LifeKeeper Components

LifeKeeper Core

LifeKeeper for Linux is bundled for, and only runs on, 64-bit systems (AMD64 and EM64T systems).

The LifeKeeper Core bundle includes:

• LifeKeeper
• DataKeeper
• Recovery Kits

The LifeKeeper Core Package Cluster includes the following installable packages:

v10.0.1 Componets

Package	Package Name	Description
LifeKeeper Core	steeleye-lk-10.0.1-7800.x86_64.rpm	The LifeKeeper package provides recovery software for failures associated with core system components such as memory, CPUs, the operating system, the SCSI disk subsystem and file systems.
GUI	steeleye-lk-10.0.1-7800.x86_64.rpm	The GUI package provides a graphical user interface for LifeKeeper and DataKeeper administration and status monitoring.
Recovery Kit for IP Address	steeleye-lkIP-10.0.1-7800.noarch.rpm	The Recovery Kit for IP Address provides recovery software for automatic switchover of IP addresses.
Recovery Kit for Quick Service Protection	steeleye-lkQSP-10.0.1-7800.noarch.rpm	The Recovery Kit for Quick Service Protection provides a simple disaster recovery function for various services.
Man Pages	steeleye-lkMAN-10.0.1-7800.noarch.rpm	The Man Page package provides reference manual pages for the LifeKeeper product.

LifeKeeper Optional Recovery Software

The following optional software provides resource definition and recovery software for the application versions listed. See the Certification Information and Recovery Kit Administration Guides for the requirements for each recovery software.

Note that Recovery Kits will only be supported with the Core version with which they were shipped (e.g. Recovery Kit for Oracle Database 10.0.1 will only be supported with LifeKeeper for Linux 10.0.1).

