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I think it is time to create an operations/ops guide for GlusterFS.
Operating guide should address issues which administrators face
while running/maintaining GlusterFS storage nodes. Openstack project
has an operating guide [2] which try to address similar issues and
it is pretty cool.<br>
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IMO these are the typical/example questions which operating guide
should try to address. <br>
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<div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid333">
<ul class="list-bullet1">
<li><span class="i"><i>Maintenance, Failures, and Debugging</i></span></li>
</ul>
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<ul class="list-bullet2">
<li><span class="">What are steps for planned maintenance for
GlusterFS node?</span></li>
</ul>
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</blockquote>
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<div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid335">
<ul class="list-bullet2">
<li><span class="">Steps for replacing a failed node?</span></li>
</ul>
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</blockquote>
<blockquote>
<div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid336">
<ul class="list-bullet2">
<li><span class="">Steps to decommission a brick?</span></li>
</ul>
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</blockquote>
<div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid339">
<ul class="list-bullet1">
<li><i><span class="">Logging and Monitoring</span></i></li>
</ul>
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<div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid340">
<ul class="list-bullet2">
<li><span class="">Where are the log files?</span></li>
</ul>
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<div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid341">
<ul class="list-bullet2">
<li><span class="">How to find-out if self-heal is working
properly?</span></li>
</ul>
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<div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid342">
<ul class="list-bullet2">
<li><span class="">Which log files to monitor for detecting
failures?</span></li>
</ul>
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<div class="ace-line" id="magicdomid322"><br>
Operating guide needs good amount of work, hence we all need to
come together for this. You can contribute for this by either of
the following<br>
<ul>
<li> Let know others about the questions you want to get
answered in the operating guide. ( I have set-up a etherpad
for this [1]) <br>
</li>
<li>Answer the questions/issues raised by others.<br>
</li>
</ul>
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Comments, suggestions? <br>
Should this be part of gluster code base i.e. /doc or somewhere
else? <br>
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[1] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://titanpad.com/op-guide">http://titanpad.com/op-guide</a><br>
[2] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://docs.openstack.org/ops/oreilly-openstack-ops-guide.pdf">http://docs.openstack.org/ops/oreilly-openstack-ops-guide.pdf</a><br>
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Thanks,<br>
Lala<br>
#lalatenduM on freenode<br>
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