Visualizing Heartbeat (HA) managed resource dependencies

This tip explains how to visualize HA managed resources and their dependencies with a graph.

Problem:

I have 2 HASI clusters managing XEN virtual machines as resources and as part of my documentation I wanted to visualize the various resources and their dependencies.

Tools:

heartbeat-2.1.3-0.9
heartbeat-cmpi-2.1.3-0.9
heartbeat-ldirectord-2.1.3-0.9
heartbeat-pils-2.1.3-0.9
heartbeat-stonith-2.1.3-0.9
sles-heartbeat_en-10.1-0.20
yast2-heartbeat-2.13.13-0.3

These are available from standard SLES10 SP2 installation sources.

graphviz-2.6-22.2 is available from SLE10SP2 SDK (Software Development Kit) media or installation source.

Solution:

Heartbeat package includes a tool named “ptest” which is used for testing for instance modified crm (V2) configurations without actually loading them into the cluster.

geeko:~ # rpm -qf /usr/sbin/ptest
heartbeat-2.1.3-0.9

Get a full config of your V2 cluster without “lrm” lines:

geeko:~ # cibadmin -Q | grep -v lrm > `hostname`.xml

By removing the lrm_resources tags (grep -v lrm), the tool thinks that nothing is running and shows what it would do to start everything from scratch.

Translate the saved xml file to DOT formatted transition graph:

geeko:~ # ptest -D `hostname`.dot  -X `hostname`.xml

Draw a directed graph:

geeko:~ # dot -Tjpg -o `hostname`.jpg `hostname`.dot

There are other utilities available drawing different type of graphs (neato, twopi, circo, fdp), you can get some idea about what they do from the man pages.

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