Installation guide

Chapter 4. Configuring Red Hat
Cluster With system-config-cluster
This chapter describes how to configure Red Hat Cluster software using system-config-cluster,
and consists of the following sections:
• Section 1, “Configuration Tasks”
• Section 2, “Starting the Cluster Configuration Tool”
• Section 3, “Naming The Cluster”
• Section 4, “Configuring Fence Devices”
• Section 5, “Adding and Deleting Members”
• Section 6, “Configuring a Failover Domain”
• Section 7, “Adding Cluster Resources”
• Section 8, “Adding a Cluster Service to the Cluster”
• Section 9, “Propagating The Configuration File: New Cluster”
• Section 10, “Starting the Cluster Software”
1. Configuration Tasks
Configuring Red Hat Cluster software with system-config-cluster consists of the following
steps:
1. Starting the Cluster Configuration Tool, system-config-cluster. Refer to Section 2,
“Starting the Cluster Configuration Tool”.
2. Naming the cluster. Refer to Section 3, “Naming The Cluster”.
3. Creating fence devices. Refer to Section 4, “Configuring Fence Devices”.
4. Creating cluster members. Refer to Section 5, “Adding and Deleting Members”.
5. Creating failover domains. Refer to Section 6, “Configuring a Failover Domain”.
6. Creating resources. Refer to Section 7, “Adding Cluster Resources”.
7. Creating cluster services.
Refer to Section 8, “Adding a Cluster Service to the Cluster”.
8. Propagating the configuration file to the other nodes in the cluster.
Refer to Section 9, “Propagating The Configuration File: New Cluster”.
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