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Chapter 1. Read-Me-First

Table of Contents

1.1. The Scope of this Document
1.2. What Is Pacemaker?
1.3. Cluster Architecture
1.4. Pacemaker Architecture
1.5. Node Redundancy Designs

1.1. The Scope of this Document

This document is intended to be an exhaustive reference for configuring Pacemaker.
To achieve this, it focuses on the XML syntax used to configure the CIB. For those that are allergic to XML, multiple higher-level front-ends (both command-line and GUI) are available. These tools will not be covered at all in this document [3].
Users may be interested in other parts of the Pacemaker documentation set, such as Clusters from Scratch, a step-by-step guide to setting up an example cluster, and Pacemaker Administration, a guide to maintaining a cluster.


[3] I hope, however, that the concepts explained here make the functionality of these tools more easily understood.