mirror_corosync/INSTALL

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The Corosync Cluster Engine Installation Guide
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Please read LICENSE for a description of the licensing of this software.

All cryptographic software in this package is subject to the following legal
notice:
This package includes publicly available encryption source code which,
together with object code resulting from the compiling of publicly
available source code, may be exported from the United States under License
Exception TSU prsuant to 15 C.F.R Section 740.13(e).

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* Building from subversion *
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When building and installing from subversion, automake 2.61 or later is
required.  Prior versions will result in build failures.

Step 1: check out a read only copy of the repository
svn checkout http://svn.fedoraprojects.org/svn/corosync

Find the version you want to build.  Usually this will be the "trunk" version
located in the trunk directory.  If you want to build a specific released
version check in the tags directory.

Step 2: Generate the makefiles
balance:~/corosync/trunk% ./autogen.sh

Step 3: Run the configure script
balance:~/corosync/trunk% ./configure

Step 4: Install the binaries
balance:~/corosync/trunk% su
balance:~/corosync/trunk# make install

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* Building from tarball *
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The tarball is distributed with pregenerated makefiles.  There is no need
to run the autogen.sh script in this case.

Step 1: Run the configure script
balance:~/corosync/trunk% ./configure

Step 2: Install the binaries
balance:~/corosync/trunk% su
balance:~/corosync/trunk# make install

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* Configuring Corosync *
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The corosync executive will automatically determine cluster membership by
communicating on a specified multicast address and port.

The directory conf contains the file corosync.conf.example

# Please read the corosync.conf.5 manual page
totem {
	version: 2
	secauth: off
	threads: 0
	interface {
		ringnumber: 0
		bindnetaddr: 192.168.1.1
		mcastaddr: 226.94.1.1
		mcastport: 5405
	}
}

logging {
	fileline: off
	to_stderr: yes
	to_file: yes
	to_syslog: yes
	logfile: /tmp/corosync.log
	debug: off
	timestamp: on
}

The totem section contains three values.  All three values must be set
or the corosync executive wll exit with an error.

bindnetaddr specifies the address which the corosync Executive should bind to.
This address should always end in zero.  If the local interface taffic
should routed over is 192.168.5.92, set bindnetaddr to 192.168.5.0.

mcastaddr is a multicast address.  The default should work but you may have
a different network configuration.  Avoid 224.x.x.x because this is a "config"
multicast address.

mcastport specifies the UDP port number.  It is possible to use the same
multicast address on a network with the corosync services configured for
different UDP ports.

The timeout section contains seven values.  This section is not normally used,
but rather used to override the program defaults for the purposes of fine
tuning for a given networking/processor combination or for debugging purposes.
Be careful to use the same timeout values on each of the nodes in the cluster
or unpredictable results may occur.

Do not use DOS style termination.  This breaks the parser.

Configure Host
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For security reasons, corosync only allows a process that had the EGID/GID
of "ais" to connect to it.  To make development easier, it is recommended to
create an "ais" user with the "ais" group.

[root@balance root]# adduser ais -g ais

Set the ais user's password:

[root@balance root]# passwd ais
Changing password for user ais.
New password:
Retype new password:
passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully.

Generate a private key
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corosync uses cryptographic techniques to ensure authenticity and privacy of
messages.  A private key must be generated and shared by all processors for
correct operation.

First generate the key on one of the nodes:

unix# exec/keygen
Corosync Authentication key generator.
Gathering 1024 bits for key from /dev/random.
Writing corosync key to /etc/ais/authkey.

After this is complete, a private key will be in the file /etc/ais/authkey.
This private key must be copied to every processor that will be a member of
the cluster.  If the private key isn't the same for every node, those nodes
with nonmatching private keys will not be able to join the same configuration.

Copy the key to some transportable storage or use ssh to transmit the key
from node to node.  Then install the key with the command:

unix# install -D --group=0 --owner=0 --mode=0400 /path_to_authkey/authkey /etc/ais/authkey

If the message invalid digest appears, the keys are not the same on each node.

Run the corosync executive
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Get one or more nodes and run the corosync executive on each node.  A list of
node IPs should be logged when the nodes join a configuration.  Run the
corosync daemon after following the previous directions.  The daemon must be
run as UID 0(root).

please read SECURITY to understand the threat model assumed by corosync
and the techniques corosync use to overcome these threats.

Before running any of the test programs
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The corosync executive will ensure security by only allowing the ais group (or
uid root) to connect to the service.  Switch to the ais group before
running any applications linked to the ais apis, or the applications will
not be authenticated and won't be able to access services.

[sdake@balance sdake]$ su ais
Password:
[ais@balance sdake]$ id
uid=501(ais) gid=502(ais) groups=502(ais)

Try out the corosync cpg functionality
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After corosync is running

su to ais user

Run test/testcpg on multiple nodes or on the same node.  Messages can be typed
which will then be sent to other testcpg applications in the cluster.