbeat on the server.
yum remove heartbeat
This command will un-install heartbeat on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove heartbeat, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove heartbeat
This command will un-install heartbeat 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 heartbeat when using the -y flag.
yum update heartbeat
This command will update heartbeat to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove heartbeat, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update heartbeat
This command will update heartbeat 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 heartbeat when using the -y flag.
yum info heartbeat
This command will show you core information about the heartbeat package.
yum deplist heartbeat
This command will show you the dependencies for heartbeat. 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 heartbeat
This command will check if there is an update waiting on heartbeat. 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.