CB Response 6.5 Server / Cluster Management Guide

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Note: This document applies to all 6.5 versions.

The CB Response Server/Cluster Management Guide explains how to manage CB Response servers and clusters. It includes the following topics:

• Server Overview – Provides an overview of the CB Response server technology stack, daemons, configuration, and logs.
• Installing the CB Response Server – Explains how to install/initialize a new CB Response server, as well as how to upgrade, troubleshoot, and uninstall the server.
• Server Backup and Restoration – Explains how to perform various backup and restore procedures.
• Ports and Protocols – Provides a collection of tables that detail port and protocol information for several different server communications.
• Installing a CB Response Cluster – Introduces CB Response clusters and explains how to configure clusters, add minions to existing clusters, remove minion nodes from clusters, and upgrade cluster nodes.
• Using CBCLUSTER as a Non-Root User – Describes how to use the CBCLUSTER command as a non-root user.

See the Comments section for changes to this document since the previous version.

[triordan]

Change log for the September 2019 CB Response 6.5 Server / Cluster Management Guide (changes since the most recent 6.4 version):

1. In the "Server Backup and Restoration" chapter, the instructions for Configuration Backup on p. 42 were updated to indicate that firewall configuration for RHEL v7 uses firewalld.
2. Other minor corrections and improvements were made throughout the document.

[davidatisoc]

There is an incomplete sentence in the documentation.

It's on page 64 in the 'Removing Minions' section under the 'To mark minions as read-only' task for step 1 to stop the cluster.  

The command line is:

/usr/share/cb

It should be:

/usr/share/cb/cbcluster stop