DRDB Management Console .. finally!!

  As many of you sysadmins that deal with Linux High Availability and clusters you will find that there has been a nice little utility to ease the burden on your DRDB management.  The DRDB Management Console doesn’t require any agents or additional code added to your nodes but administers everything over ssh as if you were going to do your work anyways.   The nice thing about this utility is that you can manage everything from a GUI window and it still shows you the act console commands that are being given.  Which can be a learning utility for your junior admin that you have sitting under you that you’d like to start managing the clusters or have an idea how things work and can step in on the pager rotation and hopefully get you out of it for a little bit.

Features

• Wizard driven installation/update of DRBD/Heartbeat on you cluster nodes
• Wizard driven creation of Heartbeat configuration file ha.cf
• Presents NICs and block devices
• Graphical representation of complete DRBD status
• Create new DRBD resources in the DRBD overview
• Actions on DRBD resources available as context menu in the DRBD status view
• Graphical representation of Heartbeat resources and their constraints
• Resource states and the node they run on included in the graph
• Context menus with actions on Heartbeat resources
• Text console view of all commands DRBD MC issues

Resources:

DRDB Homepage: http://www.drbd.org
DRDB Management Console Homepage:  http://www.drbd.org/mc/management-console/
DRDB Documentation:  http://www.drbd.org/docs/about/
Freshmeat Project RSS Feed: http://freshmeat.net/projects/drbd-management-console/releases.atom

Crashcourse DRDB Configuration by Howtoforge:  http://www.howtoforge.com/drbd-8.3-third-node-replication-with-debian-etch