Installation guide

Chapter 3. Configuring Red Hat Cluster With Conga
This chapter describes how to configure Red Hat Cluster software using C o n g a, and consists of the
following sections:
Section 3.1, “ Configuration Tasks”
Section 3.2, “ Starting lu ci 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. Configurat ion T asks
Configuring Red Hat Cluster software with Co n g a consists of the following steps:
1. Configuring and running the Co n g a configuration user interface — the lu ci server. Refer to
Section 3.2, “ Starting lu ci 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. St art ing luci and ricci
To administer Red Hat Clusters with C o n g a, install and run lu ci and ricci as follows:
1. At each node to be administered by Co n g a, install the ricci agent. For example:
# yum install ricci
2. At each node to be administered by Co n g a, start ricci. For example:
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