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LB Health Check Parameters List
Application Recovery Kits » LB Health Check Kit Administration Guide » LB Health Check Parameters List
The configurable parameters list for each script is below. Parameter Description HC_TIMEOUT Set this parameter as the connection timeout value from the Load Balancer. If there is no connection for the specified number of seconds, it is…
Creating an LB Health Check
LifeKeeper for Windows in a Cloud Environment » LifeKeeper for Windows Step by Step Guide for Google Cloud » Creating an LB Health Check
The LB Health Check provides a mechanism to receive and respond to a health check probe for instances to be balanced by a load balancer in a cloud environment.
LB Health Check Message Catalog
Application Recovery Kits » LB Health Check Kit Administration Guide » LB Health Check Message Catalog
Use Control F to search for a specific error code in each catalog. To search for any error code, select the Search button at the top right of the screen. Code Severity …
Creating an LB Health Check Resource
LifeKeeper for Windows in a Cloud Environment » LifeKeeper for Windows Step by Step Guide for Google Cloud » Creating an LB Health Check » Creating an LB Health Check Resource
!Please be sure to verify the following are in place in order to minimize issues moving forward with the creation of an LB Health Check resource: 1. A Windows firewall rule to allow access to the ILB port (12345) 2. A Google Firewall rule that lists the address…
LB Health Check Kit Administration Guide
Application Recovery Kits » LB Health Check Kit Administration Guide
Overview The LB Health Check Kit provides a mechanism to listen and respond to health check probes to load balancing target instances of load balancers in cloud environments. This document describes the details of the operation of the LB Health Check Kit. Please…
Health Check Timeouts
LifeKeeper for Windows Technical Documentation » Troubleshooting » Health Check Timeouts
SYMPTOM: Occasionally, LifeKeeper for Windows is installed on a system that is not performing well. There are tell-tale signs of abnormal system behavior that LifeKeeper for Windows can detect such as the health check processes not starting or ending properly. The most…
Quorum Parameters List
LifeKeeper for Windows Technical Documentation » Configuration » LifeKeeper Quorum » Quorum Parameters List
The table below lists the Quorum parameters. These values are tuned by editing the %LKROOT%/etc/default/LifeKeeper configuration file. Parameter Name Meaning Setting Value Default Value When to Apply Notes QUORUM_MODE…
Upgrading Generic Application Kit for Load Balancer Health Checks to LB Health Check Kit
Application Recovery Kits » LB Health Check Kit Administration Guide » Upgrading Generic Application Kit for Load Balancer Health Checks to LB Health Check Kit
*The LifeKeeper LB (Load Balancer) Health Check Kit replaces the Generic Load Balancer (GenLB) Recovery Kit. The GenLB recovery kit was a collection of action scripts available for download for 8.9.2 to be used with a generic application (gen/app) resource. The GenLB…
Restore and Health Check Account Failures
LifeKeeper for Windows Technical Documentation » Troubleshooting » Restore and Health Check Account Failures
Symptom Some recovery kits monitor protected resources by performing query operations that simulate user and/or client activity. This provides LifeKeeper for Windows with accurate status information about a protected application or service. It also requires that a…
Recovery Kit for EC2™ Parameters List
Application Recovery Kits » Recovery Kit for EC2™ Administration Guide » Recovery Kit for EC2™ Parameters List
The table below lists the Recovery Kit for EC2™ parameters. These values are set by adding them to the %LKROOT%\etc\default\LifeKeeper configuration file. Because none of the components of the Recovery Kit for EC2™ are memory resident, changes to these particular…
Recovery Kit for Route 53™ Parameters List
Application Recovery Kits » LifeKeeper Recovery Kit for Route 53™ Introduction » Recovery Kit for Route 53™ Parameters List
The table below lists and explains the tunable values that are available for modifying the behavior of the Recovery Kit for Route 53™. These values are set by adding the %LKROOT%\etc\default\LifeKeeper configuration file. Because none of the components of the Route…
Safety Check
LifeKeeper for Windows Technical Documentation » Introduction » Communication Paths » Safety Check
When all the communications paths on a server are DEAD, LifeKeeper for Windows assumes that the paired system is DEAD (or down) and attempts to fail over. However, LifeKeeper for Windows performs a safety check to ensure that the failure occurred in the server rather…
Modifying Quick Check Interval, Deep Check Interval and Local Recovery
Application Recovery Kits » LifeKeeper Microsoft Internet Information Services Recovery Kit Introduction » IIS Hierarchy Administration » Modifying Quick Check Interval, Deep Check Interval and Local Recovery
The default values for the quick check interval, deep check interval and local recovery may be modified after the resource has been placed under LifeKeeper protection by using the LifeKeeper GUI. To change the default values, right-click on the resource and select the…
Disabling the FTP Deep Check Process
Application Recovery Kits » LifeKeeper Microsoft Internet Information Services Recovery Kit Introduction » IIS Hierarchy Administration » Disabling the FTP Deep Check Process
If the protected FTP site does not permit anonymous logins and you prefer not to use a login script as described above, you may disable the deep check process for a particular LifeKeeper protected resource. Change directory to the LifeKeeper “bin” folder…
