Adding A Failover Domain - Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 5 - ADMINISTRATION Manual

Chapter 3. Configuring Red Hat Cluster With Conga
run the cluster service, you must set up only the members in the restricted failover domain that you
associate with the cluster service.
Note
To configure a preferred member, you can create an unrestricted failover domain
comprising only one cluster member. Doing that causes a cluster service to run on that
cluster member primarily (the preferred member), but allows the cluster service to fail over
to any of the other members.
The following sections describe adding a failover domain and modifying a failover domain:
Section 3.7.1, "Adding a Failover Domain"
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Section 3.7.2, "Modifying a Failover Domain"
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3.7.1. Adding a Failover Domain

To add a failover domain, follow the steps in this section. The starting point of the procedure is at the
cluster-specific page that you navigate to from Choose a cluster to administer displayed on the
cluster tab.
1. At the detailed menu for the cluster (below the clusters menu), click Failover Domains. Clicking
Failover Domains causes the display of failover domains with related services and the display of
menu items for failover domains: Add a Failover Domain and Configure a Failover Domain .
2. Click Add a Failover Domain. Clicking Add a Failover Domain causes the display of the Add a
Failover Domain page.
3. At the Add a Failover Domain page, specify a failover domain name at the Failover Domain
Name text box.
Note
The name should be descriptive enough to distinguish its purpose relative to other
names used in your cluster.
4. To enable setting failover priority of the members in the failover domain, click the Prioritized
checkbox. With Prioritized checked, you can set the priority value, Priority, for each node
selected as members of the failover domain.
5. To restrict failover to members in this failover domain, click the checkbox next to Restrict failover
to this domain's members. With Restrict failover to this domain's members checked,
services assigned to this failover domain fail over only to nodes in this failover domain.
6. To specify that a node does not fail back in this failover domain, click the checkbox next to Do not
fail back services in this domain. With Do not fail back services in this domain checked, if a
service fails over from a preferred node, the service does not fail back to the original node once it
has recovered.
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