How to configure a High Availability Cluster (Heartbeat) On Linux?

Guys,

You can refer the following steps :

Number of nodes : Two (node1 and node2)
Clustering software : Heart Beat
Service to be high available : http
IP : 192.168.1.1 to be configured on node1
192.168.1.2 to be configured on node2
192.168.1.3 for Heart Beat clustering enabled services(http etc)


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1. setup the above two IP on the server and make it sure that uname -n returns node1 or node2
2. yum install heartbeat
make sure that you installed :

heartbeat
heartbeat-pils
heartbeat-stonith

3. configure heartbeat on two node cluster. We will deal with three files. These are:

authkeys
ha.cf
haresources

Now moving to our configuration. But there is one more thing to do, that is to copy these files to the /etc/ha.d directory. In our case we copy these files as given below:

cp /usr/share/doc/heartbeat-2.1.2/authkeys /etc/ha.d/
cp /usr/share/doc/heartbeat-2.1.2/ha.cf /etc/ha.d/
cp /usr/share/doc/heartbeat-2.1.2/haresources /etc/ha.d/

4. Now let's start configuring heartbeat. First we will deal with the authkeys file, we will use authentication method 2 (sha1). For this we will make changes in the authkeys file as below.

vi /etc/ha.d/authkeys

Then add the following lines:

auth 2
2 sha1 test-ha

Change the permission of the authkeys file:

chmod 600 /etc/ha.d/authkeys

5. Moving to our second file (ha.cf) which is the most important. So edit the ha.cf file with vi:

vi /etc/ha.d/ha.cf

Add the following lines in the ha.cf file:

logfile /var/log/ha-log
logfacility local0
keepalive 2
deadtime 30
initdead 120
bcast eth0
udpport 694
auto_failback on
node node1
node node2

Note: node1 and node2 are the output generated by

uname -n

6. The final piece of work in our configuration is to edit the haresources file. This file contains the information about resources which we want to highly enable. In our case we want the webserver (httpd) highly available:

On node 1 :-

vi /etc/ha.d/haresources
Add the following line:
node1 192.168.1.3 httpd

On node 2 :-

vi /etc/ha.d/haresources
Add the following line:
node2 192.168.1.3 httpd

7. Copy the /etc/ha.d/ directory from node1 to node2 :

scp -r /etc/ha.d/ root@node2:/etc/

8. As we want httpd highly enabled let's start configuring httpd :

vi /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

Add this line in httpd.conf:

Listen 192.168.1.3:80

9. Copy the /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file to node2:

scp /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf root@node2:/etc/httpd/conf/

10. Create the file index.html on both nodes (node1 & node2):

On node1:

echo "node1 apache test server" > /var/www/html/index.html

On node2:

echo "node2 apache test server" > /var/www/html/index.html

11. Now start heartbeat on the primary node1 and slave node2:

/etc/init.d/heartbeat start

12. Open web-browser and type in the URL:

http://192.168.1.3

It will show node1 apache test server.

13. Now stop the hearbeat daemon on node1:

/etc/init.d/heartbeat stop

In your browser type in the URL http://192.168.1.3 and press enter.

It will show node2 apache test server.

14. We don't need to create a virtual network interface and assign an IP address (192.168.1.3) to it. Heartbeat will do this for you, and start the service (httpd) itself. So don't worry about this.

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PS : Made it available.

Try :)