High Availability Agents - Agent Pack - 1Q2016 release
Veritas High Availability Agent Pack 1Q 2016is now available on SORT:https://sort.veritas.com/agents. Application Agents Added support for JBoss 8.x and 9.x. The JBoss Application Server 8.0 and later releases are now known as WildFly. Added support for Infomatica 9.5.1 on the AIX, Linux, and Solaris operating systems. Added support for SAP HANA SPS11. Replication Agents Enhanced EMC SRDF/SRDFSnap agent to support TimeFinder Snap and TimeFinder Clone in the CVM environment. Enhanced EMC SRDF/SRDFSnap agent to support CVM/CFS (SFRAC) on the Solaris 11 SPARC operating system. Enhanced the HTC agent support on the Solaris x86 operating system. Enhanced the HP 3PAR RemoteCopy agent to support on the Solaris 11 SPARC operating system. Enhanced the HP 3PAR RemoteCopy agent to support in the CFS environment on the AIX, Linux, and Solaris operating systems. Added a new attribute known as VCSResLock, which ensures the serialized management in case of a parallel application on the AIX, Linux, and Solaris operating systems. Important Fixes IBM WebSphere agent Filter process pattern is updated in agent to find the appropriate WebSphere process. IBM Informix Dynamic Server In the Solaris non-global zone, the agent now monitors the process whose PPID is the PID of the zone scheduler process. Updated agent start operation, the oninit –yw command is used to start the Informix server. Updated agent stop operation, the onshutdown.sh script is used to stop the Informix server. Hitachi TrueCopy; HP XP Continuous Access Updated agent to rescan all slave nodes before importing the shared DiskGroup during online. If LinkMonitor attribute is set to 2, the agent logs messages when the state of the Hitachi TrueCopy instance changes from PAIR to NON-PAIR in every monitor cycle. AllowAutoFailoverInterval functionality, which allows failover even if the SplitTakeover attribute is set to 0 in case FENCE level NEVER, is now supported in the GCO environment.533Views1like0Comments
VCS SAP HANA agent
Hello all! We have Replicated Data Cluster two nodes in local cluster. No global clustering. My questions now about our RDC cluster. I could not find all neсessary information in cluster pdf doc. 1. When the primary Site1 fails (or we switch over SAP IP vcs group manually ) the secondary Site2 becomes primary with Site 1 DB going down. Should the cluster agent start up Site 1 DB as secondary automatically or administrator must do it manually? 2. We must have three different IPs for RDC cluster : one virtual IP is for connections from applications (productive SAP IP) and two IPs for two nodes for data replication between primary and secondary databases. But we have no sample RDC cluster configuration with replication IPs. Why? This is strange because cluster must know about network replication status... 3. Is Replicated Data Cluster (RDC) really supported for SAP HANA Cluster Agent ? Could you give us a real working configuration example? Thank you very much! Kind regards , Pavel TsvetkovSolved1.1KViews0likes1CommentDisk group fails after implementing disk group fencing
Hi, I have a laboratory scenario with two virtual machines. Those virtual machines have installed SFHA 6.2 suite. Version of RHEL is 6.5. I firstly installed a failover cluster of oracle database. Binaries are installed localy and the database files in a separated vmware disk. This disk is managed by the vmware agent. The group of services are the following ones: Vmware disk->disk group-->volume-->mount-->oracle database SID-->listener Before installing the fencing with three disks using RDM, the cluster was working perfectly. The volume where the oracle SID is installed in a vmdk disk separately is manged by SF and the volume is mounted using vxfs. The problem is that know, when I try to online the resource group the diskgroup agent fails. I would like to be updated with any idea before posting logs... ThanksSolved1.4KViews0likes6Comments
VCS 6.2 Agents for Adabas and MariaDB
