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

[Andrew Beekhof]

On 6/14/07, David Lee <t.d.lee at durham.ac.uk> wrote:
> 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?

yes.

there will of course be some mention of SLES - one has to be realistic

but in most cases the SLES specific information is in addition to the
generally applicable content.

in some cases, like installing the package, non-SLES users are on
there own.  i dont see this as overly unreasonable given the number of
variations possible.

> 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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