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
Upgrading the agent for Sybase
This section describes the procedure to upgrade the VCS agent for Sybase in a Cluster Server (VCS) cluster. Execute the following steps on each node of the VCS cluster.
Note:
For details on the supported upgrade paths for the agent, refer to the Configuration and Upgrade Guide for your product.
To upgrade the VCS agent for Sybase
- Save the VCS configuration and stop the VCS engine.
# haconf -dump -makero # hastop -all -force
- Back up the configuration file, main.cf to a location on the cluster node.
- Based on your current VCS agent version for Sybase, perform the appropriate steps on all systems that have the agent installed:
To
Perform the following steps
Upgrade the VCS agent from a version earlier than 5.1
Remove the VCS agent for Sybase, by using the following command:
# installp -u VRTSvcssy
Move the old SybaseTypes.cf file:
# mv /etc/VRTSvcs/conf/config/SybaseTypes.cf /etc/VRTSvcs/conf/config/SybaseTypes.cf.bkp
Install the Cluster Server Agent for Sybase.
Navigate to the directory that contains the packages:
# cd pkgs
Apply the package by running the following command:
Caution:
If you run the following command, the VCS agents for Oracle and DB2 are also upgraded.
# installp -ac -d VRTSvcsea.rte.bff VRTSvcsea
Upgrade the VCS agent from 5.1 or later
Remove the VCS agent for Sybase using the following command:
# installp -u VRTSvcsea
Take backup of SybaseTypes.cf
# mv /etc/VRTSvcs/conf/config/SybaseTypes.cf /etc/VRTSvcs/conf/config/SybaseTypes.cf_bkp
Install the Cluster Server Agent for Sybase.
Navigate to the directory that contains the packages:
# cd pkgs
Apply the package by running the following command:
Caution:
If you run the following command, the VCS agents for Oracle and DB2 are also upgraded.
# installp -ac -d VRTSvcsea.rte.bff VRTSvcsea
- Make sure that you have copied the SybaseTypes.cf file from the
/etc/VRTSagents/ha/conf/Sybase directory to /etc/VRTSvcs/conf/configdirectory.Make sure to update the newly copied SybaseTypes.cf file with all the type-level changes that you had made to the older SybaseTypes.cf file.
For example, if you had changed the value of the MonitorInterval attribute from the default 60 to 120 seconds, the SybaseTypes.cf file gets updated. You must apply these type-level changes manually to the newly copied SybaseTypes.cf file.
- Copy the main.cf file from the backed up location to /etc/VRTSvcs/conf/config directory.
- Verify the configuration.
# cd /etc/VRTSvcs/conf/config # hacf -verify .
- Start VCS on the local node.
- Start VCS on the other nodes.