[Pacemaker] Pacemaker in RHEL6.

[Marco van Putten]

On 08/12/2011 06:05 AM, Larry Brigman wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 8:51 PM, Larry Brigman <larry.brigman at gmail.com
> <mailto:larry.brigman at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 5:37 PM, Andrew Beekhof <andrew at beekhof.net
>     <mailto:andrew at beekhof.net>> wrote:
>
>         On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 1:13 AM, Larry Brigman
>         <larry.brigman at gmail.com <mailto:larry.brigman at gmail.com>> wrote:
>          > On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 10:50 PM, Marco van Putten
>          > <marco.vanputten at tudelft.nl
>         <mailto:marco.vanputten at tudelft.nl>> wrote:
>          >>
>          >> On 08/10/2011 06:23 PM, David Coulson wrote:
>          >>>
>          >>> On 8/10/11 11:43 AM, Marco van Putten wrote:
>          >>>>
>          >>>> Thanks Andreas. But our managers persist on using Redhat.
>          >>>
>          >>> I think the idea would be to take the HA packages
>         distributed with
>          >>> Scientific Linux 6.x and run them on RHEL.
>          >>
>          >>
>          >> OK Thanks for the heads up. I will give it a try with the
>         Scientific Linux
>          >> packages on RHEL.
>          >>
>          >>
>          >>>
>          >>> Note that even when you do subscribe to the HA add-on in RHEL6,
>          >>> pacemaker is not supported by RedHat. Are you sure you
>         can't buy the HA
>          >>> add-on to go with your base entitlement for RHEL?
>          >>
>          >>
>          >> No unfortunately Redhat's license model doesn't work that
>         way. In stead of
>          >> the 150$ academic license you have to buy the full licensed
>         version and then
>          >> some extra for the add-on.
>          >>
>          > If you have the install DVD then the packages are there, just
>         in a different
>          > repo on the disk.
>          > Directory is HighAvailability.
>          >  ls pacemaker-*
>          > pacemaker-1.1.2-7.el6.x86_64.rpm
>         pacemaker-libs-1.1.2-7.el6.i686.rpm
>          > pacemaker-libs-1.1.2-7.el6.x86_64.rpm
>
>         Is corosync and cluster-glue in there too?
>
>     Yes.
>     Packages]$ ls coro*
>     corosync-1.2.3-21.el6.x86_64.rpm   corosynclib-1.2.3-21.el6.x86_64.rpm
>     corosynclib-1.2.3-21.el6.i686.rpm
>       Packages]$ ls cluster*
>     cluster-cim-0.16.2-10.el6.x86_64.rpm
>     clusterlib-3.0.12-23.el6.i686.rpm
>     cluster-glue-1.0.5-2.el6.x86_64.rpm
>     clusterlib-3.0.12-23.el6.x86_64.rpm
>     cluster-glue-libs-1.0.5-2.el6.i686.rpm
>     cluster-snmp-0.16.2-10.el6.x86_64.rpm
>     cluster-glue-libs-1.0.5-2.el6.x86_64.rpm
>
>
> The source packages are also available.
> ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/6Server/en/os/SRPMS/
>
>


I also found the rpm's on our Redhat satellite server. But this doesn't 
make it much easier if you want to do a upgrade to a newer version.

I've tried the Scientific Linux way by adding it as a disabled repository.

And then installing pacemaker by:
# yum install --enablerepo=scientificlinux pacemaker

Yum then takes care of all the dependencies and (somehow) only uses the 
pacemaker/corosync/etc packages from scientific while the rest comes 
from Redhat. You still need the epel repository as well btw.

So The Scientific Linux option works best for our situation I think.

Thanks everyone for all the reply's,
Marco.