Changing PostgreSQL Related Parameters (Active System, Standby System)
LifeKeeper for Windows in a Cloud Environment » Microsoft Azure Guide » PostgreSQL Specific Environment » Changing PostgreSQL Related Parameters (Active System, Standby System)
Add PostgreSQL runtime parameters In the Service Control Manager, stop postgresql-x64-11. Run regedit from the command prompt. Navigate the following hierarchy in the left pane and open…
Displaying List of Protected File Shares
LifeKeeper for Windows Technical Documentation » User Guide » Maintenance Tasks » Displaying List of Protected File Shares
To display the list of file shares associated with a protected file share resource from the LifeKeeper GUI, right-click on the File Share resource (on the right-hand side of the LifeKeeper GUI) and select Properties, then select the Protected Share List tab. …
Creating a File Share List Resource Hierarchy
LifeKeeper for Windows Technical Documentation » Administration » Working with Resource Hierarchies » Creating Resource Hierarchies » Creating a File Share List Resource Hierarchy
The Windows File Manager function allows you to define file shares. The File Share List Resource type allows you to create a resource that includes one or more of those file shares. Criteria for File Share List Resources Not all file shares are available to be…
LANMAN Name May Be Seen Twice in Browse List
LifeKeeper for Windows Technical Documentation » Troubleshooting » LANMAN Name May Be Seen Twice in Browse List
Symptom After creating a LANMAN resource, the LANMAN name may be seen twice in the browse list. Solution One of these entries is an unusable Workstation record. Please disregard this entry and use the other LANMAN Server name.
Creating/Extending/Modifying a Resource
Application Recovery Kits » LB Health Check Kit Administration Guide » Creating/Extending/Modifying a Resource
Creating a Resource Hierarchy To create an LB Health Check resource, complete the following steps: Start the Create Resource Wizard as described in Creating Resource Hierarchies. Select Backup Server. Select LB Health Check as a Recovery Kit. …
Creating common resources
LifeKeeper for Windows in a Cloud Environment » Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Guide » Building HA Clusters with LifeKeeper for Windows » Creating common resources
Create a common resource for use with both the Oracle ARK and the PostgreSQL ARK. Create an LB Health Check Resource In the LifeKeeper GUI, create an LB Health Check resource. From the menu bar, click Edit > Server > Create Resource Hierarchy and follow the prompts…
LifeKeeper Specific Configuration Considerations on Google Cloud
LifeKeeper for Windows in a Cloud Environment » LifeKeeper for Windows Step by Step Guide for Google Cloud » LifeKeeper Specific Configuration Considerations on Google Cloud
Introduction to the Load Balancer In a cluster environment, requests from a client must be sent to the node which becomes newly active after a failover. LifeKeeper normally handles routing by using address resolution protocol (ARP). However, since the routing by ARP…
Operations Overview
Application Recovery Kits » LB Health Check Kit Administration Guide » Operations Overview
Bringing a Resource In Service (restore) Start the LB Health Check resource in the following order: The restore script uses the specified resource ID to determine if the associated daemon process has already been started. If it has already started, the restore…
Configuration using a load balancer in AWS
LifeKeeper for Windows in a Cloud Environment » Amazon Web Services Guide » Configuration using a load balancer in AWS
Overview When configuring LifeKeeper on AWS, typically the Recovery Kit for EC2 or Recovery Kit for Route 53 is used. Both use the AWS CLI to control AWS services; however, there are some cases where these kits cannot be used. You do not want to make configuration…
Building an HA Cluster with LifeKeeper for Windows
LifeKeeper for Windows in a Cloud Environment » Microsoft Azure Guide » Building an HA Cluster with LifeKeeper for Windows
Install LifeKeeper for Windodws (Active System, Standby System) Contact SIOS to purchase LifeKeeper for Windows or obtain the evaluation version of the software. Email: sales@us.sios.com US: +1.617.245.6955 or toll-free (US) 866.318.0108 International:…
Azure Specific Settings
LifeKeeper for Windows in a Cloud Environment » Microsoft Azure Guide » Azure Specific Settings
Installing the Internal Load Balancer (ILB) Azure cannot recognize a [VIP protected by IP resource] in an Azure VNET. As a result, network communication using [VIP protected by IP resource] normally used in LifeKeeper for Windows cannot be performed. In this…
OCI Specific Settings
LifeKeeper for Windows in a Cloud Environment » Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Guide » OCI Specific Settings
Installing the Network Load Balancer (NLB) OCI cannot recognize a [VIP protected by IP resource] in an OCI VCN. As a result, network communication using [VIP protected by IP resource] normally used in LifeKeeper for Windows cannot be performed. In this configuration,…
Creating a Load Balancer
LifeKeeper for Windows in a Cloud Environment » LifeKeeper for Windows Step by Step Guide for Google Cloud » Creating a Load Balancer
Create the Cloud Load Balancer on Google Cloud as described in Introduction to the Load Balancer, in the following order. The client is able to communicate with the VM instances which are detected as healthy by the health check by connecting to the load balancer…
Application Recovery Kits
