Since Pacemaker calculates node health based on node attributes, any method that sets node attributes may be used to measure node health. The most common ways are resource agents or separate daemons.

Pacemaker provides examples that can be used directly or as a basis for custom code. The ocf:pacemaker:HealthCPU and ocf:pacemaker:HealthSMART resource agents set node health attributes based on CPU and disk parameters. The ipmiservicelogd daemon sets node health attributes based on IPMI values (the ocf:pacemaker:SystemHealth resource agent can be used to manage the daemon as a cluster resource).