[Veritas-ha] Custom Agent

2007-04-05 Thread Fred Butler
Team - I need to write a custom agent in VCS and I need to know what manual has this information. Or - if someone has some notes on this process they would like to share I would be very appreciative. ___ Veritas-ha maillist - Veritas-ha@mailman.eng.aub

Re: [Veritas-ha] Custom Agent

2007-04-05 Thread Andrey Dmitriev
There is an agent guide, it's fairly extensive. -andrey -Original Message- From: Fred Butler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 10:45 AM To: veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-ha] Custom Agent Team - I need to write a custom agent in VCS and I nee

Re: [Veritas-ha] Custom Agent

2007-04-05 Thread Jim Senicka
http://eval.symantec.com/mktginfo/products/White_Papers/High_Availabilit y/agent_dev_by_example.pdf Written by Tom Stephens and Eric Hennessey on my team. Fantastic stuff -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Fred Butler Sent: Thursday, Apri

Re: [Veritas-ha] Custom Agent

2007-04-05 Thread Stanley, Jon
Have you looked at the aptly named 'Agent Developers Guide'? :-) Or maybe the Application agent does what you need it to do instead? If you can provide external scripts to do the online, offline, monitor, and clean functionality, then that's all that you need... > -Original Message- > F

Re: [Veritas-ha] Custom Agent

2007-04-05 Thread Jim Senicka
The programming by example is the best bet -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stanley, Jon Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 11:06 AM To: Fred Butler; veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-ha] Custom Agent Have you looked at t

Re: [Veritas-ha] Custom Agent

2007-04-05 Thread Fred Butler
Thanks Jon / Jim! I know you guys don't want to hear this but I write these agents all the time for Sun Cluster and this is my first request to do one for VCS. I already have the start / stop / monitor scripts already created and I just needed the info to incorporate them into the VCS Framework. I

Re: [Veritas-ha] Custom Agent

2007-04-05 Thread Jim Senicka
If you already have start/stop/monitor, Take a look at the Application Agent in the BARG. That should cover like 98% of apps -Original Message- From: Fred Butler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 11:47 AM To: 'Stanley, Jon'; veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu; Jim

Re: [Veritas-ha] Custom Agent

2007-04-05 Thread Neeraj Bhatia
Just in case you're not familiar with what BARG stands for, it's the Bundled Agents Reference Guide. Regards, Neeraj -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Senicka Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 8:51 AM To: Fred Butler; Stanley, Jon; verita

Re: [Veritas-ha] Custom Agent

2007-04-05 Thread Cronin, John S
And the Bundled Agents Guide is probably the VCS documentation I refer to the most. Make sure you read the notes at the end of the reference info on the attributes and the sample configuration - these notes can save you a LOT of pain and frustration. -- John Cronin 678-480-6266 -Original Me

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2007-04-05 Thread Mangala Gunadasa
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Re: [Veritas-ha] Custom Agent

2007-04-05 Thread Fred Butler
Thanks All! I got all the information I need to get started. Regards, Fred Butler (484) 241-5912 (Cell #1) (484) 903-4742 (Cell #2) http://www.arch.com/ Pin#: 8778977117 -Original Message- From: Neeraj Bhatia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 12:23 PM To:

Re: [Veritas-ha] Custom Agent

2007-04-05 Thread Cronin, John S
Jim is correct about the Application Agent - it is very flexible, so use it if you can. Custom agents case cause support issues - Symantec officially only supports custom agents written by their Professional Services (Consulting) organization. If it is an Application Agent issue, it is going to b