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Chapter 3. The pcs Command Line Interface

The pcs command line interface controls and configures corosync and Pacemaker by providing an interface to the corosync.conf and cib.xml files.
The general format of the pcs command is as follows.
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pcs [-f file] [-h] [commands]...

3.1. The pcs Commands

The pcs commands are as follows.
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