Manual Intervention when Failover is Used. Take 2

[David W. Hankins]

On Sun, Nov 19, 2006 at 01:42:11PM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote:
> 	Is there any way when using omapi to shut down a dhcp
> server in a failover pair

Set the server state to 'shutdown'.

> to know when it is safe to move on to
> the next event in a script?

Either use outside checks (dhcpd.pid) or try reading the state
variable back.

> omshell doesn't seem to confirm all
> omapi connections are broken so if your script exits out too
> soon, the partner-down condition never appears in the failover
> peer.

It shouldn't be possible for one server to cleanly shutdown without
causing the peer to enter partner-down, and the exchange has nothing
to do with OMAPI by that time.

Uncleanly shutdown, definitely.

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