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Cluster Network Services
Ultra Monkey is a project to create load balanced and highly
available network services. For example a cluster of web servers
that appear as a single web server to end-users. The service may
be for end-users across the world connected via the internet, or
for enterprise users connected via an intranet.
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Flexible
Ultra Monkey makes use of the Linux operating system to
provide a flexible solution that can be tailored to a wide
range of needs. From small clusters of only two nodes to large
systems serving thousands of connections per second.
Use Any Operating System
While the Ultra Monkey software itself runs on Linux,
it is able to provide clustering for virtually any network
services running on an operating system that can communicate
using TCP or UDP. This means almost any operating system,
including Windows™, Solaris™ and of course Linux itself.
Supports a Wide Range of Protocols
Ultra Monkey supports a wide range of protocols,
with native health checks for: Web, Mail, FTP, News, LDAP and DNS.
Other protocols can be suported using a non-native health check
or by adding a custom health check.
Open Source
Ultra Monkey is open source.
It makes use of software from various open source projects
including
The Linux Virtual Server and
Heartbeat. Members of the
Ultra Monkey project actively contribute to the open source projects
whose software is used. Horms, the Ultra Monkey project lead, is
one of the core members of the development teams for both Heartbeat and
The Linux Virtual Server.
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Supported Distribitions
Ultra Monkey provides binary packages for a selected list of
distributions. Source packages are also available.
At this time the following distributions are supported:
Updates
The Ultra Monkey team tracks software packages and
releases updates for security or other critical bugs.
This includes the kernel as Ultra Monkey provides a kernel
patched with The Linux Virtual Server and other
related patches. Announcements of these updates packages
are available in the News Archive.
Documentation
Ultra Monkey also provides concise documentation in English
and Japanese to allow system administrators to easily install and
configure an Ultra Monkey cluster. The documentation is available
online at www.ultramonkey.org and ultramonkey.jp. Ultra Monkey does not
however place restrictions on the way that the underlying software and
Linux itself is used, allowing users to customise the system to their
needs.
Free Support
Ultra Monkey provides free email support to users in
Japanese and English through the ultramonkey-users@ultramonkey.org
and ultramonkey-users@lists.sourceforge.jp mailing lists.
Support is also available through the mailing lists of
the open source projects whose software Ultra Monkey uses.
Commercial Support and Custom Development
Much of the work on Ultra Monkey is sponsored by
VA Linux Systems Japan.
As a Linux software company they are able to provide create custom
extensions to Ultra Monkey and its components, as well as commercial
support.
For more information please see the Ultra Monkey web site.
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Horms
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