How To Install resource-agents on Debian 9
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install resource-agents on Debian 9.
What is resource-agents
resource-agents is:
This package contains cluster resource agents (RAs) compliant with the Open Cluster Framework (OCF) specification, used to interface with various services in a High Availability environment managed by the Pacemaker resource manager.
Agents included: AoEtarget: Manages ATA-over-Ethernet (AoE) target exports AudibleAlarm: Emits audible beeps at a configurable interval CTDB: CTDB Resource Agent ClusterMon: Runs crm_mon in the background, recording the cluster status to… Delay: Waits for a defined timespan Dummy: Example stateless resource agent EvmsSCC: Manages EVMS Shared Cluster Containers (SCCs) (deprecated) Evmsd: Controls clustered EVMS volume management Filesystem: Manages filesystem mounts ICP: Manages an ICP Vortex clustered host drive IPaddr: Manages virtual IPv4 addresses (portable version) IPaddr2: Manages virtual IPv4 and IPv6 addresses (Linux specific version) IPsrcaddr: Manages the preferred source address for outgoing IP packets IPv6addr: Manages IPv6 aliases LVM: Controls the availability of an LVM Volume Group LinuxSCSI: Enables and disables SCSI devices through the MailTo: Notifies recipients by email in the event of resource takeover ManageRAID: Manages RAID devices ManageVE: Manages an OpenVZ Virtual Environment (VE) Pure-FTPd: Manages a Pure-FTPd FTP server instance Raid1: Manages Linux software RAID (MD) devices on shared storage Route: Manages network routes SAPDatabase: Manages a SAP database instance as an HA resource. SAPInstance: Manages a SAP instance as an HA resource. SendArp: Broadcasts unsolicited ARP announcements ServeRAID: Enables and disables shared ServeRAID merge groups SphinxSearchDaemon: Manages the Sphinx search daemon. Squid: Manages a Squid proxy server instance Stateful: Example stateful resource agent SysInfo: Records various node attributes in the CIB VIPArip: Manages a virtual IP address through RIP2 VirtualDomain: Manages virtual domains through the libvirt virtualization f… WAS: Manages a WebSphere Application Server instance WAS6: Manages a WebSphere Application Server 6 instance WinPopup: Sends an SMB notification message to selected hosts Xen: Manages Xen unprivileged domains (DomUs) Xinetd: Manages a service of Xinetd anything: Manages an arbitrary service apache: Manages an Apache Web server instance asterisk: Manages an Asterisk PBX awseip: awsvip: clvm: clvmd conntrackd: This resource agent manages conntrackd db2: Resource Agent that manages an IBM DB2 LUW databases in Standard role … dhcpd: Chrooted ISC DHCP server resource agent. dnsupdate: IP take-over via dynamic DNS update docker: Docker container resource agent. eDir88: Manages a Novell eDirectory directory server ethmonitor: Monitors network interfaces exportfs: fio: fio IO load generator galera: Manages a galara instance garbd: Manages a galera arbitrator instance iSCSILogicalUnit: Manages iSCSI Logical Units (LUs) iSCSITarget: iSCSI target export agent ids: Manages an Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) instance iface-bridge: iface-vlan: iscsi: Manages a local iSCSI initiator and its connections to iSCSI targets jboss: Manages a JBoss application server instance kamailio: Resource agent for Kamailio ldirectord: Wrapper OCF Resource Agent for ldirectord lxc: Manages LXC containers mysql: Manages a MySQL database instance mysql-proxy: Manages a MySQL Proxy instance nagios: Nagios resource agent named: Manages a named server nfsnotify: sm-notify reboot notifications nfsserver: Manages an NFS server nginx: Manages an Nginx web/proxy server instance oracle: Manages an Oracle Database instance oralsnr: Manages an Oracle TNS listener pgagent: Controls pgagent pgsql: Manages a PostgreSQL database instance pingd: Monitors connectivity to specific hosts or portblock: Block and unblocks access to TCP and UDP ports postfix: Manages a highly available Postfix mail server instance pound: Manage a Pound instance proftpd: OCF Resource Agent compliant FTP script. rabbitmq-cluster: rabbitmq clustered redis: Redis server rsyncd: Manages an rsync daemon rsyslog: rsyslog resource agent scsi2reservation: sfex: Manages exclusive access to shared storage using Shared Disk File EXc… sg_persist: Manages SCSI PERSISTENT RESERVATIONS slapd: Manages a Stand-alone LDAP Daemon (slapd) instance symlink: Manages a symbolic link syslog-ng: Syslog-ng resource agent tomcat: Manages a Tomcat servlet environment instance varnish: Manage a Varnish instance vmware: Manages VMWare Server 2.0 virtual machines vsftpd: Manages an vsftpd zabbixserver: Zabbix server resource agent
There are three methods to install resource-agents on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install resource-agents Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install resource-agents using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install resource-agents
Install resource-agents Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install resource-agents using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install resource-agents
Install resource-agents Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install resource-agents using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install resource-agents
How To Uninstall resource-agents on Debian 9
To uninstall only the resource-agents package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove resource-agents
Uninstall resource-agents And Its Dependencies
To uninstall resource-agents and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove resource-agents
Remove resource-agents Configurations and Data
To remove resource-agents configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge resource-agents
Remove resource-agents configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove resource-agents configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge resource-agents
Dependencies
resource-agents have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install resource-agents package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
