Document Conventions - Red Hat CLUSTER SUITE - CONFIGURING AND MANAGING A CLUSTER 2006 Manual

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Chapter 2 Hardware Installation and Operating System Configuration
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Chapter 3 Installing and Configuring Red Hat Cluster Suite Software
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Part II Configuring a Linux Virtual Server Cluster describes how to achieve load balancing
in an Red Hat Enterprise Linux cluster by using the Linux Virtual Server.
Appendix A Supplementary Hardware Information contains detailed configuration infor-
mation on specific hardware devices and shared storage configurations.
Appendix B Selectively Installing Red Hat Cluster Suite Packages contains information
about custom installation of Red Hat Cluster Suite and Red Hat GFS RPMs.
Appendix C
Multipath-usage.txt
tains information from the
using
dm-multipath
3.
This guide assumes you have a thorough understanding of Red Hat Enterprise Linux sys-
tem administration concepts and tasks. For detailed information on Red Hat Enterprise
Linux system administration, refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux System Administra-
tion Guide. For reference information on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, refer to the Red Hat
Enterprise Linux Reference Guide.

2. Document Conventions

In this manual, certain words are represented in different fonts, typefaces, sizes, and
weights. This highlighting is systematic; different words are represented in the same style
to indicate their inclusion in a specific category. The types of words that are represented
this way include the following:
command
Linux commands (and other operating system commands, when used) are represented
this way. This style should indicate to you that you can type the word or phrase on
the command line and press [Enter] to invoke a command. Sometimes a command
contains words that would be displayed in a different style on their own (such as file
names). In these cases, they are considered to be part of the command, so the entire
phrase is displayed as a command. For example:
Use the
cat testfile
in the current working directory.
file name
File names, directory names, paths, and RPM package names are represented this
way. This style indicates that a particular file or directory exists with that name on
your system. Examples:
File for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 3 con-
Multipath-usage.txt
with Red Hat Cluster Suite for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Update
command to view the contents of a file, named
file. The file provides guidelines for
Introduction
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testfile