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Error Messages
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Administration Guide » Troubleshooting » Error Messages
For error messages that you may encounter with the Recovery Kit for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, see the Recovery Kit for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Message Catalog.
MQ Error Messages
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for IBM MQ Administration Guide » IBM MQ Troubleshooting » MQ Error Messages
This section provides a list of messages that you may encounter with the use of the LifeKeeper MQ Recovery Kit. Where appropriate, it provides an additional explanation of the cause of an error and necessary action to resolve the error condition. Because the MQ…
NAS Error Messages
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for Network Attached Storage Administration Guide » NAS Troubleshooting » NAS Error Messages
*Note: LifeKeeper takes resources out of service from the top of the hierarchy and works its way down to the other resources. When taking resources out of h2. Error Messages This section provides a list of messages that you may encounter while creating and extending a…
VMDK Error Messages
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for VMDK as Shared Storage Administration Guide » LifeKeeper VMDK Recovery Kit Configuration Tasks » VMDK Troubleshooting » VMDK Error Messages
This section provides a list of messages that you may encounter while creating and extending a LifeKeeper VMDK resource hierarchy or removing and restoring a resource. Where appropriate, it provides an additional explanation of the cause of an error and necessary…
Error Detection and Notification
LifeKeeper for Linux Technical Documentation » LifeKeeper Administration Overview » Error Detection and Notification
The ability to provide detection and alarming for problems within an application is critical to building the best total fault resilient solution. Since every specific application varies on the mechanism and format of failures, no one set of generic mechanisms can be…
Resource Error Recovery Scenario
LifeKeeper for Linux Technical Documentation » Fault Detection and Recovery Scenarios » Resource Error Recovery Scenario
LifeKeeper provides a real-time daemon monitor, lkcheck, to check the status and health of LifeKeeper-protected resources. For each in-service resource, lkcheck periodically calls the quickCheck script for that resource type. The quickCheck script performs a quick…
inqfail error in the LifeKeeper Log
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for Oracle Database Administration Guide » Oracle Troubleshooting » Oracle Known Issues and Restrictions » inqfail error in the LifeKeeper Log
If an inqfail error appears in your LifeKeeper error log following a failover, you will need to change the filesystemio setting. Note: The disk id and server name will be different for each configuration. To resolve this problem, you will need to change the setting…
SAP MaxDB Recovery Kit Error Messages
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for SAP MaxDB Administration Guide » SAP MaxDB Troubleshooting » SAP MaxDB Recovery Kit Error Messages
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 Message Cause/Action …
Troubleshooting SAP ASE Error During Resource Creation
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for SAP ASE Administration Guide » Recovery Kit for SAP ASE Administration » Troubleshooting SAP ASE Error During Resource Creation
SAP ASE Error During Resource Creation Symptom: Unable to create the resource instance during the resource creation Cause: If the instance is running, it could be because the profile is not located in the default $Sybase directory Solution: In /etc/default/LifeKeeper…
SAP Error Messages During Failover or In-Service
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for SAP Administration Guide » SAP Troubleshooting » SAP Error Messages During Failover or In-Service
After a failover of a SAP, there will be error messages in the SAP logs. Many of these error messages are normal and can be ignored. On Failure of the DB BVx: Work Process is in reconnect status – This error message simply states that a work progress has lost the…
Generic ARK for AWS Transit Gateway Error Codes
LifeKeeper for Linux in a Cloud Environment » Multi-VPC Cluster Configuration Using AWS Transit Gateway Quick Start Guide » Generic ARK for AWS Transit Gateway Error Codes
The following Generic ARK for AWS Transit Gateway message catalog lists all messages that may appear during the use of Generic ARK for AWS Transit Gateway. Code Severity Message Cause/Action 127001 ERROR Amazon…
IP Kit Message Catalog
Search for an Error Code » Combined Message Catalog » IP Kit 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 Message …
IP Recovery Kit (IPv4) Operations Overview
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for IP Address Administration Guide » IP Recovery Kit (IPv4) Operations Overview
This operations overview uses the case of protecting IPv4 addresses as an example. Bringing a Resource In Service (restore) Checking protected IP addresses Check whether protected IP is a physical IP address. If the physical IP address is protected, the restore…