Application Recovery Kits
LifeKeeper for Windows Application Recovery Kits (ARKs) include tools and utilities that allow LifeKeeper for Windows to manage and control a specific application. The following optional recovery kits are available with this release of LifeKeeper for…
Protecting a PostgreSQL Database (Active Node)
LifeKeeper for Windows in a Cloud Environment » Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Guide » PostgreSQL Specific Environment » Protecting a PostgreSQL Database (Active Node)
Create a PostgreSQL Resource Hierarchy It is assumed that the PostgreSQL service has stopped on both the active and the standby node at the beginning of this section. (It should be stopped when the previous section is completed.) Log in to the active node…
Creating a load balancer
LifeKeeper for Windows in a Cloud Environment » Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Guide » Building a Virtual Environment in OCI » Creating a load balancer
There are two types of load balancers in OCI, but in this document we will use a network load balancer. The IP address of this network load balancer will also be used as the virtual IP address to be set later, which will be the access point for the protected…
Protecting Oracle
LifeKeeper for Windows in a Cloud Environment » Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Guide » Oracle Specific Environment » Protecting Oracle
Creating Oracle Resource Hierarchies (Active Node) Log in to the Windows OS on the active node (SIOS20-NODE1) as SIOS20-AD\lkadmin. Launch the PowerShell for administrators and start the stopped Windows Service related to Oracle Database with the following…
Protecting a PostgreSQL Database (Active System)
LifeKeeper for Windows in a Cloud Environment » Microsoft Azure Guide » PostgreSQL Specific Environment » Protecting a PostgreSQL Database (Active System)
Create a PostgreSQL Resource Hierarchy Log in to the Windows OS on the active system (sios20lknode01) as SIOS20\lkadmin. Launch the LifeKeeper GUI and log in as SIOS20\lkadmin. Click the Create Resource Hierarchy icon (green + sign) and follow the prompts and…
Configuring Firewall Rules
LifeKeeper for Windows in a Cloud Environment » LifeKeeper for Windows Step by Step Guide for Google Cloud » Configuration on Google Cloud » Configuring Firewall Rules
Configure the following 4 types of firewall rules. Firewall Rules List Name Role lk-allow-user-login To connect to the client node from a local PC using RDP. lk-health-check To allow the communication for the load balancer…
Protecting Oracle
LifeKeeper for Windows in a Cloud Environment » Microsoft Azure Guide » Oracle Specific Environment » Protecting Oracle
Creating Oracle Resource Hierarchies (Active System) Log in to the Windows OS on the active system (sios20lknode01) as SIOS20\lkadmin. Launch the LifeKeeper GUI and log in with SIOS20\lkadmin. Click Create Resource Hierarchy (green + sign) to create an…
Creating a Load Balancer
LifeKeeper for Windows in a Cloud Environment » Microsoft Azure Guide » Building a Virtual Environment in Azure » Creating a Load Balancer
Azure load balancers have external and internal load balancers, but for the purpose of this document, we will use an internal load balancer. The IP address of this internal load balancer is also used as a virtual IP address later, making it an access point for…
Troubleshooting
LifeKeeper for Windows Technical Documentation » Troubleshooting
The topics in this section contain important information about known issues and restrictions offering possible workarounds and/or solutions. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Antivirus…
Adjusting Recovery Kit for Route 53™ Tunable Values
Application Recovery Kits » LifeKeeper Recovery Kit for Route 53™ Introduction » Recovery Kit for Route 53™ Configuration » Adjusting Recovery Kit for Route 53™ Tunable Values
For the parameters that can be configured in the Recovery Kit for Route 53™, refer to the Parameters List.
Symptoms and Solutions
Application Recovery Kits » LifeKeeper Microsoft Internet Information Services Recovery Kit Introduction » IIS Troubleshooting » Symptoms and Solutions
SYMPTOM Identical sites are created on both the primary and the secondary servers, but the sites are not displayed in the Site Name list in the Create Resource Wizard. SOLUTION Check that the same optional parameters are specified and their values are also the…
Preparing for Installation of Oracle (Standby System)
LifeKeeper for Windows in a Cloud Environment » LifeKeeper for Windows Step by Step Guide for Google Cloud » Installing and Configuring Oracle » Preparing for Installation of Oracle (Standby System)
In order to install and configure Oracle on the standby system, the IP resource and volume resource must be configured to be active on the standby system (lk-node02). Log in to lk-node01 as LKDOMAIN\lkadmin. In the Service Control Manager, stop all services whose…
AWS ECC Resource Monitoring and Configuration
Application Recovery Kits » Recovery Kit for EC2™ Administration Guide » Recovery Kit for EC2™ Configuration » AWS ECC Resource Monitoring and Configuration
Route Table scenario (Backend Cluster): The recovery kit uses AWS CLI to perform the monitoring of the Route Table settings to enable an access from clients within the VPC to the protected IP resources. The recovery kit ensures that the target of the IP resources for…
Adjusting Recovery Kit for EC2™ Tunable Values
Application Recovery Kits » Recovery Kit for EC2™ Administration Guide » Recovery Kit for EC2™ Configuration » Adjusting Recovery Kit for EC2™ Tunable Values
For the parameters that can be configured in the Recovery Kit for EC2™, refer to the EC2™ Parameters List.
