[Linux-ha-dev] [ANNOUNCE] (Free) Online Heartbeat Documentation from Novell

[David Lee]

On Fri, 8 Jun 2007, Andrew Beekhof wrote:

> A short note to publicize the new Heartbeat documentation that Novell
> has recently funded.
>
> The documentation was put together by a team of Novell technical
> writers with input from Lars and myself.
>
> It is freely available and a preview can be found at the following
> location:
>     http://www.novell.com/documentation/beta/sles10/heartbeat/data/
> heartbeat.html
>
> We have endeavored to make it applicable to a broad audience, not
> just SLES users.
> As with most documentation efforts, the intention is to expand it
> over time but hope people will find what is already there a useful
> reference.
> [...]
> Feedback and corrections welcome.

This looks most useful  Thanks to all.

Some feedback:

You say "applicable to a broad audience, not just SLES users".

When I get to section 2.6 "Installing Heartbeat", it starts talking about
"yast2", which I think is a SuSE-only thing, isn't it?  What it then goes
on to describe looks very attractive... configuring basic heartbeat,
including (I think) enough to get the later (Chapter 4) "hb_gui" working.

Is the functionality behind "yast2 heartbeat" available somehow to
non-SuSE users?  Is the heartbeat-specific knowledge/script/code behind
that command somewhere in the heartbeat source code?  (So that a non-SuSE
person can get from "make install" (or "rpm -i ..."  etc.) to being able
to invoke "hb_gui" easily?)


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