Recovery Kit for EC2 Message Catalog
Search for an Error Code » Combined Message Catalog » Recovery Kit for EC2 Message Catalog
The Recovery Kit for EC2 Message Catalog below contains listings of all messages that may be encountered while utilizing the Recovery Kit for EC2. The Combined Message Catalog provides a listing of all messages that may be encountered while using LifeKeeper for Linux…
Recovery Kit for EC2 – Known Issues / Restrictions
LifeKeeper for Linux Technical Documentation » Troubleshooting » Known Issues and Restrictions » Recovery Kit for EC2 – Known Issues / Restrictions
Description On Amazon Linux 2023, the following message is logged in /var/log/lifekeeper.log: internal error: j_async: bad nzombie (0) Cause: This issue occurs because the maximum number of user processes (nproc) is set to…
Creating Links for ASE and OCS
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for SAP ASE Administration Guide » Recovery Kit for SAP ASE Configuration Considerations » Creating Links for ASE and OCS
The Recovery Kit for SAP ASE requires that the path $SYBASE/ASE- be symbolically linked to $SYBASE/ASE. In addition, the path $SYBASE/OCS- must be symbolically linked to $SYBASE/OCS. The Recovery Kit for SAP ASE uses these links to access various SAP utilities and…
IP Parameters List
Parameters List » IP Parameters List
The table below lists and explains names and meanings of the IP parameters. These values are tuned by editing the /etc/default/LifeKeeper configuration file. Parameter Name Meaning Setting Value Default Value When parameter takes effect…
Standby Node Health Check Parameters List
Parameters List » Standby Node Health Check Parameters List
It is necessary to enable/disable each functionality and configure the value for the Standby Node Health Check. These settings can be customized in the /etc/default/LifeKeeper configuration file. Parameter Description Value to Set Default…
Creating an Apache Web Server Resource Hierarchy
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for Apache Administration Guide » LifeKeeper Configuration Tasks for Apache » Creating an Apache Web Server Resource Hierarchy
*IMPORTANT: Before you create your Web Server resource hierarchy, you must make sure that your Apache configuration file has included an existing LifeKeeper-protected IP resource. In a shared environment where the web documents and/or configuration files are on a…
Combined Message Catalog
Search for an Error Code » Combined 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 Message Cause/Action …
Logical Volume Manager Troubleshooting
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for Logical Volume Manager Administration Guide » Logical Volume Manager Troubleshooting
Error Messages This section provides a list of messages that you may encounter with the use of the Logical Volume Manager Recovery Kit. Where appropriate, it provides an additional explanation of the cause of an error and necessary action to resolve the error…
Quick Service Protection Kit Message Catalog
Search for an Error Code » Combined Message Catalog » Quick Service Protection Kit 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 Message …
Recovery Kit for HULFT Message Catalog
Search for an Error Code » Combined Message Catalog » Recovery Kit for HULFT 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 Message Cause/Action …
Apache Hierarchy Creation Errors
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for Apache Administration Guide » Apache Web Server Troubleshooting » Apache Hierarchy Creation Errors
The error messages that might be displayed during the Apache hierarchy creation are listed below, along with a suggested explanation for each. Error messages displayed by the LifeKeeper core and by other recovery kits are not listed in this guide. Note that you may…
OSU Resource Monitoring
LifeKeeper for Linux Technical Documentation » Installation and Configuration » Optional Configuration Tasks » Standby Node Health Check » OSU Resource Monitoring
For each out-of-service (OSU) resource, lkcheck periodically calls the OSUquickCheck script for the resource. The OSUquickCheck script performs a quick health check for the resource. If it determines that the resource cannot start successfully, it changes the state of…
Apache Hierarchy Restore, Remove, and Recover Messages and Errors
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for Apache Administration Guide » Apache Web Server Troubleshooting » Apache Hierarchy Restore, Remove, and Recover Messages and Errors
The following information and error messages are printed to the LifeKeeper error log. They may be viewed by typing “lk_log log”. Bringing an Apache Resource In Service (Restore) “LifeKeeper: RESTORE: APACHE: RESTORING $TAG TO SERVICE START AT:…
Oracle PDB Kit Message Catalog
Search for an Error Code » Combined Message Catalog » Oracle PDB Kit 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 Message …
Quorum Message Catalog
Search for an Error Code » Combined Message Catalog » Quorum 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 Message Cause/Action …
Oracle Listener Kit Message Catalog
Search for an Error Code » Combined Message Catalog » Oracle Listener Kit 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 Message …
Recovery Kit for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Message Catalog
