[Pacemaker] Installation woes (w/Debian packages)

[Andrew Beekhof]

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Raoul Bhatia [IPAX] <r.bhatia at ipax.at> wrote:
> On 10/15/2009 10:51 AM, Matthew Palmer wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 10:07:56AM +0200, Colin wrote:
>>> On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 9:13 PM, Andrew Beekhof <andrew at beekhof.net> wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Colin <colin.hch at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> The config explained document is excellent -- once everything is up
>>>>> and running to arrive at "its level".
>>>>
>>>> Agreed. ?I've started working on some howtos to fill the gap, but it
>>>> will take time :-)
>>>
>>> Another question regarding how to activate a pacemaker config: Is
>>> there any way to activate the config before the cluster starts up?
>>>
>>> (Scenario is that the installation of the cluster nodes is fully
>>> automatic. It seems a bit awkward how to configure pacemaker if I
>>> can't just write out a config file during install: I need to somehow
>>> make sure that on first system boot a script that activates my config
>>> is executed, but not too early because it takes a minute or so until
>>> cibadmin(1) and friends actually work...)
>>
>> I believe you can drop a cib.xml into place before the cluster first starts
>> and it'll pick up and run with that.
>
> and do not forget to remove or regenerate the
> /var/lib/heartbeat/crm/cib.xml.sig file.
>
> moreover, i would also remove all /var/lib/heartbeat/crm/cib-*.raw*
> files (i do not know for sure, what they do ;)

backups

> ). but to my experience,
> it is save to remove them if you want to init a cluster "from scratch".

definitely