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SAM_START(3) Corosync Cluster Engine Programmer's Manual SAM_START(3)

NAME

sam_start - Start health checking

SYNOPSIS

#include <corosync/sam.h>

cs_error_t sam_start (void);

DESCRIPTION

The sam_start function is used to start health checking of application. After calling this function, the active process needs to send healthchecks within the registered time interval by calling sam_hc_send(3). If event driven healthchecking is configured by calling sam_register(3), an internal thread will be created and send health check confirmations four times per time_interval.

Application must be registered by calling sam_register(3) before this function can be called.

An application can always stop health checking by calling the sam_stop(3) function.

RETURN VALUE

This call return CS_OK value if successful, otherwise and error is returned.

ERRORS

component was not registered by calling sam_register(3) function.

SEE ALSO

sam_hc_send(3), sam_stop(3), sam_register(3), sam_hc_callback_register(3)

12/01/2009 corosync Man Page