Chapter 5. Monitoring the Cluster Health

In Chapter 2, Installing Cluster Services and Configuring Network Components, we mentioned that becoming familiar with PCS and its myriad options would be helpful along the path that might lead us to the installation of a full operational high availability cluster. Although during the previous chapters we confirmed how true that statement was, here we will make further use of PCS to monitor the performance and availability of our cluster in order to identify and prevent possible bottlenecks and troubleshoot any issue that may arise.

Cluster services and performance

Although every system administrator must be well acquainted with the widely used Linux commands, such as top and ps, to quickly report a snapshot ...

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