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InfoScale™ 9.0 Cluster Server Bundled Agents Reference Guide - Solaris

Last Published: 2025-09-09

Product(s): InfoScale & Storage Foundation (9.0)

Platform: Solaris

Attributes for NIC agent

Table: Required attributes

Required attribute	Description
Device	Name of the NIC that you want to monitor. Type and dimension: string-scalar Example: "e1000g0"

Required attribute

Description

Device

Name of the NIC that you want to monitor.

Type and dimension: string-scalar

Example: "e1000g0"

Table: Optional attributes

Optional attribute	Description
BroadcastTest	Specifies whether to perform a ping test on the broadcast address that is present on the NIC as part the monitor operation. The ping test determines whether the network connection is alive. This attribute is used if the ping test on the hosts specified in the NetworkHosts attribute fails. Disable this attribute if you want to perform the ping test only on the hosts provided in NetworkHosts. Type-dimension: boolean-scalar Default: 1
ExclusiveIPZone	ExclusiveIPZone Specifies that a resource is configured for an exclusive IP zone. Set this value to 1 if a resource is configured for exclusive IP zone. When set to 1, it requires a valid ContainerInfo to be configured in the service group. Type-dimension: boolean-scalar Default: 0
NetworkHosts	List of hosts on the network that are pinged to determine if the network connection is alive. You can use this attribute to help to save network capacity and reduce monitor time. Arctera recommends that you use the outgoing gateway routers for this value. Enter the IP address of the host, instead of the host name, to prevent the monitor from timing out. DNS causes the ping to hang. If more than one network host is listed, the monitor returns ONLINE if at least one of the hosts is alive. If an invalid network host address is specified, the resource enters an UNKNOWN state. If you do not specify network hosts, the monitor tests the NIC by sending pings to the broadcast address on the NIC. Type and dimension: string-vector Example: { "166.93.2.1", "166.99.1.2", "2620:128:f0a2:9005::1" }
NetworkType	Type of network. VCS supports only Ethernet. Type and dimension: string-scalar Default: "ether"
PingOptimize	Determines whether to ping during every monitor cycle. The value can be: If set to 0, the agent pings either the network host or the broadcast address during every monitor cycle. It pings during each cycle to determine the state of the network interface. If set to 1, the agent uses the device statistics from the output of the netstat command to determine the state of the network interface. If no activity exists on the interface, the agent pings the broadcast address to double-check the state of the network interface. Type and dimension: integer-scalar Default: 1
PingTest	Specifies whether to perform a ping test on the NIC: If set to 1, the monitor function determines whether the network connection is alive by pinging the hosts specified in the NetworkHosts attribute. If NetworkHosts is not set, it uses the broadcast addresses on the NIC to perform the ping test. If set to 0, the monitor function does not perform the ping test. It only checks whether the NIC resource is up or down and returns the status. Type-dimension: boolean-scalar Default: 1
LinkTest	Determines whether the network connection is alive by checking the link status on the data-link layer. If set to 1, the agent uses the dladm command to check for the link state, instead of checks on the IP address. The ipadm check and ping test check on IP addresses can be skipped with this attribute. This is useful when you want to monitor a device that does not have an IP address configured. If set to 0, the agent continues with the normal flow of execution to determine whether the IP is up or not. Type and dimension: boolean-scalar Default: 0