Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 5 - ADMINISTRATION Manual page 5

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 Enterprise 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
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Chapter 2, Before Configuring a Red Hat Cluster
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Chapter 3, Configuring Red Hat Cluster With Conga
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Chapter 4, Managing Red Hat Cluster With Conga
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Chapter 5, Configuring Red Hat Cluster With system-config-cluster
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Chapter 6, Managing Red Hat Cluster With system-config-cluster
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Appendix A, Example of Setting Up Apache HTTP Server
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Appendix B, Fence Device Parameters
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Appendix C, HA Resource Parameters
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Appendix D, HA Resource Behavior
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Appendix E, Upgrading A Red Hat Cluster from RHEL 4 to RHEL 5
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Appendix F, Revision History
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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 deployment,
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.
• Logical Volume Manager Administration — Provides a description of the Logical Volume Manager
(LVM), including information on running LVM in a clustered environment.
• Global File System: Configuration and Administration — Provides information about installing,
configuring, and maintaining Red Hat GFS (Red Hat Global File System).
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