GUI Network Related – Unknown Host Exception Message Generated During Connection Attempt
LifeKeeper for Windows Technical Documentation » Troubleshooting » GUI Network Related – Unknown Host Exception Message Generated During Connection Attempt
Symptom Unknown Host Exception Message Generated During Connection Attempt. The LifeKeeper GUI Client and Server use Java RMI (Remote Method Invocation) technology to communicate. For RMI to work correctly, the client and server must use resolvable hostname or IP…
Creating a Dependency between a GenLB Resource and an Oracle PDB Resource
LifeKeeper for Windows in a Cloud Environment » LifeKeeper for Windows Step by Step Guide for Google Cloud » Protecting Oracle » Creating a Dependency between a GenLB Resource and an Oracle PDB Resource
Log in to the Windows OS on the active system (lk-node01) as LKDOMAIN\lkadmin. Launch the LifeKeeper GUI and log in as LKDOMAIN\lkadmin. Click the Add Dependency icon. Enter the values as described in the table below: Create Dependency …
DKHEALTHCHECK
LifeKeeper for Windows Technical Documentation » DataKeeper » DataKeeper Administration » DKHEALTHCHECK
DKHealthCheck.exe, found in the \DKTools directory, is a tool that can provide basic mirror status and problem detection of mirror issues. SIOS Support may request that you run this tool as part of the Support process. Note: DKHEALTHCHECK output is captured by…
Performing CHKDSK on a protected volume
LifeKeeper for Windows Technical Documentation » User Guide » Maintenance Tasks » Performing CHKDSK on a protected volume
Disk volumes that are under LifeKeeper protection do not have automatic boot-time CHKDSK performed on them. Administrators should occasionally perform CHKDSK on their volumes manually. To do this, follow these instructions: Take all resources that depend on the…
Storage Mode
LifeKeeper for Windows Technical Documentation » Configuration » LifeKeeper Quorum » Storage Mode
With this mode each node writes information about itself to a shared storage device on a regular basis and periodically reads the information written by the other nodes. A cluster is considered to have quorum consensus when a majority of nodes are able to access the…
ISBREAKUSERREQUESTED
LifeKeeper for Windows Technical Documentation » DataKeeper » DataKeeper Administration » Using EMCMD with SIOS DataKeeper » ISBREAKUSERREQUESTED
EMCMD ISBREAKUSERREQUESTED This command checks whether a mirror state change is a result of a user request. The parameters are: This should be the source system. The drive letter of the volume that you want to check.…
Tunable Settings for the PostgreSQL Recovery Kit
Application Recovery Kits » LifeKeeper for Windows PostgreSQL Recovery Kit Introduction » Troubleshooting » Tunable Settings for the PostgreSQL Recovery Kit
The PostgreSQL Recovery Kit provides tunable environment variables to help customize resource protection in certain scenarios. To change the values of these variables, edit the file %LKROOT%\etc\default\LifeKeeper. No processes need to be restarted for the new settings…
Available Amazon S3-compatible Object Storage
LifeKeeper for Windows Technical Documentation » Configuration » LifeKeeper Quorum » Storage Mode » Available Amazon S3-compatible Object Storage
When storage is selected for the Quorum mode and aws_s3 for QWK_STORAGE_TYPE in the Quorum/Witness function provided by LifeKeeper, Amazon S3-compatible object storage can be used. Requirements All of the following requirements must be satisfied: Object storage…
ISPOTENTIALMIRRORVOL
LifeKeeper for Windows Technical Documentation » DataKeeper » DataKeeper Administration » Using EMCMD with SIOS DataKeeper » ISPOTENTIALMIRRORVOL
EMCMD ISPOTENTIALMIRRORVOL This command checks to determine if a volume is a candidate for mirroring. The command may only be run on the local system. The parameters are: This should be the local system. The drive letter of the…
LifeKeeper for Windows Step by Step Guide for Google Cloud
LifeKeeper for Windows in a Cloud Environment » LifeKeeper for Windows Step by Step Guide for Google Cloud
LifeKeeper for Windows is an HA cluster software which is developed and delivered by SIOS Technology, Inc.. DataKeeper is a data replication software which is developed and delivered by SIOS Technology, Inc. DataKeeper provides an integrated data mirroring capability…
Registry Entries
LifeKeeper for Windows Technical Documentation » DataKeeper » DataKeeper Administration » Registry Entries
The following registry entries are associated with the SIOS DataKeeper service or driver and can be viewed and edited using Regedt32. *No values in any DataKeeper registry key should be modified unless they are listed here. *Lowercase volume letters for jobs in…
How to Obtain a License
LifeKeeper for Windows Installation Guide » Installing LifeKeeper for Windows » About LifeKeeper Licensing » How to Obtain a License
