In preparation to get our website (and all those other websites - like www.fh-neubrandenburg.de or www.hmt-rostock.de) clustered, someone bought the cluster version of the PacketPro 450. These things are nice, especially considering you don’t need to fiddle around with LVS yourself (which is a real pain in the ass).

The only problem I have currently with them is that they scan the database and web nodes every 30 seconds, and since we have an active node and a hot-standby both do this and producing this:

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Jul  4 18:27:29 dbc-mysql1 sshd[7313]: Did not receive identification string from 172.16.234.11
Jul  4 18:27:30 dbc-mysql1 sshd[7350]: Did not receive identification string from 172.16.234.12
Jul  4 18:27:59 dbc-mysql1 sshd[7363]: Did not receive identification string from 172.16.234.11
Jul  4 18:28:01 dbc-mysql1 sshd[7364]: Did not receive identification string from 172.16.234.12
Jul  4 18:28:31 dbc-mysql1 sshd[7393]: Did not receive identification string from 172.16.234.11
Jul  4 18:28:33 dbc-mysql1 sshd[7394]: Did not receive identification string from 172.16.234.12
Jul  4 18:29:04 dbc-mysql1 sshd[7417]: Did not receive identification string from 172.16.234.11
Jul  4 18:29:05 dbc-mysql1 sshd[7418]: Did not receive identification string from 172.16.234.12
Jul  4 18:29:36 dbc-mysql1 sshd[7419]: Did not receive identification string from 172.16.234.11
Jul  4 18:29:37 dbc-mysql1 sshd[7420]: Did not receive identification string from 172.16.234.12
Jul  4 18:30:06 dbc-mysql1 sshd[7419]: Did not receive identification string from 172.16.234.11
Jul  4 18:30:07 dbc-mysql1 sshd[7420]: Did not receive identification string from 172.16.234.12

That’s only the logs from three minutes … now figure you have it running for like four days and figure what the average log size due to such crap is … But at least it looks solvable, though I gonna have to call them tomorrow and ask for a patch/update to get their ssh-scan to send some banner when performing the service check.