Adjusted Section 3.4, “Automatic Cluster Setup (ha-cluster-bootstrap)” due to the renaming of the bootstrap scripts sleha-init, sleha-join, and sleha-remove to ha-cluster-init, ha-cluster-join, and ha-cluster-remove, respectively. Also the location of the log file has changed from /var/log/sleha-bootstrap.log to /var/log/ha-cluster-bootstrap.log (http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853772).

Replaced any occurrence of chkconfig and rc* commands with systemd equivalents (http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853533).

Introduced a consistent naming scheme for cluster names, node names, cluster resources, and constraints and applied it to the documentation. See Appendix B, Naming Conventions. (Fate#314938).

Removed Pacemaker GUI and any references pointing to it (Fate#312948, https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853508).

Replaced OpenAIS with Corosync (https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853507, https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853556).

Removed all occurrences of the following parameters as they are obsolete: default-resource-stickiness, is-managed-default, and default-action-timeout.

Improved the consistency of crm shell examples.

Adjusted changed package names throughout the whole manual (Fate#314807).

Removed list of resource agents from the appendix.

Moved documentation for GEO Clustering for SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension into a separate document (Fate#316121). See the new GEO Clustering for SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension Quick Start, available from http://www.suse.com/documentation/.

Removed Example of Setting Up a Simple Testing Resource from the appendix as this can be done now by the Hawk wizard.

Changed terminology for master-slave resources, which are now called multi-state resources in the upstream documentation.

Updated the screenshots.

Mentioned both hb_report and crm_report as command line tools for creating detailed cluster reports.

Numerous small fixes and additions to the manual based on technical feedback.

Changed terminology from multi-site clusters to geographically dispersed (or GEO) clusters for consistency reasons.

Added section about availability of SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension and GEO Clustering for SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension as add-on products: Section 1.1, “Availability as Add-On/Extension”.

Restructured contents.

Mentioned how to create a cluster report when using a non-standard SSH port (Fate#314906). See SSH.

Updated Section 3.5, “Manual Cluster Setup (YaST)” to reflect the software changes to the YaST Cluster Module.

Csync2 also accepts a combination of hostname and IP address for each cluster node. See Section 3.5.4, “Transferring the Configuration to All Nodes” (Fate#314956).

Section 3.6, “Mass Deployment with AutoYaST” mentions the option to clone DRBD settings via AutoYaST (Fate#315128).

Procedure 3.2, “Automatically Setting Up the First Node” mentions -t option for ha-cluster-init to perform additional cluster configurations based on templates ). (https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=821123)

Section 4.1.3, “Option stonith-enabled” mentions policy change in DLM services when the global cluster option stonith-enabled is set to false (Fate#315195).

Section 4.4.7, “Grouping Resources by Using Tags” describes a new option to group conceptually related resources, without creating any colocation or ordering relationship between them (Fate#315101).

Section 4.4.1.1, “Resource Sets” explains the concept of resource sets as an alternative format for defining constraints. As of SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension 12, resource sets can now also be used within location constraints (whereas they could formerly only be used within colocation and ordering constraints).

Restructured Section 4.7, “Maintenance Mode” to also cover the option of setting a whole cluster to maintenance mode ( https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=829864).

Added attributes for pacemaker_remote service to Table 4.1, “Options for a Primitive Resource” and added new section: Section 4.5, “Managing Services on Remote Hosts” (https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853535).

Added new resource agent classes to Section 4.2.2, “Supported Resource Agent Classes”: systemd, service, and nagios (https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853520).

Updated Section 4.5.1, “Monitoring Services on Remote Hosts with Monitoring Plug-ins” to reflect the package name changes from nagios-plugins and nagios-plugins-metadata to monitoring-plugins and monitoring-plugins-metadata, respectively (Fate#317780).

Updated Section 5.1.2, “Main Screen: Cluster Status” to reflect additional information that is now presented there (Fate#316303, Fate#316303, https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=883529).

Updated the chapter to reflected the new features that have been described in Chapter 4, Configuration and Administration Basics.

Procedure 5.28, “Using the History Explorer Offline” describes a new Hawk function to view and analyze the transitions of clusters that you are currently not connected to (Fate#313354).

Used example of setting up an NFS server to demonstrate use of Hawk Cluster Setup Wizard (Fate#315163). See Procedure 5.4, “Using the Setup Wizard”.

The description of all Hawk functions that are related to GEO clusters has been moved to a separate document. See the new GEO Clustering for SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension Quick Start, available from http://www.suse.com/documentation/.

Added the section: Section 6.4.4.3, “Collocating Sets for Resources Without Dependency” (Fate#314917).

Added a section about the health status (Fate#316464): Section 6.5.7, “Getting Health Status”.

Added a section about tagging resources (Fate#315101): Section 6.5.5, “Grouping/Tagging Resources”.

Updated overview section about tab completion and getting help (https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=853643).

Restructured chapter.

Added Section 9.4, “Configuring ACLs with Hawk”.

Added configuration of HAProxy.

New chapter.

Reworked Section 15.2, “Installing DRBD Services”

Inserted prompts in shell sessions

Replaced all rcdrbd commands with systemctl

Describe mirrored in a clustered environment (Fate#314367): Section 16.2.1, “Configuring Cmirrord”.

Added configuration of a sg_persist resource (FATE#312345)

Added section about watchdog (https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=892344)

Added short notice about watchdog and other software that access the watchdog timer (https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=891340)

Added hint about watchdog driver loaded at boot time (https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=892344)

Added hints about stonith-timeout (https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=891346)

Adjusted Section 17.1.3.3, “Starting the SBD Daemon” (https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=891499)

Enhanced section about the relationship between different timeouts (https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=891346)

Documented separate Samba and Winbind resources (Fate#316336): Procedure 18.1, “Setting Up a Basic Clustered Samba Server”.

Updated example screen of /etc/rear/local.conf (https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=885881).

Fixed minor problems (https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=878054).

Removed any occurrence of rear-SUSE and configuration file /etc/rear/site.conf.

New appendix explaining naming scheme.

Added definition of terms: Section D.1, “Terminology”.

Added Section D.2.1, “Upgrading from SLE HA 11 SP3 to SLE HA 12” to Section D.2, “Upgrading your Cluster to the Latest Product Version”.

Added a new section: Section D.3, “Updating Software Packages on Cluster Nodes”.

Completely extended chapter.

Updated example for booth configuration file. (https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=863419.