Obtaining and Installing the License Activating Your License The final screen of the InstallShield installation utility displays the Host ID of your server. The Host ID, along with the Entitlement ID (Authorization Code) that was provided with your LifeKeeper for…
Log in to virtual machines (bastion server, active node, standby node)
LifeKeeper for Windows in a Cloud Environment » Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Guide » Configuring OS » Log in to virtual machines (bastion server, active node, standby node)
In the configuration described in this guide, a Remote Desktop connection (RDP) is made from an external device (e.g., your PC) to sios20-bastion, which in turn makes an RDP connection to the cluster nodes, sios20-node1 and sios20-node2. The cluster nodes cannot be…
Shared memory is not cleared if lbhcd continues to be used with lkstop -f
LifeKeeper for Windows Technical Documentation » Troubleshooting » Shared memory is not cleared if lbhcd continues to be used with lkstop -f
Symptom Currently lbhcd is running even after lkstop -f because it needs to respond to the Load Balancer Health probe. However, if it is used as is after lkstart, shared memory is not cleared (for example, !lkstop flag is not cleared) and it causes various issues in…
LifeKeeper Microsoft Internet Information Services Recovery Kit Introduction
Application Recovery Kits » LifeKeeper Microsoft Internet Information Services Recovery Kit Introduction
The LifeKeeper Microsoft IIS Recovery Kit extends your LifeKeeper for Windows product by adding specific protection to Internet servers. The LifeKeeper Microsoft IIS Recovery Kit continuously monitors the health of your Internet servers, and if a problem arises,…
Creating a Generic Application Resource Hierarchy
LifeKeeper for Windows Technical Documentation » Administration » Working with Resource Hierarchies » Creating Resource Hierarchies » Creating a Generic Application Resource Hierarchy
*Note: For ksh only, in order for shell scripts to be used in a GenApp resource, you have to make them executable using chmod +x command on each of the scripts. This must be done before you attempt to create the GenApp resource. !Note: For ksh only, the chmod command…
CREATEMIRROR
LifeKeeper for Windows Technical Documentation » DataKeeper » DataKeeper Administration » Using EMCMD with SIOS DataKeeper » CREATEMIRROR
EMCMD CREATEMIRROR [options] This command creates a mirror between two machines, using the same drive letter on each. The parameters are: This is the IP address of the source system (see Note below). This is the drive letter…
PostgreSQL Specific Environment
LifeKeeper for Windows in a Cloud Environment » Microsoft Azure Guide » PostgreSQL Specific Environment
Install and Configure PostgreSQL Creating a Mirror Volume Resource Hierarchy Changing PostgreSQL Related Parameters PostgreSQL Database Protection PostgreSQL Connection Confirmation
Creating a DNS Resource Hierarchy
LifeKeeper for Windows Technical Documentation » Administration » Working with Resource Hierarchies » Creating Resource Hierarchies » Creating a DNS Resource Hierarchy
The DNS Recovery Kit provides a mechanism to create, update, and manage a DNS A record and associated PTR record for a virtual server name. The DNS resource allows the administrator to configure the managed virtual server name and also the IP address it will be…
Creating an instance (bastion stone server, active system, standby system)
LifeKeeper for Windows in a Cloud Environment » Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Guide » Building a Virtual Environment in OCI » Creating an instance (bastion stone server, active system, standby system)
Create an instance to be used in this environment. The creation process is the same for the bastion server (also used as a client), active nodes, and standby nodes, but some of the configuration values are different. Be careful to enter the appropriate values for the…
Creating a Virtual Cloud Network
LifeKeeper for Windows in a Cloud Environment » Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Guide » Building a Virtual Environment in OCI » Creating a Virtual Cloud Network
Create a virtual cloud network (VCN) to use in this environment. Select [≡] > Networking > Virtual cloud network. Select the compartment sios20-c created in the previous step in Compartment, then click Create VCN. Enter the following value in the…
Recovering From a LifeKeeper for Windows Server Failure in a 1 × 1 Configuration
LifeKeeper for Windows Technical Documentation » Troubleshooting » Recovering From a LifeKeeper for Windows Server Failure in a 1 × 1 Configuration
If you uninstall LifeKeeper on one of your systems, you will need to follow these steps. If a server in your LifeKeeper for Windows cluster experiences a failure that causes re-installation of the operating system (and thus LifeKeeper for Windows), you will have to…
Dangling Sources
LifeKeeper for Windows Technical Documentation » DataKeeper » DataKeeper Troubleshooting » Known Issues and Workarounds » Dangling Sources
