High Availability MySQL Cookbook

Starting a management node

In this recipe, we will start the management node installed in the previous recipe, and then use the management client to confirm that it has properly started.

How to do it…

The first step is to create the data directory for the management node that you defined in config.ini file as follows:

[root@node5 mysql-cluster]# mkdir -p /usr/local/mysql-cluster

Now, change the directory to it and run the management node process (ndb_mgmd), telling it which configuration file to use:

[root@node5 mysql-cluster]# cd /usr/local/mysql-cluster
[root@node5 mysql-cluster]# ndb_mgmd  --config-file=config.ini 
2009-06-28 22:14:01 [MgmSrvr] INFO     -- NDB Cluster Management Server. mysql-5.1.34 ndb-7.0.6
2009-06-28 22:14:01 [MgmSrvr] INFO -- ...