Search for an Error Code » Combined Message Catalog » Recovery Kit for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure 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. For a complete list of all the messages you may encounter while using LifeKeeper for Linux, please refer to the…
Recovery Kit for EC2™ Troubleshooting
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for Amazon EC2™ Administration Guide » Recovery Kit for EC2™ Troubleshooting
The Message Catalog provides a list of all messages that may be encountered while using LifeKeeper for Linux and, where appropriate, provides additional explanation of the cause of the errors and necessary action to resolve the error condition. This full listing may be…
Apache Web Server Troubleshooting
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for Apache Administration Guide » Apache Web Server Troubleshooting
This section provides a list of messages that you may encounter during the process of creating and extending a LifeKeeper Apache Web Server resource hierarchy, removing and restoring a resource, and, where appropriate, provides additional explanation of the cause of…
Oracle Troubleshooting
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for Oracle Database Administration Guide » Oracle Troubleshooting
The Oracle Recovery Message Catalog below contains listings of all messages that may be encountered while utilizing the Oracle kit. The Combined Message Catalog provides a listing of all messages that may be encountered while using LifeKeeper for Linux and, where…
DB2 Kit Message Catalog
Search for an Error Code » Combined Message Catalog » DB2 Kit 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 Message …
PostgreSQL Troubleshooting
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for PostgreSQL Administration Guide » PostgreSQL Troubleshooting
This section provides a list of messages that you may encounter while creating and extending a LifeKeeper PostgreSQL resource hierarchy or removing and restoring a resource. Where appropriate, it provides an additional explanation of the cause of an error and necessary…
File System Kit Message Catalog
Search for an Error Code » Combined Message Catalog » File System Kit 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 Message …
NFS Troubleshooting
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for NFS Server Administration Guide » NFS Troubleshooting
This section provides a list of messages that you may encounter while creating and extending a LifeKeeper NFS resource hierarchy or removing and restoring a resource. Where appropriate, it provides an additional explanation of the cause of an error and necessary action…
Troubleshooting
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for HULFT Administration Guide » Troubleshooting
This section provides a list of messages that you may encounter during the process of creating and extending a HULFT resource hierarchy, restoring and removing a resource, and, where appropriate, provides additional explanation of the cause of the errors and the…
GUI Message Catalog
Search for an Error Code » Combined Message Catalog » GUI 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. …
Oracle Kit Message Catalog
Search for an Error Code » Combined Message Catalog » Oracle Kit 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 Message …
SCSI Kit Message Catalog
Search for an Error Code » Combined Message Catalog » SCSI Kit 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 Message …
IBM MQ Troubleshooting
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for IBM MQ Administration Guide » IBM MQ Troubleshooting
WebSphere MQ Log Locations If the queue manager name is known and the queue manager is available, WebSphere MQ error logs are located in the directory specified by the LogPath parameter defined in the queue manager configuration file qm.ini. If the queue manager is…
NFS Hierarchy Creation Errors
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for NFS Server Administration Guide » NFS Troubleshooting » NFS Hierarchy Creation Errors
The error messages that might be displayed during the NFS hierarchy creation are listed below, along with a suggested explanation for each. The messages listed cover both the creation of the nfs and hanfs resources. Error messages displayed by the LifeKeeper core and…
SAP Troubleshooting
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for SAP Administration Guide » SAP Troubleshooting
This section provides a list of messages that you may encounter during the process of creating and extending a LifeKeeper SAP resource hierarchy, removing and restoring a resource and, where appropriate, provides additional explanation of the cause of the errors and…
Apache Extend Hierarchy Errors
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for Apache Administration Guide » Apache Web Server Troubleshooting » Apache Extend Hierarchy Errors
The error messages that might be displayed during Apache hierarchy extension are listed below, along with a suggested explanation for each. Note that these error messages appear when the GUI indicates it is “Executing the pre-extend script….” to validate the…
Gen/App Kit Message Catalog
Search for an Error Code » Combined Message Catalog » Gen/App Kit 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 Message Cause/Action …