Hi colleagues, For a customer I have to integrate two seperate databases into VCS 6.2 running on Oracle Linux. However I have no experience with both of them. And I could not find anything on SORT. Could someone point me to the right direction regarding the VCS Agents? MariaDB The first one is MariaDB. However I can not find anything about MariaDB together with VCS. As I found out MariaDB is a spinoff from MySQL since the Oracle/Sun merge, it's very simular to MySQL. Does this mean I can use the same datbase resource as one would use for MySQL? Or is there a sperate one? I assume MariaDB works seemless with VCS 6.2, since I saw this Release Note of SFHA 6.2 stating "Performance improvements forMySQL and MariaDB applications". So I would guess it works great, but I can not find any Agent. Source: https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/sfha62 Adabas The other database to integrate is Adabas (from Software AG). From what I learned from Google, I see there was a Partner Agent for VCS 4.1 MP1, but only for Solaris on SPARC or Solaris on x86. But no Linux. That is confirmed in the lit of Partner Agents in the "vcs_agent_support_matrix" spreadsheet (only Solaris on SPARC or x86, but no Linux). I also found a Symantec Article about an issue with the Adabas Agent for VCS 6.1 on SPARC/Solaris, but I can not find the Linux Agent on SORT. According to this Symantec Article the Agent should be released under the STEP (Symantec™ Technology Enabled Program). Source: https://support.symantec.com/en_US/article.TECH60665.html But when I look on SORT at the Agents for STEP, no Agents are listed. Source: https://sort.symantec.com/agents/detail/1142 The manufacturer, Software AG, also has a Wiki page dedicated to Adabas with VCS. But no info regarding the Agent. Source: https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/pwiki/-/wiki/Main/Using+Veritas+to+Enable+Adabas+High+Availability Any tips or links to the correct Agents? Thanks in advance, Sander FiersSolved1.1KViews0likes2Comments
Process Agent
Hi all, I have configured SQL service group. I need a restart 1C application server after failover accours. For this purpose I will use script. The script will done 1 time after service group become online. I think process agent can help me. For test and understand how work proces agent I create easy bat script: { echo Hello > File.txt } When I do online for agent I see script is done (file File.txt is created) but the agent do not became online. I think script have to send any variable to VCS that VCS can know started programm is "UP". Do I correct understand situation and if YES what script must return to VCS?Solved1.7KViews0likes6Commentsvcsencrypt to use with esx hosts
Hi I am facing the following problem. I am using the java console to configure a vmware disk agent. Before I open the console I encrypt the password of my esxi hosts (e.g: test2000) with the following command: vcsencrypt -agent This asks me the password twice: eg: test2000 And this throws me for example the following passord:HRNpUVoTIvJTmPLtQVkTSvKPS After adding a vmwre disk to a clustered systems, and when I configure the EXI details: 172.29.165.11 root=HRNpUVoTIvJTmPLtQVkTSvKPS 172.29.165.12root=HRNpUVoTIvJTmPLtQVkTSvKPS And after enable it, the resource remains with an interrogation (?) and it cannot be "Probed" However, when I use the Symantec HA tab and I configure for example a generic service with another vmware disk, and after the installation successfully finishes I look up to the password, I copy it and put it the the prevoius resource and it works perfectly... What I am doing wrong?Solved1.7KViews0likes3CommentsIntegrating SAP with VCS 6.2 (on Oracle Linux 6.5)
Hi, I was wondering if someone has some additional information regarding how to setup my cluster... I have both VCS (inclusing Storage Foundation) and Linux knowledge. I do however have no background in SAP. And as SAP is a very complex product, I can not see the forest because of the trees... Setup 2 node (active-passive) cluster of Oracle Linux 6.5 nodes. Veritas Storage Foundation HA (= VxVM + DMP + VCS). Oracle 11.2 as database. SAP ECC 6.0 Apart from the Installation & Configuration guide on the SAP NetWeaver Agent, I found little information about implementing SAP in VCS. Source: "Symantec™ High Availability Agent for SAP NetWeaver Installation and Configuration Guide for Linux 6.2". But unfortunately I can not find a howto, guide or whatever from Symantec, nor from the usual Google attempts. My customer is however also not very SAP knowledged. From what I understand it is a very basic SAP setup, if not the simplest. They are using SAP ECC6.0 and an Oracle 11.2 database. So I assume they are just having a Central Instance and the Database. After some Google resource, I found out that SAP ECC 6.0 is technically a SAP NetWeaver 7.0. On Symantec SORT, I found 3 versions of SAP