Installation guide

Appendix B.

Selectively Installing Red Hat Cluster Suite

Packages

B.1. Installing the Red Hat Cluster Suite Packages

Red Hat Cluster Suite consists of the following RPM packages:

• rgmanager — Manages cluster services and resources

• system-config-cluster — Contains the Cluster Conﬁguration Tool, used to

graphically conﬁgure the cluster and the display of the current status of the nodes,

resources, fencing agents, and cluster services

• ccsd — Contains the cluster conﬁguration services daemon (ccsd) and associated ﬁles

• magma — Contains an interface library for cluster lock management

• magma-plugins — Contains plugins for the magma library

• cman — Contains the Cluster Manager (CMAN), which is used for managing cluster

membership, messaging, and notiﬁcation

• cman-kernel — Contains required CMAN kernel modules

• dlm — Contains distributed lock management (DLM) library

• dlm-kernel — Contains required DLM kernel modules

• fence — The cluster I/O fencing system that allows cluster nodes to connect to a variety

of network power switches, ﬁbre channel switches, and integrated power management

interfaces

• gulm — Contains the GULM lock management userspace tools and libraries (an alter-

native to using CMAN and DLM).

• iddev — Contains libraries used to identify the ﬁle system (or volume manager) in

which a device is formatted

Also, you can optionally install Red Hat GFS on your Red Hat Cluster Suite. Red Hat GFS

consists of the following RPMs:

• GFS — The Red Hat GFS module

• GFS-kernel — The Red Hat GFS kernel module

• gnbd — The GFS Network Block Device module