Installing Gluster Management Gateway Backend Package
Gluster Management Gateway communicates with every node of your cluster using the backend package. This package must be installed on each and every node of your cluster using the Linux package published by Gluster.
Pre-requisite
- Your backend machines can be either Gluster Storage Software Appliance, Gluster Virtual Storage Appliance, or CentOS 5.6 running GlusterFS v3.2.3 or higher.
To install the backend packages on each and every node of your cluster, perform the following steps:
- Download Gluster Management Gateway repository configuration file (glustermg.repo) and the Gluster Management Gateway Backend RPM (glustermg-backend-1.0.0-1.x86_64.rpm) from the location provided by Gluster. :
Note: glustermg.repo has been created and tested with CentOS 5.6. It may work with other versions of CentOS, however it has not been extensively tested.
- Save the file in the following location on your machine:
/etc/yum.repos.d/
- Run the following command to install the glustermg-backend dependencies:
rpm -ivh glustermg-backend-1.0.0-1.x86_64.rpm
- The following backend packages are installed if not installed earlier:
- chkconfig
- python v2.4.3
- perl v5.8.8
- rrdtool-perl v1.2.27
- appliance-base v1.3
- sudo
- crontabs
- samba3
- libxml2 v2.6
Note:
- You must enable port 24729 (UDP) for auto discovery of servers.
- In case CIFS only, the Samba services must be configured to run on port 445 which needs to be enabled and open on all the storage servers in your cluster.
- Paravirtual VMs on Xen are not supported.