NetWeaver. I downloaded the first one, as the descripton says: SAP NetWeaver SAP NetWeaver 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4 SAP NetWeaver 7.1, 7.3 Agent: SAPNW04 5.0.16.0 Application version(s): SAP R/3 4.6, R/3 Enterprise 4.7, NW04, NW04s, ERP/ECC 5.0/6.0, SCM/APO 4.1/5.0/5.1/7.0, SRM 4.0/5.0/7.0, CRM 4.0/5.0/7.0 Source: https://sort.symantec.com/agents/detail/1077 SAP ERP 2005 = SAP NetWeaver 2004s (BASIS 7.00) = ECC 6.0 Source: http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/difference-bet-ecc-60-sap-r3-47/ Source: http://www.fasttrackph.com/sap-ecc-6-0/ Source : http://wulibi.blogspot.be/2010/03/what-is-sap-ecc-60-in-brief.html Currently I have this setup unfinshed: Installed & configured Storage Foundation HA on both nodes. Instaled the ACC Libraries on both nodes. see: https://sort.symantec.com/agents/detail/1183 Installed the SAP NetWeaver Agent on both nodes. see: https://sort.symantec.com/agents/detail/1077 Configured next to the CusterServiceGroup, 3 Service Groups: SG_sap the shared storage Resources: DiskGroup + Volumes + Mount. the SAPNW Agent Resource. SG_oracle the shared storage Resources: DiskGroup + Volumes + Mount the Oracle Agent Resurce. SG_nfs still empty. SAPNW Agent. SAP instance type The SAPNW Agent documentation states: The agent supports the following SAP instance types: Central Services Instance Application Server Instance Enqueue Replication Server Instance. Source: "Symantec™ High Availability Agent for SAP NetWeaver Installation and Configuration Guide for Linux 6.2" But I guess the SAP ECC 6.0 has them all in one central instance, right? So I only need one SAPNW Agent. How is the SAP installed: only ABAP only Java add-in (both ABAP and Java). Source: "Symantec™ High Availability Agent for SAP NetWeaver Installation and Configuration Guide for Linux 6.2" I have no idea. How can I find this out? InstName Attribute Another thing is the InstName Attribute. This also does not correspond with the information I have. My SAP intance is T30. So the syntax is correct more or less, but it isn't listed below. Which is important also to decide on the value for the ProcMon Attribute The SAPSID and InstName form a unique identifier that can identify the processes running for a particular instance. Some examples of SAP instances are given as follows: InstName = InstType DVEBMGS00 = SAP Application Server - ABAP (Primary) D01 SAP = Application Server - ABAP (Additional) ASCS02 = SAP Central Services - ABAP J03 = SAP Application Server - Java SCS04 = SAP Central Services - Java ERS05 = SAP Enqueue Replication Server SMDA97 = Solution Manager Diagnostics Agent Source: "Symantec™ High Availability Agent for SAP NetWeaver Installation and Configuration Guide for Linux 6.2" In the listing of the required attributes it is also stated. However, the default value is CENTRAL. I guess this is correct in my case? InstName Attribute: An identifier that classifies and describes the SAP server instance type. Valid values are: APPSERV: SAP Application Server ENQUEUE: SAP Central Services ENQREP: Enqueue Replication Server SMDAGENT: Solution Manager Diagnostics Agent SAPSTARTSRV: SAPSTARTSRV Process Note: The value of this attribute is not case-sensitive. Type and dimension: string-scalar Default: APPSERV Example: ENQUEUE EnqSrvResName Attribute A required attribute is the EnqSrvResName Attribute. The documentation says this should be the Resource Name for the SAP Central Instance. But I am assuming I only have a SAP Central Instance. So I guess I should use the name of my SAP Agent Resouce from my SAP Service Group? EnqSrvResName Attribute: The name of the VCS resource for SAP Central Services (A)SCS Instance. This attribute is used by Enqueue and Enqueue Replication Server. Using this attribute the Enqueue server queries the Enqueue Replication Server resource state while determining the fail over target and vice a versa. Type and dimension: string-scalar Default: No default value Example: SAP71-PI1SCS_sap Source: "Symantec™ High Availability Agent for SAP NetWeaver Installation and Configuration Guide for Linux 6.2" Is anyone able to help me out? Thanks in advance.Solved2.4KViews2likes9Comments
VMwareDisks status unknown
