Hi,

I'm new to HA with Linux and looking for a possibility to build a HA 
cluster with apache, mysql 
and a central file storage. I want to use heartbeat-2 to monitor the 
nodes and services, for sure nothing new and many people have done this 
before, but somehow I have difficulties to get started. I'm still not 
sure if heartbeat is all I need to get such a cluster up and running, 
there is so many other software around which seems also to fit our needs 
(pacemaker, openais, etc.). So the first question would be if I can do 
what I want with heartbeat-2?

I have 2 identical Debian etch servers with heartbeat-2 installed on 
every machine and first want to configure nodes, the ressources and the 
constrains. Because of the new XML format used in heartbeat-2 another 
difficulty comes up :(. Because I'm blind and the GUI to configure 
nodes, ressources and constrains is not accessible for me :(. Editing 
the cib.xml file manualy is not recommended, but what other 
possibilities do I have to create a working configuration?

Now I have the following questions?

- Is heartbeat-2 the software I'm looking for, can I build a HA cluster 
  with apache, mysql and a central file storage with heartbeat-2 only?
- Is there a step to step howto somewhere out that describes all 
  necesary steps that are needed to build such a cluster? I found many 
  howtos but either they described a setup with heartbeat-1 or the 
  graphical frontend was used to create the configuration.
- Is there another way to build the configuration of nodes, ressources 
  and constrains without using the GUI? I saw cibadmin for example but 
  with this tool I have to know the XML structure of the cib.xml file 
  very detailed it seems. Also I read something about a webinterface 
  that can be used but also I was not able to get more detailed 
  information :(.

Sorry for the newby questions but for a beginner the whole thing is a 
little confusing, especialy if it is not possible to go the normal way 
to configure a HA cluster with heartbeat-2.

Thanks for anny help or tip that can help me to get started!


Cheers,

  Christian


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Christian Schöpplein

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