[Cluster-devel] Command Line Cluster Configuration Tools

[Fabio M. Di Nitto]

On Wed, 10 Sep 2008, Christine Caulfield wrote:

> Kevin Anderson wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Now that we are removing ccsd from the mix for cluster 3.x, what are we
>> doing about all of the command line cluster configuration capabilities
>> we had in ccs_tool?   What is the new command to add/delete nodes,
>> propagate configuration?  I would also like to have command line ways to
>> add resources to the configuration.  Basically, anything you can do with
>> vi and XML knowledge, we need a scriptable method of doing the same
>> operation.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>
> ccs_tool with it's addnode (etc) subcommands still exists. It writes
> directly to cluster.conf as it always did.
>
> Fabio had the good sense to #ifdef the ccsd update parts of that code so
> that they are only active when LEGACY_CODE is defined. So if you still
> have ccsd then 'ccs_tool addnode' will tell it to distribute the new
> version.
>
> I don't know anything about the new distribution system (I never did
> managed to get ricci compiled!) but we might need to add hooks for that
> into the ccs_tool editconf functions for compatibility.

Once the new system is in place and distributed we can readd propagation 
capabilities to ccs_tool and invoke whatever will be
"cman_tool reload-conf" feature.

Fabio

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