Below are some links to the full syntax of all the Heartbeat[1] configuration files. But before reading all the gory details in those links, newbies will probably want to start by looking at the following pages:
Getting Started With Heartbeat[2] (short introduction to version 1)
Getting Started with Linux-HA (Heartbeat)[3] (detailed introduction to version 1)
Getting Started With Heartbeat Version 2[4] (detailed introduction to version 2[5])
Installing heartbeat[6] screencast (with audio)
Newbie educational screencasts[7] (with audio) ( IPaddr with GUI[8])
There are three files which one has to configure in order to configure Heartbeat[1]. They are:
/etc/ha.d/ha.cf[9] (general configuration)
/etc/ha.d/authkeys[10] (authentication info)
/etc/ha.d/haresources[11] (cluster resources[12] and resource groups[13]) - R1-style configurations only
There are heavily-annotated versions of each of these files in the documentation directory[14]. Copy these files to /etc/ha.d, and modify them to meet your needs. For R2 (CRM) style configurations, this is described in the Installing heartbeat[6] screencast
See the Basic Single IP address Configuration[15] page for a basic Heartbeat[16] configuration example.
Although you can configure the Release 2[5] software exactly like the Release 1 software, you won't get any of the new capabilities if you do. Most people will want some of the capabilities of release 2.
Configuring release 2 software to get these new release 2 capabilities is similar to that of release 1, except that the haresources[11] file has been replaced with a common XML[17]-based cluster[18]-wide configuration file, which is managed by the ClusterInformationBase[19] (CIB[20]) component. See the CIB User's Guide[21] for details.
information[22], Alternate Getting Started document for version 2[23], Heartbeat Tutorials[24], (graphical management tool for Linux-HA)[25]
| [1] | http://www.linux-ha.org/HeartbeatProgram |
| [2] | http://www.linux-ha.org/GettingStartedWithHeartbeat |
| [3] | http://www.linux-ha.org/GettingStarted |
| [4] | http://www.linux-ha.org/GettingStartedV2 |
| [5] | http://www.linux-ha.org/NewHeartbeatDesign |
| [6] | http://www.linux-ha.org/Education/Newbie/InstallHeartbeatScreencast |
| [7] | http://www.linux-ha.org/Education/Newbie |
| [8] | http://www.linux-ha.org/Education/Newbie/IPaddrScreencast |
| [9] | http://www.linux-ha.org/ha.cf |
| [10] | http://www.linux-ha.org/authkeys |
| [11] | http://www.linux-ha.org/haresources |
| [12] | http://www.linux-ha.org/resource |
| [13] | http://www.linux-ha.org/ResourceGroup |
| [14] | http://cvs.linux-ha.org/viewcvs/viewcvs.cgi/linux-ha/doc/ |
| [15] | http://www.linux-ha.org/GettingStarted/OneIPAddress |
| [16] | http://www.linux-ha.org/Heartbeat |
| [17] | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML |
| [18] | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_cluster |
| [19] | http://www.linux-ha.org/ClusterInformationBase |
| [20] | http://www.linux-ha.org/CIB |
| [21] | http://www.linux-ha.org/ClusterInformationBase/UserGuide |
| [22] | http://www.linux-ha.org/v2_Heartbeat_version_2 |
| [23] | http://www.linux-ha.org/GettingStartedRevisedV2 |
| [24] | http://www.linux-ha.org/HeartbeatTutorials |
| [25] | http://www.linux-ha.org/GuiGuide_Haclient |
This information provided courtesy of the Linux-HA project at http://linux-ha.org/