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High Availability (Active/Passive) openUC implementation using existing iSCSI shared storage and CentOS clustering.

Caveats

It should be noted this is a highly complex topic. This method is not supported by eZuce. This information is for information purposes only.
This document does not cover all aspects of clustering and failover scenarios and is not intended to go through the exact IS installation steps.
It is advisable to keep the cluster nodes on their own subnet as each node broadcasts "heartbeats" to the other node to ensure it is still alive.

System requirements

Two high power servers (8 GB RAM minimum) with three NICs in each
Dedicated networks for each service
Fencing device on each server such as Dell DRAC or HP iLO. This is so if a cluster node is misbehaving it is immediately powered off instead of causing data corruption as well as to trigger proper failover.

Example Diagram

The following is a diagram of the clustering scenario we will be setting up:

Install OS

Install CentOS 5.6 on two identical servers. You may also configure the NICs at this point. One NIC will be for the iSCSI storage network (eth2), one will be for clustering heartbeat (eth1), and one NIC will be for all other communications, including sipXecs (eth0).
When setting the default gateway, it must be set on the main communication interface (eth0). This is done automatically in initial setup but can be changed to the detriment of the system post install. DO NOT set the default gateway on any interface other than the primary communication interface (eth0).
It is also advisable to set the hostname at this time. The hostname MUST be the same on both systems otherwise openUC will fail to function if switched to another node.
When prompted for software selection, deselect desktop - Gnome and select Clustering and Storage Clustering. Perform the install.

Post Installation

After each system reboots you'll need to disable the firewall and turn of SELinux. This is done when the Setup Agent appears. Choose Firewall, then disable all security settings.
After you have disabled the security settings perform a system update on both systems:
yum update
After the update reboot both systems. Once you've rebooted, install the software package xauth to enable X11 forwarding (used later):
yum install xauth

Connect to Shared iSCSI disk

Each server needs to have iSCSI turned on to connect. Run the following commands to enable iSCSI:
chkconfig iscsi onservice iscsi start
On each server you need to connect to a blank (fresh) shared iSCSI disk. For example, if your iSCSI shared disk is located at IP address 172.16.5.10 you would run the following command on each server:
iscsiadm -m discovery -t sendtargets -p 172.16.5.10service iscsi restart
You will now see the addition of a drive to the server, usually /dev/sda or something similar.

Configure LVM to allow for filesystem clustering

Edit /etc/lvm/lvm.conf on each node and change the following line:
locking_type = 1
to
locking_type = 3
and run the following command for this change to take effect:
vgscan

Add Clustered Network Script

Create a file on both nodes called /usr/local/bin/clusnet and fill it will the following, modifying SIPX_IP='172.16.1.5' on line 15 to the be the IP address of the openUC system, as well as the Ethernet interfaces for your services:
#!/bin/bash
#

  1. #
  2. Simple script for cluster services to use for bare metal ethernet interface
    #
  3. chkconfig: 345 89 14
  4. description: Starts and stops the clustered service network interface
  5. processname: net
    #
  6. Source function library.
    . /etc/init.d/functions
    SIPX_IP='172.16.1.5'
    SIPX_INTERFACE=eth0
    CLUS_INTERFACE=eth2
    ISCSI_INTERFACE=eth1
    PROG_NAME=clusnet
    RETVAL=0
    DEFAULT_GW=`cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-$SIPX_INTERFACE | grep GATEWAY | sed 's/GATEWAY=//g'`
    SUBNET_MASK=`cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-$SIPX_INTERFACE | grep NETMASK | sed 's/NETMASK=//g'`
    INTUP=`/sbin/ifconfig | grep -c $SIPX_INTERFACE`;
  7. <define any local shell functions used by the code that follows>
    start() {
    echo -n "Starting $SIPX_INTERFACE: "
    ip address flush dev eth0
    sleep 3
    ip address add $SIPX_IP/$SUBNET_MASK brd + dev eth0
    ip route add default via $DEFAULT_GW dev $SIPX_INTERFACE
    echo
    echo -n $"$SIPX_INTERFACE is up.";
    success $"$SIPX_INTERFACE is up.";
    echo
    chkconfig postgresql off
    return $RETVAL
    }

