Binary package “keepalived” in ubuntu kinetic

Failover and monitoring daemon for LVS clusters

 keepalived is used for monitoring real servers within a Linux
 Virtual Server (LVS) cluster. keepalived can be configured to
 remove real servers from the cluster pool if it stops responding,
 as well as send a notification email to make the admin aware of
 the service failure.
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 In addition, keepalived implements an independent Virtual Router
 Redundancy Protocol (VRRPv2; see RFC 2338 for additional info)
 framework for director failover.