Mirror Broken – Notification Icon Indicates “dangling sources”, GUI shows Red X Solution By default, Windows configures virtual memory so that page files are automatically created on volumes as the Operating System determines is best. This Virtual…
Creating an Oracle Hierarchy
Application Recovery Kits » LifeKeeper Oracle Recovery Kit Introduction » Oracle Resource Configuration Tasks » Creating an Oracle Hierarchy
After you have completed the necessary setup tasks, use the following steps to define the Oracle Server hierarchy to protect your database(s). From the LifeKeeper GUI menu, select Edit, then Server. From the menu, select Create Resource Hierarchy. The Create…
READREGISTRY
LifeKeeper for Windows Technical Documentation » DataKeeper » DataKeeper Administration » Using EMCMD with SIOS DataKeeper » READREGISTRY
EMCMD READREGISTRY This command tells the SIOS DataKeeper driver to re-read its registry settings. The parameters are: This can be either the source system or the target system. The drive letter of the mirror for which you want…
MSSQL
LifeKeeper for Windows Technical Documentation » Introduction » MSSQL
LifeKeeper for Windows Microsoft SQL Server Recovery Kit LifeKeeper for Windows Microsoft SQL Server Application Recovery Kit includes tools and utilities that allow LifeKeeper for Windows to manage and control the Microsoft SQL-based database application. When…
DataKeeper Notification Icon
LifeKeeper for Windows Technical Documentation » DataKeeper » DataKeeper User Guide » How to Replace a LifeKeeper-W Node » DataKeeper Notification Icon
Mirror Status Notification The DataKeeper Notification Icon is an application that will show a summary of your DataKeeper mirrors in the Windows Notification Tray. The icon displayed indicates what conditions have been detected, with the following priority. Error:…
DataKeeper Does Not Support Lowercase Drive Letters as Mirror Endpoint for Jobs
LifeKeeper for Windows Technical Documentation » DataKeeper » DataKeeper Troubleshooting » Known Issues and Workarounds » DataKeeper Does Not Support Lowercase Drive Letters as Mirror Endpoint for Jobs
Lowercase volume letters for jobs in Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\ExtMirr\Parameters\Jobs is not compatible with DataKeeper. If the drive letters become lowercase, they will need to be manually changed to uppercase in the registry. If…
UNLOCKVOLUME
LifeKeeper for Windows Technical Documentation » DataKeeper » DataKeeper Administration » Using EMCMD with SIOS DataKeeper » UNLOCKVOLUME
EMCMD UNLOCKVOLUME This command forces the volume specified to unlock. The parameters are: This can be either the source or the target systems. The drive letter of the volume you want to unlock.
Protecting FTP Sites with Non-Anonymous Login
Application Recovery Kits » LifeKeeper Microsoft Internet Information Services Recovery Kit Introduction » IIS Hierarchy Administration » Protecting FTP Sites with Non-Anonymous Login
The default procedure used to monitor protected FTP sites is to connect to the site and use an anonymous login. This feature is performed by the LifeKeeper deep check process assigned to monitor each FTP site. If your site does not permit an anonymous login, the…
ins_list
LifeKeeper for Windows Technical Documentation » Administration » Man Pages » LCDI Instances » ins_list
ins_list [-d destsys] [-fC] [-R top] [-a appname] [-r typ][-t tag] [-i id] This command prints lines relating to a set of resource instances to standard output. Each line contains all of the current information known about a particular resource instance. Examples of…
LOCKVOLUME
LifeKeeper for Windows Technical Documentation » DataKeeper » DataKeeper Administration » Using EMCMD with SIOS DataKeeper » LOCKVOLUME
EMCMD LOCKVOLUME This command forces an exclusive lock on the volume specified. This call will fail if a process owns open handles into the volume. The parameters are: This can be either the source or the target systems. The…
REGISTERCLUSTERVOLUME
LifeKeeper for Windows Technical Documentation » DataKeeper » DataKeeper Administration » Using EMCMD with SIOS DataKeeper » REGISTERCLUSTERVOLUME
EMCMD REGISTERCLUSTERVOLUME This command is used to register a DataKeeper protected volume in a WSFC cluster. The parameters are: This is the source system of the mirror. The drive letter of the volume you want registered.…
GETRESYNCSTATUS
LifeKeeper for Windows Technical Documentation » DataKeeper » DataKeeper Administration » Using EMCMD with SIOS DataKeeper » GETRESYNCSTATUS
EMCMD GETRESYNCSTATUS This command returns information indicating the overall status of a resync operation. The parameters are: This can only be performed on the Source system. The drive letter of the volume you want to set the…
DROPSNAPSHOT
LifeKeeper for Windows Technical Documentation » DataKeeper » DataKeeper Administration » Using EMCMD with SIOS DataKeeper » DROPSNAPSHOT
