Installation guide

Chapter 5. 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 5.1, “ Configuration Tasks”
Section 5.2, “ Starting the Clu st er Co n f ig u rat io n T o o l”
Section 5.3, “ Configuring Cluster Properties”
Section 5.4, “ Configuring Fence Devices”
Section 5.5, “ Adding and Deleting Members”
Section 5.6, “ Configuring a Failover Domain”
Section 5.7, “ Adding Cluster Resources”
Section 5.8, “ Adding a Cluster Service to the Cluster”
Section 5.9, “ Propagating The Configuration File: New Cluster”
Section 5.10, “ Starting the Cluster Software”
Note
While system-config-cluster provides several convenient tools for configuring and
managing a Red Hat Cluster, the newer, more comprehensive tool, Co n g a, provides more
convenience and flexibility than system-config-cluster. You may want to consider using
Co n g a instead (refer to Chapter 3, Configuring Red Hat Cluster With Conga and Chapter 4,
Managing Red Hat Cluster With Conga).
5.1. Configurat ion T asks
Configuring Red Hat Cluster software with system-config-cluster consists of the following
steps:
1. Starting the Clu st er Co n f ig u rat io n T o o l, system-config-cluster. Refer to
Section 5.2, “ Starting the Clu st er Co n f ig u rat io n T o o l” .
2. Configuring cluster properties. Refer to Section 5.3, “ Configuring Cluster Properties”.
3. Creating fence devices. Refer to Section 5.4, “ Configuring Fence Devices” .
4. Creating cluster members. Refer to Section 5.5, “ Adding and Deleting Members” .
5. Creating failover domains. Refer to Section 5.6, “ Configuring a Failover Domain” .
6. Creating resources. Refer to Section 5.7, “ Adding Cluster Resources” .
7. Creating cluster services.
Refer to Section 5.8, “ Adding a Cluster Service to the Cluster”.
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