    stop() {
    echo -n "Shutting down $SIPX_INTERFACE: "
    ifdown $SIPX_INTERFACE
    ifup $SIPX_INTERFACE
    ifup $ISCSI_INTERFACE
    ifup $CLUS_INTERFACE
    echo
    echo -n $"Interface $SIPX_INTERFACE is down.";
    success $"Interface $SIPX_INTERFACE is down.";
    echo
    chkconfig postgresql off
    return $RETVAL
    }
    getstatus() {
    if [ $INTUP -lt 1 ]
    then
    echo
    echo -n $"Interface $SIPX_INTERFACE is down."
    failure $"Interface $SIPX_INTERFACE is down."
    echo
    return 1;
    fi
    echo
    echo -n $"Interface $SIPX_INTERFACE is up.";
    success $"Interface $SIPX_INTERFACE is up.";
    echo
    return $RETVAL
    }
    case "$1" in
    start)
    start
    ;;
    stop)
    stop
    ;;
    status)
    getstatus
    ;;
    restart)
    stop
    sleep 5
    start
    ;;
    *)
    echo "Usage: $PROG_NAME {start|stop|status|restart}"
    exit 1
    ;;
    esac
    exit $RETVAL
    You'll also need to make the script executable by running chmod +x /usr/local/bin/clusnet
    This script replaces your primary communication network's IP address with that of the openUC servers IP address. This is so there will not be any IP address conflict within openUC services. Configure Clustering
    Initial cluster configuration is done with the utility system-configure-cluster which, if you're running a headless (text only) install, will require the use of X forwarding via PuTTY and Xming. Download Xming from http://sourceforge.net/projects/xming/files/Xming/6.9.0.31/Xming-6-9-0-31-setup.exe/download and install it, then start it. In PuTTY, enable the option Enable X11 Forwarding under Connection >> SSH >> X11. You may then connect to the primary node server and run the following command:
    system-config-cluster
    This will open the CentOS cluster configuration system:

    Click on Create New Configuration to begin configuring the cluster.
    Enter the name of the cluster you wish to create. For this example we will create a cluster called uc_cluster:

    For a simple two node cluster it is not necessary to use a quorum disk. Click OK.

    Add Nodes

    We now need to add all of our cluster information into the cluster configuration manager the first thing we need to do is add our cluster nodes. To do this click on Cluster Nodes and click Add a Cluster Node. Be sure to use IP addresses and not DNS host names :

    Click OK then add the second node in the same fashion.

    Add Fencing Device

    In the system requirements section of this document it was noted that you would need some sort of manual fencing device to enable the cluster to power down a troublesome node. To add a fencing device, click on Fence Devices then click on Add a Fencing Device. You will now need to select the type of fencing device you have installed:

    Once you have selected your fencing device you will need to enter a descriptive name, IP address, username, and password to connect to the device.
    Add one fencing device into the cluster manager for each iLO/DRAC you have (for two servers, you'd have two fencing devices).
    Fencing, however, is beyond the scope of this document. For demonstration purposes we will use manual fencing.

    Add Fencing Device to Cluster Nodes

    Each cluster node needs to have its own fencing device assigned to itself so that the cluster manager knows how to power down the device. To add a fencing device to a cluster node, click on Cluster Nodes, click on the cluster node you wish to modify, then click Manage Fencing For This Node. You will now see the following:

    Click on Add a New Fence Level then click on the fence level that was just created, Fence-Level-1 then click Add a New Fence to this Level, then select the fence device associated with that server. Click OK to return to the cluster node fence configuration:

    Click Close to return to the cluster configuration system. Repeat the cluster node fence configuration for the other node in this cluster.

    Add Resources

    All items utilized by the cluster nodes are known as resources. In our case, our resources are:
  • Network device startup script
  • IP Address
  • PostgreSQL script
  • Phonelogd script
  • sipXecs script

When using a script in a clustering environment in must be an init style script, accepting stop, start, restart, and status as arguments.
To add an IP address click Create a Resource then in the resource type selection drop down box select IP Address. Enter the IP address that openUC will be using along with the subnet mask, then click OK.
To add a PostgreSQL script click Create a Resource then in the resource type selection drop down box select Script. Enter the following information:

  • Name: PGSQL-8
  • File (with path): /etc/init.d/postgresql

Now you'll need to add a script for network device startup, phonelogd and sipxecs. To add a script click Create a Resource then in the resource type selection drop down box select Script. For sipxecs, enter the following information:

  • Name: sipXecs
  • File (with path): /etc/init.d/sipxecs

For phonelogd, enter the following information

  • Name: Phonelogd
  • File (with path): /etc/init.d/phonelogd

For the network device startup script enter the following information

  • Name: clusnet
  • File (with path): /usr/local/bin/clusnet


Add Cluster Service

Once you've created all the necessary resources you must now assign them to a cluster service.
To add a service, click on Services then click Add a Service. Enter a descriptive name for the service, such as sipXpbx, then click OK. The service configuration windows will now appear:

