Preparations

Configure hostname resolution and use static host information by by editing the /etc/hosts file on each server in the cluster. For more information, refer to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Administration Guide, chapter Basic Networking , section Configuring Hostname and DNS , available at http://www.novell.com/documentation.

It is essential that members of the cluster are able to find each other by name. If the names are not available, internal cluster communication will fail.

Configure time synchronization by making cluster nodes synchronize to a time server outside the cluster . For more information, refer to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Administration Guide, chapter Time Synchronization with NTP , available at http://www.novell.com/documentation.

The cluster nodes will use the time server as their time synchronization source.