4.1. Configuration Tasks

4.1. 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 4.2, “Starting the Cluster Configuration Tool”.

  2. Naming the cluster. Refer to Section 4.3, “Naming The Cluster”.

  3. Creating fence devices. Refer to Section 4.4, “Configuring Fence Devices”.

  4. Creating cluster members. Refer to Section 4.5, “Adding and Deleting Members”.

  5. Creating failover domains. Refer to Section 4.6, “Configuring a Failover Domain”.

  6. Creating resources. Refer to Section 4.7, “Adding Cluster Resources”.

  7. Creating cluster services.

    Refer to Section 4.8, “Adding a Cluster Service to the Cluster”.

  8. Propagating the configuration file to the other nodes in the cluster.

    Refer to Section 4.9, “Propagating The Configuration File: New Cluster”.

  9. Starting the cluster software. Refer to Section 4.10, “Starting the Cluster Software”.


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