Symantec Cluster Server (VCS) 6.1 for Windows: Encrypting VCS agent passwords and user passwords
When you edit the VCS "main.cf" configuration file to perform any of the following tasks, you must encrypt the user passwords and the VCS agent passwords: Add VCS users Configure agents that require user passwords You can use the vcsencrypt utility to encrypt the passwords. To encrypt the user passwords, type the following command: vcsencrypt –vcs To encrypt the VCS agent passwords, type the following command: vcsencrypt –agent The VCS 6.1 for Windows release introduces a mode to generate a security key to create more secure passwords, for VCS agents. By default, security key-based encryption is not enabled. To generate a security key, you must add the "SecInfo" cluster attribute to the main.cf file, with a security key as the attribute value. By default, only administrators can generate security keys. Note: You can perform security key-based encryption only using the CLI. The service group configuration wizards do not use security keys to encrypt the agent passwords. For more information about encrypting the agent passwords using security keys, see: Encrypting agent passwords using security keys Generating a security key Encrypting the agent password VCS documentation for other releases and platforms can be found on theSORT website.SFHA Solutions 6.0.1: Using Veritas Cluster Server Agents
Veritas Cluster Server (VCS) agents provide high availability to resources within a cluster environment. Resources are hardware or software entities that make up the application. A few examples of resources include disk groups and file systems, network interface cards (NIC), IP addresses, and applications are a few examples of resources. Each type of resource requires an agent. The agent acts as an intermediary between VCS and the resources it manages, typically by bringing them online, monitoring their state, or taking them offline. For more information on VCS agents, see: About agents in VCS About agent functions VCS agent framework Administering agents VCS agents are classified as follows: Bundled agents— Bundled agents are Veritas Cluster Server processes that manage resources of predefined resource types according to commands received from the VCS engine, theHigh Availability Daemon(HAD). They include agents for Disk, Mount, IP, and various other resource types. Bundled agents are packaged and installed along with VCS. For more information on Bundled agents, see: Veritas Cluster Server Bundled Agents Reference Guide Enterprise agents— Enterprise agents control third party enterprise applications, namely, Oracle, Sybase, and DB2. These enterprise agents are packaged along with VCS. For more information on VCS enterprise agents, see: VCS Agent for Oracle Installation and Configuration Guide VCS Agent for Sybase Installation and Configuration Guide VCS Agent for DB2 Installation and Configuration Guide You can download the enterprise agents that are shipped separately, from the Symantec Operations Readiness Tools (SORT) website, athttps://sort.symantec.com/agents. Agent Pack agents— Agent Pack agents are developed by Symantec for enterprise applications, databases, and replication solutions. They are part of the quarterly Agent Pack release. These agents are also available on theSORT website. For more information on VCS agents shipped with the Agent Pack release, see: Veritas High Availability Agent Pack Getting Started Guide Custom agents— Custom agents are developed by third parties. Typically, custom agents are developed because the user requires control of an application that current agents do not support. For more information on developing custom VCS agents, see: Veritas Cluster Server Agent Developer's Guide VCS documentation for other releases and platforms can be found on theSORT website.
SFHA Solutions 6.0.1: Configuring Veritas Cluster Server (VCS) in an Oracle VM Server for Solaris SPARC environment
Oracle VM Server for SPARC is a virtualization technology on the Solaris SPARC platform that enables you to create multiple virtual systems called logical domains (LDoms), on a single physical host. The virtualized computing environment is abstracted from all physical devices and allows you to centrally manage your workloads on a system. The logical domains can be assigned different roles such as control domain, service domain, I/O domain, and guest domain. Each domain is a full virtual machine where operating systems can be started, stopped, and rebooted independently. VCS uses the LDom agent to manage the Oracle VM Server for SPARC guest domains. Storage agents such as Disk agent, DiskGroup agent, and Zpool agent can be used to manage storage services provided to a guest domain. Network agents such as the network interface card (NIC) agent can be used to manage networking services provided to the guest domain. VCS provides the following functions for LDoms: Enables logical domain availability in the host (control domain) Initiates external reboot (hard reboot) of guest domain Enables failover of the guest domain to another VCS node Responds to user-initiated guest domain migration Enables dynamic re-configuration of CPU and memory assigned to the guest domain Creates logical domain configuration from the configuration file Automatically synchronizes the domain configuration file across the cluster nodes For more information about VCS in an Oracle VM Server for SPARC environment: About Veritas Cluster Server in an Oracle VM Server for SPARC environment About Veritas Cluster Server configuration models in an Oracle VM Server for SPARC environment Oracle VM Server for SPARC guest domain migration in VCS environment Configuring VCS to manage a logical domain using services from multiple I/O domains Configuration scenarios For more information on configuring VCS in an Oracle VM Server for SPARC environment, see Veritas Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions Virtualization Guide VCS documentation for other platforms and releases can be found on the SORT website.
Veritas Enterprise administrator 6.0 - could not connect
Hi All, I have new deploy for VXSF with HA for windows ,I run the wizard to install server componemts, everything running fine and wizard finished sucessfully, after reboot I opened Veritas Enterprise administrator and tried to connect the localhost. I typed username and password but it disconnected and give following message: ""System Extension Error:The system in not responding as expected, Disconnecting from host.'" So how I can solve this issue? thnaks in advance