You'll notice there are two options regarding resources: Create a new resource for this service and Add a Shared Resource to this service. Since we already created the resources we do not need to create them again, so click Add a Shared Resource to this service which will prompt you to select an existing resource:

You first need to select the IP Address that you created earlier and click OK. This will be the top resource in this service, meaning this resource will start before all other resources start.
Once you've added the the IP address you will need to add the network device startup script (clusnet) by clicking Add Shared resource to this service. Select the clusnet resource created earlier then click OK. Select the clusnet resource you just added then click Attach a Shared Resource to the selection, then select the PGSQL-8 resource you created earlier and click OK. Now add Phonelogd and sipXecs the same way as subordinates of the PostgreSQL resource. You resource hierarchy should look similar to this:

For now we don't want this service to automatically start when the cluster service starts so we need to disable automatic startup for this service. To do this uncheck the Autostart This Service checkbox, then click Close

Save cluster configuration

To save the cluster configuration, click on File then click on Save and save the configuration to /etc/cluster/cluster.conf

Propagate the Cluster Configuration

For the initial propagation of the cluster configuration to the second cluster node you will need to manually copy /etc/cluster/cluster.conf from the primary node to the secondary node. This can be done with SCP or by copying and pasting the contents of the file.

Start Clustering Service

To start the clustering service and all of the necessary dependencies, run the following commands on both nodes:
service cman startservice rgmanager startservice clvmd startservice gfs start vgscan chkconfig cman on chkconfig clvmd on chkconfig rgmanager on chkconfig gfs on
To verify that the cluster service is up and running, run the clustat command. You should see output similar to the following:
Cluster Status for uc_cluster @ Fri Jul 1 00:56:23 2011Member Status: Quorate
Member Name ID Status------ ---- ---- ------172.16.1.6 1 Online, Local, rgmanager172.16.1.8 2 Online, rgmanager
Service Name Owner (Last) State ------- ---- ----- ------ ----- service:sipXpbx (172.16.1.6) disabled

Create Clustered Storage

As of this writing the best filesystem to use for cluster storage is GFS. This is because unlike most other filesystems, GFS is safe to mount on both nodes at the same time without risking data corruption. This allows for quick failover with less risk of data corruption.

Create LVM

GFS requires LVM to operate properly, so we will need to create a LVM physical volume (PV), volume group (VG), and logical volumes (LV). This only needs to be done on one node of the cluster, preferably the primary node.
Enter the following commands to create the PV and the VG (assuming /dev/sda for the shared disk)
pvcreate /dev/sda vgcreate sipx-vol /dev/sda
Now let's create some logical volumes. There will need to be 5 total logical volumes as there are 5 distinct area that need to be shared for proper openUC operation:

  • /etc/sipxpbx
  • /var/sipxdata
  • /opt/openfire
  • /opt/freeswitch
  • /var/lib/pgsql

We'll start off with a logical volume called etc_sipxpbx:
lvcreate -L5G -netc_sipxpbx sipx-vol
This creates a 5 GB logical volume with the name etc_sipxpbx in the volume group sipx-vol.
Now we need to create the rest of these volumes. Bear in mind that the PostgreSQL database (/var/lib/pgsql) and the openUC data store (/var/sipxdata) will need the most space.
Run the following commands, changing the space values per your needs:
lvcreate -L5G -nopenfire sipx-vol lvcreate -L5G -nfreeswitch sipx-vol lvcreate -L30G -nsipxdata sipx-vol lvcreate -L30G -npgsql sipx-vol

Create GFS file systems

Run the following command to create a GFS partition on the etc_sipxpbx volume (this only needs to be done on one node of the cluster, preferably the primary node):
gfs_mkfs -p lock_dlm -t uc_cluster:etc_sipxpbx -j 2 /dev/sipx-vol/etc_sipxpbx
Here is an explanation of the arguments:

  • -p lock_dlm
    • This defines the locking method.
  • -t uc_cluster:etc_sipxpbx
    • This defines the lock table to be used. The first part is the cluster that will be utilizing it (uc_cluster) and the second part can be anything but it is easiest to use the LV name.
  • -j 2
    • This defines the number of journals to use. The number of journals is directly coordinated to the number of nodes in your cluster.
  • /dev/sipx-vol/etc_sipxpbx
    • This is the LVM device we wish to create the filesystem on

