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CentOS High Availability

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CentOS High Availability

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (21 chapters)
CentOS High Availability
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Adding cluster resources and services


The difference between cluster resources and cluster services is that a cluster service is a service built from one or more cluster resources. A configured cluster resource is prepared to be used within a cluster service. When you are configuring a cluster service, you reference a configured cluster resource by its unique name.

Resources

Cluster resources are defined within the <rm> RGManager tag of the CMAN configuration file. They begin with the <resources> tag and end with the </resources> tag. Within the <resources> tag, all cluster resources supported by RGManager can be configured.

Cluster resources are configured with resource scripts, and all RGManager-supported resource scripts are located in the /usr/share/cluster directory along with the cluster resource metadata information required to configure a cluster resource. For some cluster resources, the metadata information is listed within the cluster resource scripts, while...