InfoScale™ 9.0 Cluster Server Agent for Sybase Installation and Configuration Guide - AIX
- Introducing the Cluster Server agent for Sybase
- About the Cluster Server agent for Sybase
- Supported software for the VCS agent for Sybase
- How the agent makes Sybase highly available
- How the Sybase and SybaseBk agents support intelligent resource monitoring
- About the Sybase agent functions
- Monitoring options for the Sybase agent
- Action function for the VCS agent for Sybase
- Typical Sybase configuration in a VCS cluster
- Installing and configuring Sybase
- VCS requirements for installing Sybase
- Sybase installation directory
- SYBASE directory on shared disks
- System Group and User for Sybase home directory
- Database dbspaces
- Transparent TCP/IP failover
- Changes required in Sybase RUN_Server file for AMF offline monitoring
- Language settings for the Sybase agent
- AMF kernel driver limitation for process offline event notification
- Installing Sybase in a VCS environment
- Configuring Sybase for detail monitoring
- VCS requirements for installing Sybase
- Installing, upgrading, and removing the agent for Sybase
- Configuring VCS service groups for Sybase
- About configuring service groups for Sybase
- Before configuring the service group for Sybase
- Configuring the service groups for Sybase
- Configuring the service group for Sybase from Cluster Manager (Java console)
- Configuring the service group for Sybase using the command line
- Encrypting passwords for Sybase
- About setting up detail monitoring for the agent for Sybase
- Enabling and disabling intelligent resource monitoring (IMF) for agents
- Administering the AMF kernel driver
- Administering VCS service groups for Sybase
- Appendix A. Resource type definitions for Sybase
- Appendix B. Sample configurations for Sybase
Monitoring options for the Sybase agent
The VCS agent for Sybase provides two levels of application monitoring: basic and detail.
In the basic monitoring mode, the agent for Sybase monitors the Sybase dataserver processes to verify whether they are running.
In the detail monitoring mode, the agent performs a transaction on a test table in the database to ensure that Sybase server is functioning properly. The test table should be created by the user, and the table is specified in the attribute Table for the Sybase agent. The agent uses this test table for internal purposes. recommends that you do not perform any other transaction on the test table.
For the Sybase ASE Enterprise edition, when the agent detects that the configured Sybase server is not running on a system, the Sybase service group is failed over to the next available system in the service group's SystemList. The configured Sybase servers are started on the new system, thus ensuring high availability for the Sybase server and data.
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