Re: [Veritas-ha] SG Failover&Failback Query

2006-09-03 Thread Tom Stephens
Munish,       If, after you brought up SysA, SGA failed back over to it you would incur an outage.  It’s the position of VCS to try and maintain the highest availability of your application.  As a result, it will not fail back to a server automatically like this.  If SysB faults f

Re: [Veritas-ha] SG Failover&Failback Query

2006-09-03 Thread Tom Stephens
have done this manually).       Hope this explains it a bit more.       Tom     From: Munish Dhawan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 03, 2006 7:00 PM To: Tom Stephens; Veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-ha] SG Failover&Failback Q

Re: [Veritas-ha] Unable to mount volumes on nfs-client in VSF 4.1 MP2for RHEL 4 AS U3 hosts.....

2006-10-15 Thread Tom Stephens
Dharmesh, This may sound a bit repetitive from what support has told you, but here's what I'd try: First, this appears to be a NFS problem. Even so, what I would do is first isolate it completely from VCS. To do this, I would stop VCS (hastop -all) and make sure that all the resources w

Re: [Veritas-ha] conf_reached event

2006-10-16 Thread Tom Stephens
Laszlo,       The short answer is this isn’t something that you should be concerned about.        For a bit longer answer, there is a attribute called ConfidenceInterval.  This attribute reflects the amount of time that a resource must be in a particular state (online,

Re: [Veritas-ha] Application Agent Problem

2007-02-12 Thread Tom Stephens
Holger, You should make the exit values for your monitor script equal 100 for offline and 110 for online, given the version of VCS you are using. I don't suppose the line: { if ($4 == "Alive") {exit 1} else {exit 0} Is causing you issues? But a easy way to troub

Re: [Veritas-ha] To check my Veritas Products Licences expiryinformation

2007-03-27 Thread Tom Stephens
You should be able to use vxlicrep to report on all your licenses on a system. Tom _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Damodharan K Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 2:52 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject:

Re: [Veritas-ha] MultiNICB agent not finding mpathd

2007-04-26 Thread Tom Stephens
Ceri, No, it's not a bug. It's trying to match the entire line (including the -a). Tom -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ceri Davies Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 3:11 AM To: veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Ve

Re: [Veritas-ha] State Unknown

2007-05-28 Thread Tom Stephens
Is vxconfigd running on each of the systems? Tom From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Hunter Sent: Monday, May 28, 2007 7:03 AM To: veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-ha] State Unknown Can'

Re: [Veritas-ha] NFS resources not able bring online

2007-05-28 Thread Tom Stephens
You might also want to try to set the Options attribute for your Share resource to "-o rw" Tom From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Munish Dhawan Sent: Monday, May 28, 2007 3:43 AM To: Zhisong Jason Jin; veritas-ha@m

Re: [Veritas-ha] exit 110 is not enough to make "monitor" happy

2007-08-27 Thread Tom Stephens
If the monitor test is not valid (regarding you exit with 110) then the monitor should exit with 100 (offline). Tom Sent by Good Messaging (www.good.com) -Original Message- From: Charles Bueche [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 27, 2007 07:48 AM US Mountain Stand

Re: [Veritas-ha] vcs 4.1mp2 + RH linux and nfs question (CharlesMinder)

2007-09-20 Thread Tom Stephens
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Re: [Veritas-ha] vcs 4.1mp2 + RH linux and nfs question

2007-09-20 Thread Tom Stephens
I would suggest that you use the NetApp agents instead of the bundled Mount agent. Tom From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Arjun koneru Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 6:31 AM To: veritas-ha Subject: [Veritas-ha]

Re: [Veritas-ha] Highly available Symantec Authentication/Authorizationin VCS

2007-09-28 Thread Tom Stephens
Some comments inline with TS>: Tom -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rongsheng Fang Sent: Friday, September 28, 2007 6:53 AM To: veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Veritas-ha] Highly available Symantec

Re: [Veritas-ha] Resource dependencies and restart

2007-10-04 Thread Tom Stephens
When the resource fails a monitor, and RestartLimit is >0, then it will attempt to restart the resource. It will not, however, mark the resource as faulted unless the resource fails to start after the restart (or until the number of restarts has been exceeded). So in order for the resfault trigge