SAP Message Catalog
Search for an Error Code » Combined Message Catalog » SAP 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 Message …
DRBD Kit Message Catalog
Search for an Error Code » Combined Message Catalog » DRBD Kit 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 Message …
Recovery Kit for JP1/AJS Message Catalog
Search for an Error Code » Combined Message Catalog » Recovery Kit for JP1/AJS 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 …
DMMP Kit Message Catalog
Search for an Error Code » Combined Message Catalog » DMMP Kit 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 Message …
NFS Resource Hierarchy Restore, Remove, quickCheck and Recover Messages and Errors
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for NFS Server Administration Guide » NFS Troubleshooting » NFS Resource Hierarchy Restore, Remove, quickCheck and Recover Messages and Errors
Bringing an NFS Resource In‑Service (Restore) Error Number Error Message Description 106003 restore: Unable to create the export entry file for “EXPORT POINT” in LifeKeeper Possible causes: File system is full of…
DataKeeper Kit Message Catalog
Search for an Error Code » Combined Message Catalog » DataKeeper Kit 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 Message Cause/Action …
Apache Recovery Kit Operations Overview
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for Apache Administration Guide » Apache Recovery Kit Operations Overview
Bringing a Resource In Service (restore) Start the Apache resource in the following order: Use the httpd command’s -t option to perform a syntax check on the configuration file. If there is a syntax error, the process exits with an error. Determine…
SAP HANA Recovery Kit Message Catalog
Search for an Error Code » Combined Message Catalog » SAP HANA Recovery Kit 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 Message Cause/Action …
MySQL Troubleshooting
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for MySQL Administration Guide » MySQL Troubleshooting
Common Error Messages This section provides a list of messages that you may encounter while creating and extending a LifeKeeper MySQL resource hierarchy or removing and restoring a resource. Where appropriate, it provides an additional explanation of the cause of an…
WebSphere MQ – Known Issues / Restrictions
LifeKeeper for Linux Technical Documentation » Troubleshooting » Known Issues and Restrictions » WebSphere MQ – Known Issues / Restrictions
Description Error when lksupport command is executed: The following error can be output when lksupport command is executed in the case MQ queue manager protected by MQ RK is set on the disk shared by NFS. cat: /mqm/qmgrs/tkqmgr/qm.ini: Operation…
LifeKeeper GUI Related Errors
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for Network Attached Storage Administration Guide » NAS Troubleshooting » LifeKeeper GUI Related Errors
Error Number Error Message 104901 The mount point %s is mounted Action: Please specify a mount point that is not mounted. 104902 The mount point %s is not an absolute path Action: Please specify a mount point that…
Recovery Kit for JP1/AJS Processing Overview
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for JP1/AJS Administration Guide » Recovery Kit for JP1/AJS Processing Overview
Overview The Recovery Kit for JP1/AJS protects three JP1 products: JP1/Base, JP1/AJS3 – Manager, and JP1/AJS3 – Agent. Since the protection process flow is the same for these products despite differences in the commands used, this document explains them…
Recovery Kit for Route 53™ Operations Overview
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for Amazon Route 53™ Administration Guide » Recovery Kit for Route 53™ Operations Overview
Each procedure is performed through the AWS CLI provided by Amazon Web Services. Bringing a Resource In Service (restore) Use the following command to get the IP address configured in the Route 53 A record with the AWS CLI. # aws --output text…
NFS Resource Extend Hierarchy Errors
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for NFS Server Administration Guide » NFS Troubleshooting » NFS Resource Extend Hierarchy Errors
The error messages that might be displayed during NFS hierarchy extension are listed below, along with a suggested explanation for each. Note that these error messages appear when the GUI indicates it is “Executing the pre-extend script….” to validate the…
Using Network Attached Storage
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for MySQL Administration Guide » Recovery Kit for MySQL Configuration » Using Network Attached Storage
There are a couple of special considerations to take into account when configuring LifeKeeper to use an NFS file server (Network Attached Storage) as cluster storage. Use the NAS Recovery Kit The optional Network Attached Storage (NAS) recovery kit is required when…
SAP HANA Troubleshooting
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for SAP HANA Administration Guide » Recovery Kit for SAP HANA Requirements Overview » SAP HANA Troubleshooting
The Message Catalog provides a list of all messages that may be encountered while using LifeKeeper for Linux and, where appropriate, provides additional explanation of the cause of the errors and necessary action to resolve the error condition. This full listing may be…
