I was giving a replication talk at Ohio Linux Fest last week and
we touched a little bit on the MySQL Failover Utility and how it
works with MySQL 5.6 .
The first thing that this along with Innodb and other replication
enhancements are big GPL offerings from Oracle to the
community.
First the usage:
[root@mysql-master python]# ./mysqlfailover --help
Usage: mysqlfailover --master=roo@localhost
--discover-slaves-login=root
--candidates=root@host123:3306,root@host456:3306
mysqlfailover - automatic replication health monitoring and
failover
....
--candidates=CANDIDATES
connection information for candidate slave servers for
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