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Chapter 2. The pcsd Web UI
This chapter provides an overview of configuring a Red Hat High Availability cluster with the
pcsd Web UI.
2.1. pcsd Web UI Setup
To set up your system to use the
pcsd Web UI to configure a cluster, use the following procedure.
- Install the Pacemaker configuration tools, as described in Section 1.2, “Installing Pacemaker configuration tools”.
- On each node that will be part of the cluster, use the
passwdcommand to set the password for userhacluster, using the same password on each node. - Start and enable the
pcsddaemon on each node:#
systemctl start pcsd.service#systemctl enable pcsd.service - On one node of the cluster, authenticate the nodes that will constitute the cluster with the following command. After executing this command, you will be prompted for a
Usernameand aPassword. Specifyhaclusteras theUsername.#
pcs cluster auth node1 node2 ... nodeN - On any system, open a browser to the following URL, specifying one of the nodes you have authorized (note that this uses the
httpsprotocol). This brings up thepcsdWeb UI login screen.https://nodename:2224
- Log in as user
hacluster. This brings up the Manage Clusters page as shown in Figure 2.1, “Manage Clusters page”.
Figure 2.1. Manage Clusters page

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