LB Health Check Message Catalog
Search for an Error Code » Combined Message Catalog » 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. For a complete list of all the messages you may encounter while using LifeKeeper for Linux, please refer to the…
DRBD for Linux Troubleshooting
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Data Replication » DRBD Recovery Kit » DRBD for Linux Troubleshooting
This section provides information regarding issues that may be encountered with the use of DRBD Recovery Kit. Where appropriate, additional explanation of the cause of an error is provided along with necessary action to resolve the error condition. Messages specific…
NFS Resource Hierarchy Delete Messages and Errors
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for NFS Server Administration Guide » NFS Troubleshooting » NFS Resource Hierarchy Delete Messages and Errors
Error Number Error Message Description 106015 Unable to restore the entry for export point “EXPORT POINT” in /etc/exports on server “SERVER” Restore the entry manually. 106021 An entry for…
SAP Hierarchy Restore Errors
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for SAP Administration Guide » SAP Troubleshooting » SAP Hierarchy Restore Errors
Symptom: When attempting to bring an SAP resource hierarchy which does not contain a dependent file system resource back in-service on a previous host node, the in-service (restore) of the SAP resource fails. Messages similar to the following appear in the SAP…
SNMP Troubleshooting
LifeKeeper for Linux Technical Documentation » Installation and Configuration » LifeKeeper Event Forwarding via SNMP » SNMP Troubleshooting
Following are some possible problems and solutions related to SNMP Event Forwarding. For specific error messages, see the LifeKeeper Message Catalog. Problem: No SNMP trap messages are sent from LifeKeeper. Solution: Verify that the snmptrap utility is installed on…
Email Notification Troubleshooting
LifeKeeper for Linux Technical Documentation » Installation and Configuration » LifeKeeper Event Email Notification » Email Notification Troubleshooting
Following are some possible problems and solutions related to email notification of LifeKeeper events. For specific error messages, see the LifeKeeper Message Catalog. Problem: No email messages are received from LifeKeeper. Solution: Verify that the mail utility is…
PostgreSQL General Tips
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for PostgreSQL Administration Guide » PostgreSQL Troubleshooting » PostgreSQL General Tips
The following error messages and conditions may be encountered while using the recovery kit. Error Solution Unable to protect PostgreSQL database using the same port as another LK protected PostgreSQL database. Verify the version of…
Incomplete Resource Priority Modification
LifeKeeper for Linux Technical Documentation » Troubleshooting » Incomplete Resource Priority Modification
A hierarchy in LifeKeeper is defined as all resources associated by parent/child relationships. For resources that have multiple parents, it is not always easy to discern from the GUI all of the root resources for a hierarchy. In order to maintain consistency in a…
tset Errors Appear in the LifeKeeper Log File
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for SAP Administration Guide » tset Errors Appear in the LifeKeeper Log File
Cause: The su commands used by the SAP and Database Recovery Kits cause a ‘tset’ error message to be output to the LK log that appears as follows: tset: standard error: Invalid argument This error comes from one of the profile files in the SAP…
Recovery Kit for Route 53™ Troubleshooting
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for Amazon Route 53™ Administration Guide » Recovery Kit for Route 53™ Troubleshooting
The Message Catalog provides a listing of all messages that may be encountered while using LifeKeeper for Linux and, where appropriate, provides additional explanation of the cause of the errors and necessary action to resolve the error condition. This full listing may…
Troubleshooting
LifeKeeper for Linux Technical Documentation » Troubleshooting
The Message Catalog provides a listing of all error codes, including operational, administrative and GUI, that may be encountered while using LifeKeeper for Linux and, where appropriate, provides additional explanation of the cause of the error code and necessary…
Configuring the Oracle Net Listener for LifeKeeper Protection
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for Oracle Database Administration Guide » Configuring Oracle with LifeKeeper » Configuring the Oracle Net Listener for LifeKeeper Protection
If your Oracle database will have remote client connections, you will want to protect the Oracle Listener in addition to the Oracle database server. Please refer to the Oracle documentation for information on using Oracle network configuration utilities to create…
Creating a HULFT Resource Hierarchy
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for HULFT Administration Guide » LifeKeeper Configuration » Creating a HULFT Resource Hierarchy
*Important: Before creating a HULFT resource hierarchy, the HULFT instance should be configured so that myhostname listens to the LifeKeeper-protected virtual IP address. An IP resource corresponding to the virtual IP address should be created in advance. To create a…
