Heartbeat is a project from Linux-HA. http://www.linux-ha.org/wiki/Heartbeat. Heartbeat will be helpful when we would have pair and/or more servers which are configured to replicate in circular fashion. I.e In MySQL Replication, if master will be fail we have to do manually failover or we have to make script which will manage this thing. But if
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