Create a cluster
We can use the Configuration Wizard to create the primary node in the cluster. The Create a Cluster option in the wizard refers to setting up the primary node.
Configuration Wizard
To access the Create a Cluster click Set Up a Cluster option on the home page of the Configuration Wizard.
The default selection for the create a cluster procedure are:
- dmgr on the same server
- Static cluster type
We can change the default selections.
Create a cluster
After we answer questions and provide information about the LDAP, the wizard generates a custom configuration procedure.
- Manual Step: Verify the portal node and deployment manager system clocks are within 5 minutes of each other.
- Condition
- dmgr is remote
- ConfigEngine task
- none
- Federate the node. This node then becomes a managed node in the dmgr cell.
- Condition
- none
- ConfigEngine task
- none
- Configure the dynamic cluster node. Add a nodegroup and add nodes to the nodegroup
- Condition
- Dynamic cluster
- ConfigEngine task
- cluster-node-config-post-federation
- Prepare the node for clustering.
- Condition
- none
- ConfigEngine task
- cluster-node-config-post-federation
- Complete the cluster setup.
- Condition
- none
- ConfigEngine task
- cluster-node-config-cluster-setup
ConfigEngine tasks
- cluster-node-config-post-federation
- cluster-node-config-cluster-setup