LifeKeeper Alarming and Recovery
LifeKeeper for Linux Technical Documentation » User Guide » Using LifeKeeper for Linux » Advanced Tasks » LCM » LifeKeeper Alarming and Recovery
LifeKeeper error detection and notification is based on the event alarming mechanism, sendevent. The key concept of the sendevent mechanism is that independent applications can register to receive alarms for critical components. Neither the alarm initiation component…
Fault Detection and Recovery Scenarios
LifeKeeper for Linux Technical Documentation » Fault Detection and Recovery Scenarios
To demonstrate how the various LifeKeeper components work together to provide fault detection and recovery, see the following topics that illustrate and describe three types of recovery…
SAP HANA GUI States
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for SAP HANA Administration Guide » Recovery Kit for SAP HANA Requirements Overview » SAP HANA GUI States
The active (ISP) resource can have the following states. Some of these warning and failure states are transient and may appear while LifeKeeper is attempting to recover required processes or before LifeKeeper initiates a failover of the HANA resource…
DB2 – Known Issues / Restrictions
LifeKeeper for Linux Technical Documentation » Troubleshooting » Known Issues and Restrictions » DB2 – Known Issues / Restrictions
Description DB2 Recovery Kit reports unnecessary error If DB2 is installed on a shared disk, the following message may be seen when extending a DB2 resource. LifeKeeper was unable to add instance “%s” and/or its variables to the…
Updating the Oracle Listener Recovery Level
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for Oracle Database Administration Guide » Oracle Appendix » Creating an Oracle Listener for Multiple Resources » Updating the Oracle Listener Recovery Level
Select a listener and then the button from the Resource toolbar to update the recovery level of the resource. Enter the following information. Field Tips Listener Recovery Level Select the level of recovery for the specified…
LVM Recovery Kit Operations Overview
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for Logical Volume Manager Administration Guide » LVM Recovery Kit Operations Overview
Create a file system resource that includes LVM creates the following resource hierarchy: [filesys] └[lvmlv] └[lvmvg] └[device] └[disk] Bringing a Resource In Service (restore) [lvmlv] Resource Execute the following command to activate…
Multipath Recovery Kits (DMMP / HDLM / PPATH) Known Issues / Restrictions
LifeKeeper for Linux Technical Documentation » Troubleshooting » Known Issues and Restrictions » Multipath Recovery Kits (DMMP / HDLM / PPATH) Known Issues / Restrictions
Description Multipath Recovery Kits (DMMP / HDLM / PPATH): Registration conflict error occurs on lkstop when resource OSF The multipath recovery kits (DMMP, HDLM, PPATH) can have a system halt occur on the active (ISP) node when LifeKeeper is…
Using mysqld Groups with LifeKeeper
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for MySQL Administration Guide » Recovery Kit for MySQL Configuration » Using mysqld Groups with LifeKeeper
*When systemd support for MySQL is installed, systemd can manage multiple MySQL instances. Consequently, the mysqld_multi utility is not installed. For details, refer to Considerations when using systemd support for MySQL. The MySQL Application Recovery Kit supports…
Install the SAP ASE Software
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for SAP ASE Administration Guide » Installing and Configuring SAP ASE with LifeKeeper » Install the SAP ASE Software
Install the SAP ASE software on all servers in the cluster using identical parameters/settings. Refer to the Installation Guide Adaptive Server for Linux for details. The following are additional recommendations to ensure that LifeKeeper will work with SAP ASE: A…
SAP ASE – Known Issues / Restrictions
LifeKeeper for Linux Technical Documentation » Troubleshooting » Known Issues and Restrictions » SAP ASE – Known Issues / Restrictions
Description User Name/Password Issues: If the default user name is password-protected, the create UI does not detect this until after all validation is complete When creating the SAP ASE resource, you are prompted to enter the user name. The…
DataKeeper for Linux Troubleshooting
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Data Replication » DataKeeper » DataKeeper for Linux Troubleshooting
This section provides information regarding issues that may be encountered with the use of DataKeeper for Linux. Where appropriate, additional explanation of the cause of an error is provided along with necessary action to resolve the error condition. Messages…
Using Network Attached Storage with SAP ASE
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for SAP ASE Administration Guide » Recovery Kit for SAP ASE Configuration Considerations » Using Network Attached Storage with SAP ASE
There are a couple of special considerations to take into account when configuring LifeKeeper to use an NFS file server (Network Attached Storage) as cluster storage. Use the Recovery Kit for Network Attached Storage The optional Recovery Kit for Network Attached…
