LightCloud manager can manage your Redis nodes, so you don't have to do it manually.

Getting the LightCloud manager

Simply check out the LightCloud manager in a directory:

$ svn co http://opensource.plurk.com/svn/opensource/redis_manager ~/redis_manager
$ cd  ~/redis_manager

Create a config file

Create a config file config.py. A sample config file is included ~/lightcloud_manager/config.sample.py:

from os import path

DATA_DIR = path.join(path.realpath(path.curdir), "data")

USE_MASTER = True
DEBUG = False

NODES = { 
    #Lookup nodes
    'lookup1_AM': { 'id': 2, 'host': '127.0.0.1:10000', 'master': None },
    'lookup1_AS': { 'id': 1, 'host': '127.0.0.1:11000', 'master': '127.0.0.1:10000' },

    #Storage nodes
    'storage1_BM': { 'id': 6, 'host': '127.0.0.1:12000', 'master': None },
    'storage1_AS': { 'id': 5, 'host': '127.0.0.1:13000', 'master': '127.0.0.1:12000' },
}

The options of the manager

$ python -m manager -c config.py
Script that is used to handle Redis nodes.

Starting nodes:
   python manager.py -c config.py all start
   python manager.py -c config.py lookup1 start

Stopping nodes:
   python manager.py -c config.py all stop
   python manager.py -c config.py lookup1 stop

Status:
   python manager.py -c config.py all status 
   python manager.py -c config.py lookup1 status

Misc:
   python manager.py -c config.py delete_data

View a sample config file in config.sample.py.

Starting the nodes:

$ python -m manager all start

Checking out status:

$ python manager.py all status
lookup1_AM (127.0.0.1:10000):
    node running - node items: 18311
storage1_BM (127.0.0.1:12000):
    node running - node items: 18311
lookup1_AS (127.0.0.1:11000):
    node running - node items: 18311
    master 127.0.0.1:10000 running - master items: 18311
storage1_AS (127.0.0.1:13000):
    node running - node items: 18311
    master 127.0.0.1:12000 running - master items: 18311

How to debug

If you run into problems, try to start a redis-server manually. python manager.py all start prints out the commands.