Dear all, I add a VMwareDisks resource for a RDM volume, but I find SOMETIME the VMwareDisks show as status unknown and fail to online the volume. I try to add the RDM disk from vCenter manually. However the disk paths suppose to be [datastore] host1/host1_3.vmdk but it change to[datastore] host1/host1_5.vmdk automatically after apply the setting. The main.cf settiing as follow: VMwareDisks rdm_vol ( ESXDetails = { "10.10.11.5" = "root=xxxxx", "10.10.11.6" = "root=xxxxx", "10.10.11.7" = "root=xxxxx" } DiskPaths = { "RDM:6000C294-6ed4-458c-18a9-53ec700ea825:[datastore] host1/host1_3.vmdk" = "2:2" } ) IsVMHAEnabled = true VMRegisterWait = 120 vCenter 6.0 RedHat 6.5 VCS 6.2.1 As the disk path change to another name, VCS fail to monitor the RDM. Would anyone provide some suggestions about it. ThanksSolved1KViews0likes1CommentListener resource remain faulted
Hello, we are doing some failure tests for a customer. We have VCS 6.2 running on solaris 10. We have an Oracle database and of course the listener associated with it. We try to simulate different kind of failures. One of them is to kill the listener. In this situation the cluster observes that the listener has died, and it fails over the service to the other node. BUT the listener resource will remain in FAULTED state on the original node, and the group to which belongs will be in OFFLINE FAULTED state. In this situation if something goes wrong on the second node the service will not fail back to the original one until we manually run hagrp -clear. Is there anything we can do to fix this? (to have the clear done automatically) Here are some lines from the log: 2015/03/30 17:26:10 VCS ERROR V-16-2-13067 (node2p) Agent is calling clean for resource(ora_listener-res) because the resource became OFFLINE unexpectedly, on its own. 2015/03/30 17:26:11 VCS INFO V-16-2-13068 (node2p) Resource(ora_listener-res) - clean completed successfully. 2015/03/30 17:26:11 VCS INFO V-16-1-10307 Resource ora_listener-res (Owner: Unspecified, Group: oracle_rg) is offline on node2p (Not initiated by VCS) in these it says that clean for the resource has completed successfully, but the resource is still faulted. but if I run hares -clear manually, the the fault goes away. 20150330-173628:root@node1p:~# hares -state ora_listener-res #Resource Attribute System Value ora_listener-res State node1p ONLINE ora_listener-res State node2p FAULTED 20150330-173636:root@node1p:~# hares -clear ora_listener-res 20150330-173653:root@node1p:~# hares -state ora_listener-res #Resource Attribute System Value ora_listener-res State node1p ONLINE ora_listener-res State node2p OFFLINE 20150330-173655:root@node1p:~#Solved3.4KViews0likes5Comments
High Availability Agents - Agent Pack - 1Q2016 release
Veritas High Availability Agent Pack 1Q 2016is now available on SORT:https://sort.veritas.com/agents. Application Agents Added support for JBoss 8.x and 9.x. The JBoss Application Server 8.0 and later releases are now known as WildFly. Added support for Infomatica 9.5.1 on the AIX, Linux, and Solaris operating systems. Added support for SAP HANA SPS11. Replication Agents Enhanced EMC SRDF/SRDFSnap agent to support TimeFinder Snap and TimeFinder Clone in the CVM environment. Enhanced EMC SRDF/SRDFSnap agent to support CVM/CFS (SFRAC) on the Solaris 11 SPARC operating system. Enhanced the HTC agent support on the Solaris x86 operating system. Enhanced the HP 3PAR RemoteCopy agent to support on the Solaris 11 SPARC operating system. Enhanced the HP 3PAR RemoteCopy agent to support in the CFS environment on the AIX, Linux, and Solaris operating systems. Added a new attribute known as VCSResLock, which ensures the serialized management in case of a parallel application on the AIX, Linux, and Solaris operating systems. Important Fixes IBM WebSphere agent Filter process pattern is updated in agent to find the appropriate WebSphere process. IBM Informix Dynamic Server In the Solaris non-global zone, the agent now monitors the process whose PPID is the PID of the zone scheduler process. Updated agent start operation, the oninit –yw command is used to start the Informix server. Updated agent stop operation, the onshutdown.sh script is used to stop the Informix server. Hitachi TrueCopy; HP XP Continuous Access Updated agent to rescan all slave nodes before importing the shared DiskGroup during online. If LinkMonitor attribute is set to 2, the agent logs messages when the state of the Hitachi TrueCopy instance changes from PAIR to NON-PAIR in every monitor cycle. AllowAutoFailoverInterval functionality, which allows failover even if the SplitTakeover attribute is set to 0 in case FENCE level NEVER, is now supported in the GCO environment.