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ShaoLin HA Cluster 1.0 Installation Manual and Operations Guide

Copyright © 2000-2003 by ShaoLin Microsystems Limited

2004-01-27

Revision History
Revision 0.12003-04-10Revised by: David Chow
Created document
Revision 0.22003-07-16Revised by: David Chow
Updated for version 1.0.2
Revision 0.32003-08-27Revised by: David Chow
Updated for version 1.0.3
Revision 0.42004-01-27Revised by: David Chow
Updated for version 1.0.4 and corrections to the document
Table of Contents
Preface
I. Introduction to ShaoLin HA Cluster
1. Introduction to ShaoLin HA Cluster
1.1. Terminology
1.2. Features
1.3. How it works?
1.4. Registration
II. Installation and configuration
2. Cluster Hardware Configurations and Installation
2.1. General hardware configuration
2.2. Configuring Storage
2.3. Network and Cluster Communications
2.4. Power supply configuration
3. System Requirement
3.1. Required software packages
3.2. System Disk Space Requirement
3.3. Linux kernel requirement
3.4. File systems requirements
4. Installation and Quick Setup
4.1. Installation Overview
4.2. ShaoLin HA Cluster software installation
5. Configuring the clusters with Cluster Configurator Webmin interface
5.1. Cluster Setup Wizard
5.2. Configure Global Options
5.3. Setup Heartbeat Channels
6. Controlling Application Availability
6.1. Defining a new AAC rule
6.2. Controlling Application Through Cluster Manager Console
7. Monitoring IP Addresses
7.1. Defining an IP address monitoring rule
7.2. Monitoring a referenced IP address
III. Cluster Operations and administration
8. Controlling ShaoLin HA Cluster Manager
8.1. Using Cluster Manager Console
8.2. Standby cluster console
8.3. Connect to the standby cluster from the active cluster
8.4. Connect to the active cluster
8.5. Control heartbeat channels
8.6. Control an application service
9. Tuning the clusters
9.1. Using journaling filesystems
9.2. Adjusting Heartbeat Settings
10. Cluster Administration
10.1. Making changes to cluster configurations
10.2. Installing new applications and services
10.3. Storage Management
10.4. Adding hardware peripherals
10.5. Upgrading the kernel
11. Event notification and logging
11.1. Logging
11.2. Email notification
11.3. SNMP
A. Supplementary Software Information
A.1. Global configuration file options
A.2. Ethernet heartbeat configuration information
A.3. Serial heartbeat configuration information
A.4. AAC configuration information
B. SNMP traps, events and error messages
B.1. Event Codes
B.2. Error Codes
Index
List of Tables
B-1. Events
B-2. Errors
List of Figures
1-1. Example ShaoLin HA Cluster setup
2-1. Single Initiator SCSI
2-2. Multi Initiator SCSI
2-3. Power Switch Connections
2-4. Dual UPS Configuration
4-1. Installation Process Overview
5-1. Cluster Configurator Main Page
5-2. Wizard: Global Configurations
5-3. Wizard: Heartbeat Configuration
5-4. Wizard: Password
5-5. Wizard: Boot Loader
5-6. Wizard: Finish
6-1. The AAC settings page
6-2. Defining a new AAC rule
7-1. IP Address Monitor Setup
7-2. Reference IP Address Monitoring setup
8-1. Cluster Manager Console
8-2. Cluster Manager at Webmin
8-3. Cluster Manager Console at standby cluster
8-4. Cluster Manager Console
8-5. Cluster Manager Console at active cluster
8-6. Controlling Heartbeat channels in runtime console
8-7. Cluster Manager Console with AAC
8-8. Controlling AAC in runtime with Cluster Manager Console
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