Veritas Cluster Server User's Guide

Veritas™ Cluster Server User’s Guide HP-UX 5.0 N18472G Veritas Cluster Server User’s Guide Copyright © 2006 Symantec Corporation. All rights reserved. Veritas Cluster Server 5.0 Symantec, the Symantec logo,Veritas, are trademarks or registered trademarks of Symantec Corporation or its affiliates in the U.S. and other countries. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners. The product described in this document is distributed under licenses restricting its use, copying, distribution, and decompilation/reverse engineering. No part of this document may be reproduced in any form by any means without prior written authorization of Symantec Corporation and its licensors, if any. 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Use the Knowledge Base search feature to access resources such as TechNotes, product alerts, software downloads, hardware compatibility lists, and our customer email notification service. 4 Contents Section I Clustering concepts and terminology Chapter 1 Introducing Veritas Cluster Server What is a VCS cluster? ........................................................................................16 Can my application be clustered? ......................................................................18 Physical components of VCS ..............................................................................20 Logical components of VCS ................................................................................21 Putting the pieces together ................................................................................30 Chapter 2 About cluster topologies Basic failover configurations .............................................................................34 Advanced failover configurations .....................................................................38 Cluster topologies and storage configurations ...............................................41 Chapter 3 VCS configuration concepts About configuring VCS .......................................................................................46 About the VCS configuration language ............................................................46 About the main.cf file ..........................................................................................47 The types.cf file ....................................................................................................49 About VCS attributes ...........................................................................................51 About VCS keywords and reserved words ........................................................55 VCS environment variables ................................................................................56 Section II Administration-Putting VCS to work Chapter 4 About the VCS user privilege model About VCS user privileges and roles .................................................................62 How administrators assign roles to users ........................................................66 User privileges for OS user groups in secure clusters ...................................66 About VCS privileges for users with multiple roles .......................................68 6 Contents Chapter 5 Administering the cluster from the Cluster Management Console About Veritas Cluster Management Console .................................................. 70 Verifying installation and browser requirements .......................................... 72 Configuring the Cluster Management Console manually ............................. 72 Logging in to the Cluster Management Console ............................................. 74 Logging out of the Cluster Management Console ........................................... 75 Overview of the Cluster Management Console .............................................. 76 About online help ............................................................................................... 91 Administering users ............................................................................................ 93 Administering a cluster ...................................................................................... 96 Administering service groups ........................................................................... 98 Administering resources ..................................................................................115 Administering resource types .........................................................................125 Administering systems .....................................................................................127 Administering attributes ..................................................................................130 Viewing logs .......................................................................................................130 Conducting a search ..........................................................................................132 Chapter 6 Administering the cluster from Cluster Manager (Java console) About the Cluster Manager (Java Console) ....................................................137 Getting started ...................................................................................................137 Reviewing components of the Java Console ..................................................140 Icons in the Java Console ..................................................................................140 About Cluster Monitor ......................................................................................142 About Cluster Explorer .....................................................................................148 Accessing additional features of the Java Console .......................................160 Administering Cluster Monitor .......................................................................169 Administering user profiles .............................................................................174 Administering service groups .........................................................................178 Administering resources ..................................................................................199 Importing resource types .................................................................................217 Administering systems .....................................................................................218 Administering clusters .....................................................................................220 Executing commands ........................................................................................221 Editing attributes ...............................................................................................221 Querying the cluster configuration ................................................................224 Setting up VCS event notification using the Notifier wizard .....................225 Administering logs ............................................................................................228 Administering VCS Simulator .........................................................................232 Contents 7 Chapter 7 Administering the cluster from the command line About administering VCS from the command line ......................................234 Installing a VCS license .....................................................................................235 Starting VCS .......................................................................................................236 Stopping VCS ......................................................................................................237 Logging on to VCS ..............................................................................................240 Managing VCS configuration files ..................................................................242 Managing VCS users from

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