EMCMD DROPSNAPSHOT [ …] This command will notify DataKeeper to lock the volume and clean up the snapshot files that it created. The parameters are: This is the system containing the snapshot. This is the drive letter of the…
ins_setchkint
LifeKeeper for Windows Technical Documentation » Administration » Man Pages » LCDI Instances » ins_setchkint
ins_setchkint [-d destsys] -t tag -c {q=quick|d=deep} -v interval This command modifies the quick check or deep check interval for the resource specified by the tag name “-t”. The interval must be entered in seconds. Examples: To change the quick check…
RESYNCMIRROR
LifeKeeper for Windows Technical Documentation » DataKeeper » DataKeeper Administration » Using EMCMD with SIOS DataKeeper » RESYNCMIRROR
EMCMD RESYNCMIRROR [] This command forces the mirror to be fully resynced. The parameters are: This is the source system name. This is the drive letter of the mirror that should be resynced. This is the IP…
QSP Resource Properties
Application Recovery Kits » Quick Service Protection Recovery Kit » QSP Resource Properties
Each QSP resource has the following properties: Protected Service Service Name The service name and display name of the Windows service protected by the QSP resource. Monitoring Status The status of whether service monitoring is enabled or disabled. If…
Checking Oracle Client Connectivity
LifeKeeper for Windows in a Cloud Environment » Microsoft Azure Guide » Oracle Specific Environment » Checking Connectivity (Client) » Checking Oracle Client Connectivity
Check the connection to the database from the client on sios20lkclient. Ensure that the Oracle resource hierarchy is active on the active node (sios20lknode01). Use the virtual IP address to connect to the database from sios20lkclient and run a simple SQL…
CLEARBLOCKTARGET
LifeKeeper for Windows Technical Documentation » DataKeeper » DataKeeper Administration » Using EMCMD with SIOS DataKeeper » CLEARBLOCKTARGET
EMCMD CLEARBLOCKTARGET This command sets the state of the block target flag to FLASE. The block target flag when set to FALSE will allow that system to become a target for the selected volume. This command is for internal use only. No output is produced when running…
CLEARSNAPSHOTLOCATION
LifeKeeper for Windows Technical Documentation » DataKeeper » DataKeeper Administration » Using EMCMD with SIOS DataKeeper » CLEARSNAPSHOTLOCATION
EMCMD CLEARSNAPSHOTLOCATION This command clears the snapshot location (directory path) for the given volume on the given system. Once this command executes successfully, snapshots will be disabled for the given volume. The parameters are: This is…
GETSERVICEINFO
LifeKeeper for Windows Technical Documentation » DataKeeper » DataKeeper Administration » Using EMCMD with SIOS DataKeeper » GETSERVICEINFO
EMCMD GETSERVICEINFO This command retrieves version and other information about the SIOS DataKeeper service and driver that is running on the specified machine. The parameters are: This can be either the source or the target systems. Sample…
SETBLOCKTARGET
LifeKeeper for Windows Technical Documentation » DataKeeper » DataKeeper Administration » Using EMCMD with SIOS DataKeeper » SETBLOCKTARGET
EMCMD SETBLOCKTARGET This command sets the state of the block target flag to TRUE. The block target flag when set to TRUE will prevent that system from ever becoming a target for the selected volume. This command is for internal use only. No output is produced when…
IP Local Recovery Scenario
LifeKeeper for Windows Technical Documentation » Administration » Working with Resource Hierarchies » Creating Resource Hierarchies » Creating an IP Address Resource Hierarchy » IP Local Recovery Scenario
When IP Local Recovery is enabled and the IP resource fails its quick check or deep check tests, then LifeKeeper for Windows will do the following: First, LifeKeeper for Windows will attempt to bring the IP address back in service on the current network…
DELETELOCALMIRRORONLY
LifeKeeper for Windows Technical Documentation » DataKeeper » DataKeeper Administration » Using EMCMD with SIOS DataKeeper » DELETELOCALMIRRORONLY
EMCMD DELETELOCALMIRRORONLY [] This command deletes the mirror only on the it is issued on. It handles the case when a mirror ends up with a target and no source or source and no target. The parameters are: This can be either the source or the…
GETEXTENDEDVOLUMEINFO
LifeKeeper for Windows Technical Documentation » DataKeeper » DataKeeper Administration » Using EMCMD with SIOS DataKeeper » GETEXTENDEDVOLUMEINFO
EMCMD GETEXTENDEDVOLUMEINFO This command returns extended volume information about the selected volume such as disk signature, physical disk offset and internal disk id. The parameters are: This can be either the source or the target systems.…
GETSNAPSHOTLOCATION
LifeKeeper for Windows Technical Documentation » DataKeeper » DataKeeper Administration » Using EMCMD with SIOS DataKeeper » GETSNAPSHOTLOCATION
