I am trying to setup up a Apache (fail-over) cluster however I receive the following errors while try to start.

I have the Cluster suite installed on RHEL5.1 Server, I am using the GUI tool, system-config-cluster to start the tool to add my information in.

I have two servers, all I want this Cluster suite to do is pick up if the other service dies (apache) on one of them.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get this going, I have configure the GUI tool and I get errors (Unable to connect to cluster infrastructure). And when I start the GUI tool, I get (because node is not part of cluster, the management tab is not available).

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

What error are you getting exactly? Copy and paste the output

The /etc/cluster/cluster.conf would be of great help.

Let me get a copy of it out of the file.


Thanks

[root@rh51test cluster]# cat cluster.conf
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<cluster config_version="2" name="apache1">
<fence_daemon post_fail_delay="0" post_join_delay="3"/>
<clusternodes/>
<cman/>
<fencedevices/>
<rm>
<failoverdomains/>
<resources>
<script file="/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd" name="Apache HTTP Server"/>
<fs device="/dev/hda6" force_fsck="0" force_unmount="0" fsid="6443" fstype="ext3" mountpoint="/var/www/html/" name="httpd-content" options="" self_fence="0"/>
<ip address="10.10.10.145" monitor_link="1"/>
</resources>
<service autostart="1" name="AP1">
<script ref="Apache HTTP Server"/>
<fs ref="httpd-content"/>
<ip ref="10.10.10.145"/>
</service>
</rm>
</cluster>
[root@rh51test cluster]#


This is my configuration on my first server, the second server has the ip address of 10.10.10.146 and I want it to be if the first server went down the second server would pick up. However when I set up the second server I get connection failed errors.

I figured it out, I configured the first server and scp'd the file to the second server.

I am able to unplug one of them now and it fails over, however I am having difficulty with the first server, got some kinks to work out. I totally redid my configuration and I got luci running so I can bring up https://servername:8084 in a browser and do configuration and restart services.

If anyone ever needs a hand on this let me know...

I would say, as long as don't have any nodes defined (see clusternodes tag) you will have no success getting up the cluster. Also a failoverdomain is missing for the failover.

And last but not least don't forget to configure fencing. You are using a local filesystem and risc inconstencies when not having it.

And I also doubt that the filesystem is shared isn't it (/dev/hda is ide and therefore not shared).