LKCLI Mirror Administration
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Data Replication » DRBD Recovery Kit » Administering SIOS DRBD for Linux » LKCLI Mirror Administration
lkcli drbd *Note: lkcli drbd command requires DRBD and the DRBD Recovery Kit to be installed. lkcli drbd changeip --oldip --newip [--tag ] Option Default Description --oldip The old ipv4 address…
Changing Replication and Operation Modes
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for SAP HANA Administration Guide » Recovery Kit for SAP HANA Requirements Overview » SAP HANA Resource Configuration Tasks » SAP HANA Resource Hierarchy Administration » Changing Replication and Operation Modes
!While the replication and operation modes may be changed for the secondary replication site, the user should never perform a manual takeover or switchover of SAP HANA System Replication outside of LifeKeeper. Doing so will result in an error state in which the SAP…
Replicate Existing File System
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Data Replication » DataKeeper » SIOS DataKeeper Installation and Configuration » Resource Configuration Tasks » Creating a DataKeeper Resource Hierarchy » Replicate Existing File System
This option will unmount a currently mounted file system on a local disk or partition, create a NetRAID device, then re-mount the file system on the NetRAID device. Both the NetRAID device and the mounted file system are placed under LifeKeeper protection. You should…
SAP MaxDB Troubleshooting
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for SAP MaxDB Administration Guide » SAP MaxDB Troubleshooting
General Tips The following error messages may be encountered while using the SAP MaxDB Recovery Kit. Error Message Solution The tunable MAXDB_ILB_ENABLED is set in the LifeKeeper defaults file for Internal Load Balancer support. Protecting…
IPv6 – Known Issues / Restrictions
LifeKeeper for Linux Technical Documentation » Troubleshooting » Known Issues and Restrictions » IPv6 – Known Issues / Restrictions
Description SIOS has migrated to the use of the ip command and away from the ifconfig command. Because of this change, customers with external scripts are advised to make a similar change. Instead of issuing the ifconfig command and parsing the…
Register ESXi Host
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for VMDK as Shared Storage Administration Guide » LifeKeeper VMDK Recovery Kit Configuration Tasks » Register ESXi Host
Before creating a VMDK resource, register the ESXi host information. Follow the steps below: Execute the following command on the console screen. # /opt/LifeKeeper/lkadm/subsys/scsi/vmdk/bin/esxi_register -a When you execute the command, you will be asked for…
Internet/IP Licensing – Known Issues / Restrictions
LifeKeeper for Linux Technical Documentation » Troubleshooting » Known Issues and Restrictions » Internet/IP Licensing – Known Issues / Restrictions
Description /etc/hosts settings dependency /etc/hosts settings: When using internet-based licensing (IPv4 address), the configuration of /etc/hosts can negatively impact license validation. If LifeKeeper startup fails with: Error in obtaining…
Creating an NFS Resource Hierarchy
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for NFS Server Administration Guide » NFS Configuration Tasks » Creating an NFS Resource Hierarchy
To create a resource instance from the primary server, you should complete the following steps: From the LifeKeeper GUI menu, select Edit, then Server. From the drop-down menu, select Create Resource Hierarchy. To change a selection already entered or if an error…
Creating an SAP MaxDB Resource Hierarchy
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for SAP MaxDB Administration Guide » SAP MaxDB Resource Configuration Tasks » Creating an SAP MaxDB Resource Hierarchy
Perform the following steps on the primary server: On the Edit menu, select Server, then Create Resource Hierarchy. The Create Resource Wizard dialog will appear. Select SAP MaxDB Database from the drop-down list and click Enter. You will be prompted for…
DRBD Parameters List
Parameters List » DRBD Parameters List
The table below lists and explains names and meanings of the DRBD parameters. These values are tuned by editing the /etc/default/LifeKeeper configuration file. Parameter Name Meaning Setting Value Default Value When parameter takes…
DataKeeper Resource
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Data Replication » DataKeeper » SIOS DataKeeper Installation and Configuration » Resource Configuration Tasks » Creating a DataKeeper Resource Hierarchy » DataKeeper Resource
This option will create only the NetRAID device (not a file system) and place the device under LifeKeeper protection. You should select this option if you only want to create a DataKeeper device on a disk or partition and place the device under LifeKeeper protection.…
SELinux
Evaluation Guides » LifeKeeper Evaluation Guide for Cloud Environments » Configure Linux Nodes to Run LifeKeeper for Linux » SELinux
Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) is a Linux kernel security module that provides a mechanism for supporting access control security policies, including mandatory access controls (MAC). For more information on SELinux refer to the following: SELinux Chapter 2.…