8. Distribute Cluster Configuration

Step 1: Ensure that ricci is running on the current node and on all other nodes of the cluster.

service ricci status

This command should return the status message similar to the one shown in the following example:

ricci (pid  9524) is running...

Step 2: Distribute the configuration to other nodes in the cluster.

Execute the following command from the node that contains the cluster.conf file.

For RHEL v5.x:

ccs_tool update /etc/cluster/cluster.conf

For RHEL v6.x:

ccs -i -h host --sync --activate

Step 3: Validate the updated configuration files.

SSH into another node in the cluster and execute the following command:
```
cat /etc/cluster/cluster.conf
    
```

This command should display the updated contents for the cluster.conf file.