EMCMD GETSNAPSHOTLOCATION This command retrieves the currently configured snapshot location (directory path) for the given volume on the given system. It will return an empty result if the snapshot location is not configured on the given volume. The parameters…
TAKESNAPSHOT
LifeKeeper for Windows Technical Documentation » DataKeeper » DataKeeper Administration » Using EMCMD with SIOS DataKeeper » TAKESNAPSHOT
EMCMD TAKESNAPSHOT […] This command, run on the target system, will notify DataKeeper to establish a snapshot of the given volume(s) on the given system. If no snapshot location has been configured, the command will fail. The parameters are: …
PAUSEMIRROR
LifeKeeper for Windows Technical Documentation » DataKeeper » DataKeeper Administration » Using EMCMD with SIOS DataKeeper » PAUSEMIRROR
EMCMD PAUSEMIRROR [] This command forces the mirror into a Paused state. The parameters are: This is the source system of the mirror to pause. Running the PAUSEMIRROR command on the target has no effect. The drive letter of the…
IIS Hierarchy Administration
Application Recovery Kits » LifeKeeper Microsoft Internet Information Services Recovery Kit Introduction » IIS Hierarchy Administration
The topics in this section assist in the administration of IIS hierarchies. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Modifying Quick Check Interval, Deep Check…
Subscription License Soution
LifeKeeper for Windows Technical Documentation » Troubleshooting » LifeKeeper for Windows Common Solutions » Subscription License Soution
How to Check the Expiration Date on a Subscription License ISSUE: How can I check the expiration date of a Subscription License? SOLUTION: 1. Open the License Key Installer App 2. Under the Expiration column you will see the expiration date of the subscription…
Verifying Network Configuration
LifeKeeper for Windows Installation Guide » Setting Up Your LifeKeeper for Windows Environment » Verifying Network Configuration
It is important to ensure that your network is configured and working properly before you install LifeKeeper for Windows. There are several tasks you should do at this point to verify your network operation: You must ensure that every network interface card (NIC)…
BREAKMIRROR
LifeKeeper for Windows Technical Documentation » DataKeeper » DataKeeper Administration » Using EMCMD with SIOS DataKeeper » BREAKMIRROR
EMCMD BREAKMIRROR [] This command forces the mirror into a Broken state. Breaking the mirror will cause a full resync to occur when the mirror is continued or resynced. The parameters are: This is the source system of the mirror to break. Running…
DELETEMIRROR
LifeKeeper for Windows Technical Documentation » DataKeeper » DataKeeper Administration » Using EMCMD with SIOS DataKeeper » DELETEMIRROR
EMCMD DELETEMIRROR [] This command deletes the mirror from both the source and the target if is a source. If is a target, it will delete the target side of the mirror only if the source system is down. The parameters are: This can be either the…
GETBLOCKTARGET
LifeKeeper for Windows Technical Documentation » DataKeeper » DataKeeper Administration » Using EMCMD with SIOS DataKeeper » GETBLOCKTARGET
EMCMD GETBLOCKTARGET This command provides the current state of the block target flag, either TRUE or FALSE. The block target flag if set to TRUE will prevent that system from ever becoming a target for the selected volume. This command is for internal use…
GETMIRRORTYPE
LifeKeeper for Windows Technical Documentation » DataKeeper » DataKeeper Administration » Using EMCMD with SIOS DataKeeper » GETMIRRORTYPE
EMCMD GETMIRRORTYPE This command provides a numeric output of the type of mirror. The parameters are: This can be either the source or the target systems. The driver letter of the volume you want information on. Output…
Get-DataKeeperVolumeInfo
LifeKeeper for Windows Technical Documentation » DataKeeper » DataKeeper Administration » Using DKPwrShell with SIOS DataKeeper » Get-DataKeeperVolumeInfo
This cmdlet is used to fetch information about a volume used in DataKeeper. It reports DataKeeper volume information. Parameters Parameter Type Required Position Notes Node String Yes 0 Use the Node parameter…
GETVOLUMEDRVSTATE
LifeKeeper for Windows Technical Documentation » DataKeeper » DataKeeper Administration » Using EMCMD with SIOS DataKeeper » GETVOLUMEDRVSTATE
EMCMD GETVOLUMEDRVSTATE This command retrieves the current state of the SIOS DataKeeper device driver. The parameters are: This can be either the source or the target systems. The drive letter of the volume you want to get the…
CONTINUEMIRROR
LifeKeeper for Windows Technical Documentation » DataKeeper » DataKeeper Administration » Using EMCMD with SIOS DataKeeper » CONTINUEMIRROR
EMCMD CONTINUEMIRROR [] This command forces a paused or broken mirror to resume mirroring. On successful completion of the resync (full or partial), the mirror state is changed to Mirroring. This command will not automatically relock the target volume if it is…