Re: [Veritas-ha] Restart VCS and GAB

2008-02-08 Thread Tom Stephens
You shouldn't need to restart GAB/LLT, as it should automatically heal it's self when the links are re-established. You may want to recheck the cabling again. Tom From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Karthik Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 3:53

Re: [Veritas-ha] CFS 5.0 install problem

2008-02-11 Thread Tom Stephens
Karthik, This could be due to a couple of possible problems. One, you may not have downloaded the complete package. Under the directory where you extracted the files to, make sure you can find the CPI/common/CPI.pm file. If it is there, and your still getting the error, try ad

Re: [Veritas-ha] "Failed" disk group resource doesn't cause a servicegroup failover

2008-03-31 Thread Tom Stephens
Jorgen, Consider the situation where it did fail over the disk group to another system (sysb). At this point, sysb would have the ability to read and write to the diskgroup and is functioning as expected. Sysa (the system where you pulled the fiber from) is still running to

Re: [Veritas-ha] RestartLimit and ConfInterval

2008-03-31 Thread Tom Stephens
Ceri, You would be correct that there is not a way for you to monitor the amount of time left in the ConfInterval. Depending on how your application is configured, you may be able to craft the monitor EP for it in such a way to utilize the ConfidenceLevel in conjunction with the o

Re: [Veritas-ha] Veritas Cluster Server 5.0 available for RHEL 5.x

2008-05-22 Thread Tom Stephens
Not according to the release notes for the product. These can be found at: ftp://exftpp.symantec.com/pub/support/products/ClusterServer_UNIX/283850 .pdf (For Linux 5.0) ftp://exftpp.symantec.com/pub/support/products/ClusterServer_UNIX/287175 .pdf (For Linux 5.0 MP1) ftp://exftpp.symantec.co

Re: [Veritas-ha] missing or illegal database name

2008-06-05 Thread Tom Stephens
Did the value for your Pfile attribute definition get cut off? Tom -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pablo Calvo Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 9:21 AM To: veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-ha] missing or illegal da

Re: [Veritas-ha] VCS 5.03 Application agent probing

2009-01-09 Thread Tom Stephens
Is your exit code for success 110 and for failure of the monitor 100? Tom From: veritas-ha-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [mailto:veritas-ha-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Jeff_Jones Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 11:52 AM To: veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.e

Re: [Veritas-ha] Removing VCS group

2009-01-30 Thread Tom Stephens
Just to add a bit to Jim's response... Once you deleted the SG from the VCS configuration using the Cluster GUI, you would then need to remove the VxVM disk group. I'm assuming that before you removed the service group, you brought it offline. This should have deported the disk group for you. A

Re: [Veritas-ha] Mount resource failed

2009-02-04 Thread Tom Stephens
Ganesh, I'd suggest you open a support case with Symantec, as there are several reason why this could be happening. Make sure that you tell them if you are using VVR or not when you open the case. Tom -Original Message- From: veritas-ha-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu [m

Re: [Veritas-ha] Tutorial

2009-07-08 Thread Tom Stephens
Charles, There is not a online training/tutorial that I know of, however there are several examples in the User's Guide. (http://www.symantec.com/business/support/knowledge_base_sli.jsp?pid=150 66) Though the foundation of knowledge that you have with 3.5 shoul

Re: [Veritas-ha] NICs and Proxy resources

2009-07-08 Thread Tom Stephens
Charles, I'd still recommend using a proxy setup like your familiar with. The proxy resources don't have to point to a resource in the ClusterService group, but could refer to any NIC resource that you have in a different SG. If you have several SG's that are all using the same

Re: [Veritas-ha] NICs and Proxy resources

2009-07-09 Thread Tom Stephens
ther people's mistakes and the rest of us have to be other people." -- Zig Ziglar, Author From: Tom Stephens [mailto:tom_steph...@symantec.com] Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 11:49 PM To: Baker, Charles H.; veritas-ha@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-ha] NICs and Prox

Re: [Veritas-ha] VCS 5.0 MP3 on RHEL5.2

2010-01-27 Thread Tom Stephens
Gak, The way that the LVMVolumeGroup agent determines the state of the resource (VG in your case) is by execution of the monitor script under /opt/VRTSvcs/bin/LVMVolumeGroup. If memory serves, this is a Perl based script that you should be able to cat out and view easily. I bel