Installation guide

148 Appendix B. Selectively Installing Red Hat Cluster Suite Packages

• gnbd-kernel — Kernel module for the GFS Network Block Device

• lvm2-cluster — Cluster extensions for the logical volume manager

• GFS-kernheaders — GFS kernel header ﬁles

• gnbd-kernheaders — gnbd kernel header ﬁles

Tip

You can access the Red Hat Cluster Suite and Red Hat GFS products by using Red

Hat Network to subscribe to and access the channels containing the Red Hat Cluster

Suite and Red Hat GFS packages. From the Red Hat Network channel, you can manage

entitlements for your cluster nodes and upgrade packages for each node within the Red

Hat Network Web-based interface. For more information on using Red Hat Network, visit

the following URL:

http://rhn.redhat.com

You can install Red Hat Cluster Suite and Red Hat GFS RPMs using either of the following

methods:

• Automatic RPM installation — Using up2date

• Custom RPM installation — Selectively installing RPMs using the rpm utility

For automatic RPM installation, refer to Section B.1.1 Automatic RPM Installation. For

custom RPM installation, refer to Section B.1.2 Custom RPM Installation.

B.1.1. Automatic RPM Installation

Automatic RPM installation consists of running the up2date utility at each node for the

Red Hat Cluster Suite and Red Hat GFS products.

Note

If you are installing the GFS RPMs, you must run up2date for Red Hat Cluster Suite

before running it for Red Hat GFS.

To automatically install RPMs, do the following at each node:

1. Log on as the root user.