Hello Neil, Thanks for recording the project outline with the OGB. I'll contact you offline to get you set up.
Eric On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Neil Garthwaite wrote: > Dear OpenSolaris Governing Board members: > > Please see our HA-Clusters community proposal for a Informix Dynamic > Server cluster agent (HA-Informix) for Open High Availability Cluster > (OHAC) as per 2.2 of > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/ogb/policies/project-instantiation.txt > > Your support in the instantiation of this project is greatly appreciated. > > Regards > Neil > > 1) Purpose > > The purpose of this project is to provide a failover agent for IBM > Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) as part of the open-source code base for > Solaris Cluster, namely Open High Availability Cluster (OHAC). The aim > of this project is to focus on IDS 11, code-named "Cheetah". > > 2) Sponsors > > The Community Group sponsoring this project is the HA-Clusters > community and voted with 3 +1 votes and 0 -1 vote. > > 3) Initial Project Team > > - Thorsten Frueauf > - Neil Garthwaite (Contact) > - Detlef Ulherr > > 4) Project Description > > IDS 11 currently provides several availability features namely: > > - High Availability Data Replication (HADR) > - Enterprise Replication (ER) > - Shared Disk Secondary server (SDS) > - Remote Standalone Secondary (RSS) > > Refer to > > ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/software/data/informix/ids/Availability_whitepaper.pdf > > for more details on the above features. > > Developing an agent for IDS 11 for OHAC simply provides further > choice for availability and could be used together with the availability > features of IDS 11 or as a solution by itself. > > 5) Related Projects > > Currently IBM provides a Sun Cluster failover agent for IDS that was > created for SC 3.1 update 2 for Solaris SPARC. > > IBM provides this agent as free to download but does not offer any > formal support for the agent. Specifically the customer is encouraged to > modify the agent thereby owning the code. In particular the following > text is available when downloading the agent. > > "IBM Informix HA Agent is sample code that helps customers in > setting up IDS (Informix Dynamic Server) in a Sun Cluster environment. > The package explains how this sample code works and how it can be used > to support IDS in a cluster environment. This package is basic and we > expect any customer to modify it based on their requirements." > > 6) Additional Information > > The failover agent for IBM Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) that this > project proposes will be new code and will not inherit any code from > IBM's current agent for IDS. It is our understanding from IBM that they > will not develop their agent further and therefore by developing an > agent for IDS 11, we will have a clear line of separation between the > agent developed by IBM for SC 3.1 update 2 for Solaris SPARC and this > project's agent for IDS 11 in OHAC. > > > _______________________________________________ > ogb-discuss mailing list > ogb-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ogb-discuss >
