SLES 12

Install

Pacemaker ships as part of the SUSE High Availability Extension. To install, follow the provided documentation. It is also available in openSUSE Leap and openSUSE Tumbleweed.

Create the Cluster

The supported stack on SLES12 is based on Corosync 2.x.

To get started, install the cluster stack on all nodes.

[ALL] # zypper install ha-cluster-bootstrap

First we initialize the cluster on the first machine (node1):

[ONE] # ha-cluster-init

Now we can join the cluster from the second machine (node2):

[ONE] # ha-cluster-join -c node1

These two steps create and start a basic cluster together with the HAWK web interface. If given additional arguments, ha-cluster-init can also configure STONITH, OCFS2 and an administration IP address as part of initial configuration. It is also possible to choose whether to use multicast or unicast for corosync communication.

For more details on ha-cluster-init, see the output of ha-cluster-init --help.

Set Cluster Options

For demonstration purposes, we will force the cluster to move services after a single failure:

[ONE] # crm configure property migration-threshold=1

Add a Resource

Lets add a cluster service, we'll choose one doesn't require any configuration and works everywhere to make things easy. Here's the command:

[ONE] # crm configure primitive my_first_svc Dummy op monitor interval=120s

"my_first_svc" is the name the service will be known as.

"Dummy" tells Pacemaker which script to use (Dummy - an agent that's useful as a template and for guides like this one), which namespace it is in (pacemaker) and what standard it conforms to (OCF).

"op monitor interval=120s" tells Pacemaker to check the health of this service every 2 minutes by calling the agent's monitor action.

You should now be able to see the service running using:

[ONE] # crm status

Simulate a Service Failure

We can simulate an error by telling the service stop directly (without telling the cluster):

[ONE] # crm_resource --resource my_first_svc --force-stop

If you now run crm_mon in interactive mode (the default), you should see (within the monitor interval - 2 minutes) the cluster notice that my_first_svc failed and move it to another node.

You can also watch the transition from the HAWK dashboard, by going to https://node1:7630.

Next Steps