InfoScale™ 9.0 Cluster Server Agent for Sybase Installation and Configuration Guide - AIX

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Product(s): InfoScale & Storage Foundation (9.0)
Platform: AIX
  1. Introducing the Cluster Server agent for Sybase
    1.  
      About the Cluster Server agent for Sybase
    2.  
      Supported software for the VCS agent for Sybase
    3.  
      How the agent makes Sybase highly available
    4.  
      How the Sybase and SybaseBk agents support intelligent resource monitoring
    5. About the Sybase agent functions
      1.  
        Sybase agent functions
      2.  
        SybaseBk agent functions
      3.  
        Using the IPC Cleanup feature for the Sybase agent
    6.  
      Monitoring options for the Sybase agent
    7.  
      Action function for the VCS agent for Sybase
    8.  
      Typical Sybase configuration in a VCS cluster
  2. Installing and configuring Sybase
    1. VCS requirements for installing Sybase
      1.  
        Sybase installation directory
      2.  
        SYBASE directory on shared disks
      3.  
        System Group and User for Sybase home directory
      4.  
        Database dbspaces
      5.  
        Transparent TCP/IP failover
      6.  
        Changes required in Sybase RUN_Server file for AMF offline monitoring
      7.  
        Language settings for the Sybase agent
      8.  
        AMF kernel driver limitation for process offline event notification
    2.  
      Installing Sybase in a VCS environment
    3.  
      Configuring Sybase for detail monitoring
  3. Installing, upgrading, and removing the agent for Sybase
    1.  
      Before you install or upgrade the agent for Sybase
    2.  
      Installing the agent for Sybase
    3.  
      Disabling the agent for Sybase
    4.  
      Removing the agent for Sybase
    5.  
      Upgrading the agent for Sybase
  4. Configuring VCS service groups for Sybase
    1.  
      About configuring service groups for Sybase
    2. Before configuring the service group for Sybase
      1.  
        Importing the SybaseTypes.cf file
    3.  
      Configuring the service groups for Sybase
    4.  
      Configuring the service group for Sybase from Cluster Manager (Java console)
    5.  
      Configuring the service group for Sybase using the command line
    6.  
      Encrypting passwords for Sybase
    7. About setting up detail monitoring for the agent for Sybase
      1.  
        Enabling detail monitoring for the agent for Sybase
      2.  
        Disabling detail monitoring for the agent for Sybase
    8.  
      Enabling and disabling intelligent resource monitoring (IMF) for agents
    9.  
      Administering the AMF kernel driver
  5. Administering VCS service groups for Sybase
    1.  
      About administering service groups for Sybase
    2.  
      Bringing the Sybase service group online
    3.  
      Taking the Sybase service group offline
    4.  
      Switching the Sybase service group
    5.  
      Modifying the Sybase service group configuration
    6.  
      Viewing the agent log for Sybase
  6. Appendix A. Resource type definitions for Sybase
    1.  
      About the resource type and attribute definitions for Sybase
    2. Sybase resource type
      1.  
        Type definition for the Sybase agent
      2.  
        Attribute definitions for the Sybase agent
    3. SybaseBk resource type
      1.  
        Type definition for the SybaseBk agent
      2.  
        Attribute definitions for the SybaseBk agent
  7. Appendix B. Sample configurations for Sybase
    1.  
      About the sample configuration for the Sybase agent
    2.  
      Resource dependency graph for the Sybase agent
    3.  
      Sample configuration for a Sybase service group on AIX systems

Enabling and disabling intelligent resource monitoring (IMF) for agents

Review the following procedures to enable or disable intelligent resource monitoring manually. The intelligent resource monitoring feature is enabled by default. The IMF resource type attribute determines whether an IMF-aware agent must perform intelligent resource monitoring.

Note:

VCS provides haimfconfig script to enable and disable IMF for agents. You can use the script when VCS is running or when VCS is stopped. Use the script to enable or disable IMF for the IMF-aware bundled agents, enterprise agents, and custom agents.

For additional information, refer to Enabling and disabling IMF for agents by using script section in Cluster Server Administrator's Guide.

See How the Sybase and SybaseBk agents support intelligent resource monitoring .

Note:

All Sybase resources in the cluster gets modified when you enable or disable IMF monitoring for agents.

To enable intelligent resource monitoring

  1. Make the VCS configuration writable.
    # haconf -makerw
  2. Run the following command to enable intelligent resource monitoring.

    • To enable intelligent monitoring of offline resources:

      # hatype -modify resource_type IMF -update Mode 1

    • To enable intelligent monitoring of online resources:

      # hatype -modify resource_type IMF -update Mode 2

    • To enable intelligent monitoring of both online and offline resources:

      # hatype -modify resource_type IMF -update Mode 3

    You can also change the values of the MonitorFreq key and the RegisterRetryLimit key of the IMF attribute.

    See Attribute definitions for the Sybase agent.

    See Attribute definitions for the SybaseBk agent.

  3. Save the VCS configuration
    # haconf -dump -makero
  4. Make sure that the AMF kernel driver is configured on all nodes in the cluster.
    # /etc/init.d/amf.rc status
  5. Restart the agent. Run the following commands on each node.
    # haagent -stop agent_name -force -sys sys_name
# haagent -start agent_name -sys sys_name

To disable intelligent resource monitoring

  1. Make the VCS configuration writable.
    # haconf -makerw
  2. To disable intelligent resource monitoring for all the resources of a certain type, run the following command:
    # hatype -modify Sybase IMF -update Mode 0
  3. To disable intelligent resource monitoring for a specific resource, run the following command:
    # hares -override resource_name IMF
# hares -modify resource_name IMF -update Mode 0
  4. Save the VCS configuration.
    # haconf -dump -makero