Chapter 2. Configuring Fence Devices in a Red Hat Cluster
This document provides configuration examples that show the steps needed to configure fence devices in a Red Hat cluster using the Conga configuration tool. For general information about fencing and fence device configuration, see Configuring and Managing a Red Hat Cluster.
This remainder of this document is organized as follows:
- Chapter 3, Configuring an APC Switch as a Fence Device describes the procedure for configuring an APC switch as a fence device in a Red Hat cluster.
- Chapter 4, Configuring IPMI Management Boards as Fencing Devices describes the procedure for configuring IPMI management boards as fence devices in a Red Hat cluster.
- Chapter 5, Configuring HP ILO Management Boards as Fencing Devices describes the procedure for configuring HP iLO management boards as fence devices in a Red Hat cluster.
- Chapter 6, Configuring Fencing with Dual Power Supplies describes the procedure for configuring two APC switches using separate power supplies to fence each cluster node in a Red Hat cluster.
- Chapter 7, Configuring a Backup Fencing Method describes the procedure for configuring two APC switches using separate power supplies as a main fencing method and a separate IPMI management board as a backup fencing method to fence each cluster node in a Red Hat cluster.
- Chapter 8, Configuring Fencing using SCSI Persistent Reservations describes the procedure for configuring fencing on a system using SCSI persistent reservations in a Red Hat cluster.
- Chapter 9, Troubleshooting provides some guidelines to follow when your configuration does not behave as expected.
- Chapter 10, The GFS Withdraw Function summarizes some general concerns to consider when configuring fence devices in a Red Hat cluster.
