
Introduction
This document provides information about installing, configuring and managing Red Hat Cluster
components. Red Hat Cluster components are part of Red Hat Cluster Suite and allow you to
connect a group of computers (called nodes or members) to work together as a cluster. This
document does not include information about installing, configuring, and managing Linux Virtual
Server (LVS) software. Information about that is in a separate document.
The audience of this document should have advanced working knowledge of Red Hat Enter-
prise Linux and understand the concepts of clusters, storage, and server computing.
This document is organized as follows:
• Chapter 1, Red Hat Cluster Configuration and Management Overview
• Chapter 2, Configuring Red Hat Cluster With Conga
• Chapter 3, Managing Red Hat Cluster With Conga
• Chapter 4, Configuring Red Hat Cluster With system-config-cluster
• Chapter 5, Managing Red Hat Cluster With system-config-cluster
• Appendix A, Example of Setting Up Apache HTTP Server
• Appendix B, Fence Device Parameters
• Appendix C, Upgrading A Red Hat Cluster from RHEL 4 to RHEL 5
For more information about Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, refer to the following resources:
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Installation Guide — Provides information regarding installation of
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Deployment Guide — Provides information regarding the deploy-
ment, configuration and administration of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
For more information about Red Hat Cluster Suite for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, refer to the
following resources:
• Red Hat Cluster Suite Overview — Provides a high level overview of the Red Hat Cluster
Suite.
• LVM Administrator's Guide: Configuration and Administration — Provides a description of
the Logical Volume Manager (LVM), including information on running LVM in a clustered en-
vironment.
• Global File System: Configuration and Administration — Provides information about in-
stalling, configuring, and maintaining Red Hat GFS (Red Hat Global File System).
• Using GNBD with Global File System — Provides an overview on using Global Network
Block Device (GNBD) with Red Hat GFS.
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