[Gluster-devel] [Gluster-users] [RFC] GlusterFS Operations Guide

[Vijay Bellur]

On 05/30/2014 04:50 PM, Lalatendu Mohanty wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> IMO these are the typical/example questions which operating guide should
> try to address.
>
>   * /Maintenance, Failures, and Debugging/
>
>       * What are steps for planned maintenance for GlusterFS node?
>
>       * Steps for replacing a failed node?
>
>       * Steps to decommission a brick?
>
>   * /Logging and Monitoring/
>
>       * Where are the log files?
>
>       * How to find-out if self-heal is working properly?
>
>       * Which log files to monitor for detecting failures?
>
>
> 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
>
>   *   Let know others about the questions you want to get answered in
>     the operating guide. ( I have set-up a etherpad for this [1])
>   * Answer the questions/issues raised by others.
>
>
> Comments, suggestions?
> Should this be part of gluster code base i.e. /doc or somewhere else?
>

+1 to this idea.

We can possibly add this as part of the gluster-docs project in forge. 
We can even create a project for this on gerrit for better review of 
incoming content and mirror it on forge.

-Vijay