Installation guide

Chapter 3. Configuring Red Hat Cluster With Conga
This chapter describes how to configure Red Hat Cluster software using Conga, and consists of the
following sections:
Section 3.1, “Configuration T asks”
Section 3.2, “Starting luci and ricci”.
Section 3.3, “Creating A Cluster”
Section 3.4, “Global Cluster Properties”
Section 3.5, “Configuring Fence Devices”
Section 3.6, “Configuring Cluster Members”
Section 3.7, “Configuring a Failover Domain”
Section 3.8, “Adding Cluster Resources”
Section 3.9, “Adding a Cluster Service to the Cluster”
Section 3.10, “Configuring Cluster Storage”
3.1. Configuration Tasks
Configuring Red Hat Cluster software with Conga consists of the following steps:
1. Configuring and running the Conga configuration user interface — the luci server. Refer to
Section 3.2, “Starting luci and ricci”.
2. Creating a cluster. Refer to Section 3.3, “Creating A Cluster”.
3. Configuring global cluster properties. Refer to Section 3.4, “Global Cluster Properties”.
4. Configuring fence devices. Refer to Section 3.5, “Configuring Fence Devices”.
5. Configuring cluster members. Refer to Section 3.6, “Configuring Cluster Members”.
6. Creating failover domains. Refer to Section 3.7, “Configuring a Failover Domain”.
7. Creating resources. Refer to Section 3.8, “Adding Cluster Resources”.
8. Creating cluster services. Refer to Section 3.9, “Adding a Cluster Service to the Cluster”.
9. Configuring storage. Refer to Section 3.10, “Configuring Cluster Storage”.
3.2. Starting luci and ricci
To administer Red Hat Clusters with Conga, install and run luci and ricci as follows:
1. At each node to be administered by Conga, install the ricci agent. For example:
# up2date -i ricci
2. At each node to be administered by Conga, start ricci. For example:
# service ricci start
Starting ricci: [ OK ]
3. Select a computer to host luci and install the luci software on that computer. For example:
# up2date -i luci
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