Chapter 2. Setting Up Your Administration Server

Using sudo, mount the image:

sudo mount -o loop <path_to_iso>/rhceph-1.2.3-centos-6-x86_64.iso /mnt

Using sudo, install the setup script.

sudo yum install /mnt/ice_setup-*.rpm

Create a working directory for your Ceph cluster configuration files and keys. Then, navigate to that directory. For example:

mkdir ~/ceph-config
cd ~/ceph-config

Using sudo, run the setup script in the working directory. NOTE: You cannot run the setup script in /mnt or a read-only directory or the script will crash. The script will output a cephdeploy.conf file, which ceph-deploy will use to point to the local repository.

sudo ice_setup -d /mnt

The setup script performs the following operations:

Using sudo, initialize the Calamari monitoring and administration server.

sudo calamari-ctl initialize