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4.5. Managing Nodes in a Heartbeat-based Cluster

4.5.1. Adding a New Heartbeat Node

To add a new node:
  1. Install heartbeat and pacemaker on the new host.
  2. Copy ha.cf and authkeys from an existing node.
  3. If you do not use autojoin any in ha.cf, run:
    hb_addnode $(uname -n)
  4. Start the cluster software on the new node.