Chapter 14: Configuring Adaptive Server for Failover on SGI IRIX

Defining the file system resource for the primary node

Select Define a Resource and complete the following fields:

Field	Sample value	Description
Resource Type	file system	The type of resource to define. The FailSafe system includes predefined resource types; you can define your own resource types as well. See your SGI documentation for information.
Resource	/vol1	The name of the resource to define. For file system resource types, this is the mount point.

Click Next. Enter the type-specific attributes in the following fields:

Field	Sample value	Description
Volume_name	x1v1	The name of the xlv volume associated with the file system, as defined previously
Mount_options	rw	The mount options to be used for mounting the file system, which are the mount options that must be passed to the –o option of the mount (1M) command. The list of available options is provided in fstab(4).
Monitoring_level	2	The monitoring level to be used for the file system. A monitoring level of 1 specifies to check whether the file system exists in /etc/mtab; level 2 is a more intrusive check that is more reliable.

Select Add or Remove Dependencies for a Resource Definition. Enter the following type-specific attributes by clicking the down arrow in each field:

Field	Sub field	Sample value	Description
Resource Type		file system	Select a value from the pull-down list.
Resource		/vol1	The list of values is displayed for the Resource Type.
List of Dependencies:		N/A	Information line.
	Dependency Type	volume	Similar to Resource Type.
	Dependency Name	x1v1	Similar to Resource, the list of values is limited based on the Dependency Type.

From the command line, enter the following:

cluster_mgr –f pri_fs_resource_def