Defining the secondary node  Defining the failover policy for the secondary node

Chapter 14: Configuring Adaptive Server for Failover on SGI IRIX

Defining the failover policies for the primary node

From the GUI

  1. Select Tasks from the menu bar.

  2. Select Failover Policies.

  3. Select Define a Failover Policy and complete the following fields:

    Field

    Sub field

    Sample value

    Description

    Failover Policy

    pri_staying_afloat

    The name of the failover policy

    Script

    ordered

    The name of an existing failover script. Two scripts are provided by FailSafe: ordered and round-robin

    Failback

    Controlled

    Value passed to the failover script. Either Auto_Failback or Controlled_Failback with optional attributes of Auto_Recovery or InPlace_Recovery as well as Critical_RG and Node_Failures_Only.

    Recovery

    In Place

    The recovery attribute: Let FailSafe Choose, Automatic, or In Place.

    Critical Resource Group

    Unchecked

    Allows monitor failure recovery to succeed even when there are resource group release failures

    Node Failures Only

    Unchecked

    Controls fail over on resource monitoring failures

    Other Attributes

    N/A

    Determined by the user-defined failover scripts

    Ordered Nodes in Failover Domains

    N/A

    The ordered list of nodes on which a given resource group can be allocated

    #1

    MONEY1

    Name of primary node in cluster

    #2

    PERSONNEL1

    Name of secondary node in cluster

  4. For the Nodes to Add, click the arrow. Select Ordered Nodes in Failover Domains:

    #1 enter the name of the primary node in the cluster, such as MONEY1, click Add.

    #2 enter the name of the secondary node in the cluster, such as PERSONNEL1, click Add.

  5. Click OK.

From the command line

From the command line, enter the following:

cluster_mgr –f pri_failover_policy_def




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