Management of source build?

Hi

I've built FDS 7.1 from the source on two machines.  I'd like to populate with
data and get the two synched together as a simple cluster using multi-master
replication.

Is this currently possible with the open-source version?  Can the management
console be used yet without the admin server?  Current documentation relies on
the java console, is there any documentation that shows how to do replication
and other management functions without the gui?

cheers
dom