5.8. Adding a Cluster Service to the Cluster
To add a cluster service to the cluster, follow these steps:
- At the left frame, click.
- At the bottom of the right frame (labeled Add a Service dialog box to be displayed.), click the button. Clicking causes the
- At the Add a Service dialog box, type the name of the service in the text box and click . Clicking causes the Service Management dialog box to be displayed (refer to Figure 5.12, “Adding a Cluster Service”).
Note
Use a descriptive name that clearly distinguishes the service from other services in the cluster.Figure 5.12. Adding a Cluster Service
- If you want to restrict the members on which this cluster service is able to run, choose a failover domain from the Section 5.6, “Configuring a Failover Domain” for instructions on how to configure a failover domain.)drop-down box. (Refer to
- not checked, the service must be started manually any time the cluster comes up from stopped state.checkbox — This is checked by default. If is checked, the service is started automatically when a cluster is started and running. If is
- no other services running on them. For example, for a very busy web server that is clustered for high availability, it would would be advisable to keep that service on a node alone with no other services competing for his resources — that is, checked. On the other hand, services that consume few resources (like NFS and Samba), can run together on the same node without little concern over contention for resources. For those types of services you can leave the unchecked.checkbox — This sets a policy wherein the service only runs on nodes that have
Note
Circumstances that require enablingare rare. Enabling can render a service offline if the node it is running on fails and no other nodes are empty. - Select a recovery policy to specify how the resource manager should recover from a service failure. At the upper right of the Service Management dialog box, there are three options available:
- Click the Section 5.7, “Adding Cluster Resources”.button and choose the a resource listed that you have configured in
Note
If you are adding a Samba-service resource, connect a Samba-service resource directly to the service, not to a resource within a service. That is, at the Service Management dialog box, use either or ; do not use or . - If needed, you may also create a private resource that you can create that becomes a subordinate resource by clicking on the Section 5.7, “Adding Cluster Resources”. The private resource will appear as a child to the shared resource to which you associated with the shared resource. Click the triangle icon next to the shared resource to display any private resources associated.button. The process is the same as creating a shared resource described in
- When finished, click.
- Choose=> to save the changes to the cluster configuration.
Note
To verify the existence of the IP service resource used in a cluster service, you must use the
/sbin/ip addr list
command on a cluster node. The following output shows the /sbin/ip addr list
command executed on a node running a cluster service:
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo inet6 ::1/128 scope host valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever 2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1356 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 1000 link/ether 00:05:5d:9a:d8:91 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff inet 10.11.4.31/22 brd 10.11.7.255 scope global eth0 inet6 fe80::205:5dff:fe9a:d891/64 scope link inet 10.11.4.240/22 scope global secondary eth0 valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever