On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 4:22 PM, Dejan Muhamedagic <deja...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 08:42:06AM -0400, Eliot Gable wrote: >> http://clusterlabs.org/wiki/Documentation >> >> >> First, read this (probably ten times or so, since it won???t make complete >> sense and you will miss various details the first couple of times): >> >> http://clusterlabs.org/mediawiki/images/f/fb/Configuration_Explained.pdf >> >> Then, if you want to use the CLI, read this: >> >> http://clusterlabs.org/mediawiki/images/8/8d/Crm_cli.pdf >> >> Or check out any other links on that main documentation site. >> >> I strongly recommend you start out learning with the XML CIB >> and then, if you want, move to the CLI. Everything makes much >> more sense if you understand the XML stuff. > > I'll disagree here. The crm shell is there to let the vast > majority of people start working with Pacemaker without having to > read XML. And then also enable most of them never to think about > XML. crm should be able to represent all cluster configurations > without the XML scaffolding (and you won't miss much, it is > horrible anyway).
oi! :-) its much better than it was in 0.6 > In short, what would one gain by reading XML > instead of the stripped crm representation? > Without question the crm shell is the best tool for changing the configuration. I still find the stripped representation harder to read though - I seem to have trouble finding and focusing on the bits i'm interested in at the time. But I've been starring at the full form for over 5 years now, so that may not be surprising :-) _______________________________________________ Pacemaker mailing list Pacemaker@oss.clusterlabs.org http://oss.clusterlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/pacemaker