FastX Cluster Installation
A variant of the FastX Gateway Configuration, the FastX server and the gateway server are the same machine. This is an ideal situation when you have a group of identical machines that are located on a LAN (with optional VPN access). Users and IT admins get all the benefits of the gateway configuration without the added hardware costs of the extra gateway machines.
Requirements
- All systems must meet the minimum requirements of a basic FastX Installation.
- The fastx service and web interface are required to enable cluster configuration.
- The Systems must have mounted (e.g nfs) $HOME directories
- Recommended: Systems installed in a shared location
Pre-installation Setup
Installation Instructions
- Install the FastX rpm as root according to the FastX Installation Instructions
- Log in to the FastX Browser Client as a FastX Admin User
- Click on the System Configuration Icon
- Click on Clustering
- Add a Secret Key
- Turn Accept Data from cluster members on
Turn Send data to cluster members on - Add the Urls of the other systems in the cluster
(Round Robin DNS is supported. ie The Url will broadcast to every IP address that the hostname resolves to) - Optionally, enable load balancing
- Save the configuration
On the other machines
- Install the FastX rpm as root according to the FastX Installation Instructions
- Copy /usr/lib/fastx2/config/network.json to each of the servers in the cluster
- Change the ownership to the fastx user
chown fastx.fastx /usr/lib/fastx2/config/*
- restart the service
service fastx restart
Advanced Configuration