[Pacemaker] Installation woes (w/Debian packages)

[Colin]

On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Andrew Beekhof <andrew at beekhof.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Raoul Bhatia [IPAX] <r.bhatia at ipax.at> wrote:
>> On 10/16/2009 09:59 AM, Matthew Palmer wrote:
>>> If this were a single-machine service, I'd completely agree with you.
>>> Unfortunately, a cluster service like pacemaker needs to have absolutely
>>> consistent configuration across all the nodes in the cluster, and having it
>>> read off a file on disk would make that *amazingly* difficult and dangerous.
>>> I remember the fun and games I had dealing with cman (or whatever it was
>>> that went with that) and it's "read an XML config file and update everyone"
>>> model.  I'll take "crm configure edit" over that any day, TYVM.
>>
>> to my knowledge, if no cib.xml file exists, pacemaker creates an empty
>> one with epoch="0" (or similar, to my experience at least < 100 ;) )
>>
>> i've done the following steps numerous times:
>> 1. stop pacemaker on all nodes
>> 2. erase all cib.xml related files
>> 3. drop a new cib.xml into the correct directory on one node
>> 4. set the correct permissions
>> 5. startup all nodes
>> 6. witness the new configuration unfold
>
> Yep, if you must take this approach, then the above steps are correct :-)
>
> Though these days, its probably easier to skip steps 3 and 4 and load
> the config using the crm shell.

Is it correct, that the remote-{clear|tls}-port attributes are only
honoured at startup, i.e. I need to restart corosync (or shoot down
the cib process) in order to get the port to be opened?

That would mean a stop-start cycle of the cluster on every node if I
don't start dropping XML-files into place (which I have avoided so
far)...

Thanks, Colin