Primary Server

On your Primary server, perform the following actions:

  1. Install both the “mysql” and “mysql-server” rpm packages if they do not exist on your system.

Apply any required dependencies as well

 # yum install mysql mysql-server

  1. Verify that your Shared iSCSI LUN is still mounted at /var/lib/mysql via the “df” command
  1. If this is a fresh MySQL install, initialize a sample MySQL database:

 # /usr/bin/mysql_install_db —datadir=”/var/lib/mysql” —user=mysql

  1. Ensure that all files in your MySQL data directory (/var/lib/mysql) have correct permissions and ownership

 # chown –R mysql:mysql /var/lib/mysql

 # chmod 755 /var/lib/mysql

  1. Finally, manually start the MySQL daemon from the command line. Note: Do Not start it via the “service” command, or the /etc/init.d/ scripts

 # mysqld_safe —user=root —socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock —port=3306 — datadir=/var/lib/mysql —log &

  1. Verify MySQL is running by connecting with the mysql client:

[root@LinuxPrimary mysql]# mysql

Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.

Your MySQL connection id is 2

Server version: 5.0.77-log Source distribution

Type ‘help;’ or ‘\h’ for help. Type ‘\c’ to clear the buffer.

mysql> exit

Bye

[root@LinuxPrimary mysql]#

  1. Update the root password for your mysql configuration. In this example we set the MySQL root password to “SteelEye”

 # echo “update user set Password=PASSWORD where User=‘root’; flush

privileges” | mysql mysql

  1. Verify your new password:

 # mysql mysql –u root –p

(Enter “SteelEye” as the password)

 #exit

  1. Create a MySQL configuration file. We will place this in the same shared directory (/var/lib/mysql/my.cnf)

 # vi /var/lib/mysql/my.cnf

Example
 # cat /var/lib/mysql/my.cnf
[mysqld]
datadir=/var/lib/mysql
socket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
pid-file=/var/lib/mysql/mysqld.pid
user=root
port=3306
 # Default to using old password format for compatibility with mysql 3.x
 # clients (those using the mysqlclient10 compatibility package).
old_passwords=1
 # Disabling symbolic-links is recommended to prevent assorted security risks;
 # to do so, uncomment this line:
 # symbolic-links=0
[mysqld_safe]
log-error=/var/log/mysqld.log
pid-file=/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid
[client]
user=root
password=SteelEye

  1. Delete the original MySQL configuration file, located in /etc

 # rm /etc/my.cnf

Secondary Server

On your Secondary Server:

  1. Install both the “mysql” and “mysql-server” rpm packages if they do not exist on your system.

Apply any required dependencies as well

 # yum install mysql mysql-server

  1. Ensure that all files in your MySQL data directory (/var/lib/mysql) have correct permissions and ownership

 # chown –R mysql:mysql /var/lib/mysql

 # chmod 755 /var/lib/mysql

  1. There is no need to perform any of the additional steps taken on the Primary Server

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