Create the filesystem on each LV:
gfs_mkfs -p lock_dlm -t uc_cluster:freeswitch -j 2 /dev/sipx-vol/freeswitch gfs_mkfs -p lock_dlm -t uc_cluster:openfire -j 2 /dev/sipx-vol/openfire gfs_mkfs -p lock_dlm -t uc_cluster:pgsql -j 2 /dev/sipx-vol/pgsql gfs_mkfs -p lock_dlm -t uc_cluster:sipxdata -j 2 /dev/sipx-vol/sipxdata

Mount Filesystems in Appropriate Locations

First we need to create the directories where these filesystems will be located. Run the following commands on both nodes:
mkdir /opt/freeswitch mkdir /opt/openfire mkdir /var/sipxdata mkdir /etc/sipxpbx mkdir /var/lib/pgsql
Edit /etc/fstab and add the following lines to the end of the file:
/dev/sipx-vol/freeswitch/opt/freeswitch gfs defaults 0 0/dev/sipx-vol/openfire /opt/openfire gfs defaults 0 0/dev/sipx-vol/sipxdata /var/sipxdata gfs defaults 0 0/dev/sipx-vol/etc_sipxpbx/etc/sipxpbx gfs defaults 0 0/dev/sipx-vol/pgsql /var/lib/pgsql gfs defaults 0 0
Now mount all of the partitions on both servers:
mount /etc/sipxpbxmount /opt/freeswitchmount /opt/openfiremount /var/sipxdatamount /var/lib/pgsql

Install openUC Packages

Now that we have all the shared storage mounted we can install and set up openUC. First we need to install the repository. Edit /etc/yum.repos.d/sipxecs.repo on both nodes and add the following information:
Now, on the first node only, install the necessary packages to support openUC:
yum install openuc caching-nameserver bind ntp
After the first installation has completely finished, perform the same installation on the second node.
NOTE: In the unlikely event that your postgres and sipxchange UID and GID do not match up on the two nodes, you will need to change /etc/passwd and /etc/group on the first node to match the values present on the second node. This is because the installation is performed last on the second node and filesystem permissions are set to the UID of the user on the second node.

Run openUC setup

On the primary node, enable the sipXecs NIC buy running the following command:
/usr/local/bin/clusnet start
Now modify /etc/hosts on both nodes to have the correct information. This includes setting the local hostname to the cluster IP address:

  1. Do not remove the following line, or various programs# that require network functionality will fail.127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost172.16.1.5 openuc.sip.corp.ezuce.com openuc
    Run the following command on the primary node:
    sipxecs-setup
    Enter all the necessary information and then when prompted, select Exit to prompt.
    Disable sipXecs services from starting at bootup:
    chkconfig sipxecs off chkconfig postgresql off chkconfig phonelogd off
    Now we need to generate the default postgres configuration. On the primary server start postgresql:
    service postgresql start
    And now stop it (the cluster will manage this service):
    service postgresql stop
    You'll also need to change the IP address of your primary node's communication interface (eth0) to an IP address that's different than the openUC system's IP address (but on the same subnet). This is so openUC can function on both nodes. DNS Caching Nameserver Configuration
    Because running sipxecs-setup-system would have broken many things we'll have to perform a few steps involving DNS manually.
    The first thing we need to do on both nodes is remove the file /etc/named. caching-nameserver.conf and add our own /etc/named.conf with the following contents:
    // WARNING: Name server configuration is a sipX automatically generated file. //Contents may be overwritten unless you change the mode to "Manual". //Available modes: //"Master" - Master name server (on primary server). //"Slave" - Slave named server (on distributed server). //"Caching" - Caching only name server. //"Manual" - Blocks future automatic updates. // DNS_MODE="Caching" //
    options { directory "/var/named"; dump-file "/var/named/data/cache_dump.db"; statistics-file "/var/named/data/named_stats.txt";
    forwarders { 192.168.5.20; 192.168.5.22; }; forward only; };
    Changing the forwarders section to match your DNS servers.
    Restart the caching DNS server and enable it during startup:
    service named restart chkconfig named on
    Modify /etc/resolv.conf to use the local caching DNS server first, changing the other values as needed:
    search sip.corp.ezuce.com nameserver 127.0.0.1 nameserver 192.168.5.20 nameserver 192.168.5.22
    Reboot both nodes simultaneously for all configuration changes to take effect.

    Starting openUC Cluster Service

    To start openUC you'll need to start system-config-cluster then click on the Cluster Management tab at the top of the window. Here you'll see the active nodes and services:

    To start the sipXpbx service, click on the service and then click the Enable button. This will start all the necessary services.
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