Package	Package Name	Description
Recovery Kit for Apache	steeleye-lkAPA-10.0.1-7800.noarch.rpm	The Recovery Kit for Apache provides fault resilience for Apache Web Server software in a LifeKeeper environment.
Recovery Kit for SAP	steeleye-lkSAP-10.0.1-7800.noarch.rpm	The Recovery Kit for SAP provides a mechanism to recover SAP NetWeaver from a failed primary server onto a backup server in a LifeKeeper environment working in conjunction with other LifeKeeper Recovery Kits to provide comprehensive failover protection.
Recovery Kit for SAP HANA	steeleye-lkSAPHANA-10.0.1-7800.noarch.rpm	The Recovery Kit for SAP HANA provides fault resilient protection for SAP HANA databases in a LifeKeeper for Linux environment.
Recovery Kit for SAP MaxDB	steeleye-lkSAPDB-10.0.1-7800.noarch.rpm	The Recovery Kit for SAP MaxDB provides fault resilient protection for SAP MaxDB databases in a LifeKeeper for Linux environment.
Recovery Kit for IBM Db2 Database	steeleye-lkDB2-10.0.1-7800.noarch.rpm	The Recovery Kit for IBM Db2 Database provides fault resilient protection for DB2 database instances. LifeKeeper together with the DB2 Universal Database product family afford increased availability to DB2 operating environments by effectively recovering database server failures without significant down-time or human intervention.
Recovery Kit for Oracle Database	steeleye-lkORA-10.0.1-7800.noarch.rpm	The Recovery Kit for Oracle Database provides fault resilience for Oracle software in a LifeKeeper environment furnishing a mechanism to tie the data integrity of Oracle databases to the increased availability provided by LifeKeeper.
Recovery Kit for MySQL	steeleye-lkSQL-10.0.1-7800.noarch.rpm	The Recovery Kit for MySQL provides an easy way to add LifeKeeper fault‑resilient protection for MySQL resources and databases enabling a failure on the primary database server to be recovered on a designated backup server without significant lost time or human intervention.
Recovery Kit for PostgreSQL	steeleye-lkPGSQL-10.0.1-7800.noarch.rpm	The Recovery Kit for PostgreSQL is an SQL compliant, object-relational database management system (ORDBMS) based on POSTGRES providing a mechanism for protecting PostgreSQL instances within LifeKeeper.
Recovery Kit for SAP ASE	steeleye-lkSYBASE-10.0.1-7800.noarch.rpm	The Recovery Kit for SAP ASE provides LifeKeeper resource protection for the SAP ASE components Adaptive Server, Monitor Server, and Backup Server.
Recovery Kit for NFS Server	steeleye-lkNFS-10.0.1-7800.noarch.rpm	The Recovery Kit for NFS Server provides fault resilience for Network File System (NFS) software in a LifeKeeper environment enabling a failure on the primary NFS server to be recovered on a designated backup server without significant lost time or human intervention.
Recovery Kit for Network Attached Storage	steeleye-lkNAS-10.0.1-7800.noarch.rpm	The Recovery Kit for Network Attached Storage provides fault resilience for Network File System (NFS) software in a LifeKeeper environment affording LifeKeeper users the opportunity to employ an exported NFS file system as the storage basis for LifeKeeper hierarchies. NFS over UDP is not supported on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and later. Some environments may require additional configurations. Refer to Specific Configuration Considerations for details.
Recovery Kit for Logical Volume Manager	steeleye-lkLVM-10.0.1-7800.noarch.rpm	The Recovery Kit for Logical Volume Manager (LVM) provides logical volume support for other LifeKeeper recovery kits allowing LifeKeeper-protected applications to take advantage of the benefits offered by the Logical Volume Manager, including simplified storage management and the ability to dynamically re-size volumes as needs change.
Recovery Kit for PowerPath	steeleye-lkPPATH-10.0.1-7800.noarch.rpm	The Recovery Kit for PowerPath protects applications that use EMC PowerPath multipath I/O devices.
Recovery Kit for Device Mapper Multipath (DMMP)	steeleye-lkDMMP-10.0.1-7800.noarch.rpm	The Recovery Kit for Device Mapper Multipath (DMMP) protects applications and file systems that use DMMP devices allowing LifeKeeper to operate with and protect these applications and file systems.
Recovery Kit for Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager Software (HDLM)	steeleye-lkHDLM-10.0.1-7800.noarch.rpm	The Recovery Kit for Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager Software (HDLM) protects applications that use Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager Software devices.
DataKeeper	steeleye-lkDR-10.0.1-7800.noarch.rpm	DataKeeper provides an integrated data mirroring capability for LifeKeeper environments enabling LifeKeeper resources to operate in shared and non-shared storage environments.
Recovery Kit for DRBD	steeleye-lkDRBD-10.0.1-7800.noarch.rpm	The Recovery Kit for Distributed Replicated Block Device (DRBD) provides replicated storage for other LifeKeeper for Linux Recovery Kits. Thus, LifeKeeper-protected applications can take advantage of the benefits offered by DRBD to build a high availability cluster without shared storage.
Recovery Kit for IBM MQ	steeleye-lkMQS-10.0.1-7800.noarch.rpm	The Recovery Kit for IBM MQ provides fault resilient protection for IBM MQ queue managers and queue manager storage locations enabling a failure on a primary IBM MQ server or queue manager to be recovered on the primary server or a designated backup server without significant lost time or human intervention.
Quorum/Witness Kit	steeleye-lkQWK-10.0.1-7800.noarch.rpm	The Quorum/Witness Kit allows a node to get a “second opinion” on the status of a failing node acting as an intermediary to determine which servers are part of the cluster. When determining when to fail over, the Witness Server, or Storage Witness, allows resources to be brought in service on a backup server only in cases where it verifies the primary server has failed and is no longer part of the cluster. Note: Quorum is required for all 2 node DataKeeper clusters. Each 2 node cluster must use its own quorum/witness node. Shared witness servers are not recommended.
Recovery Kit for Amazon EC2™	steeleye-lkECC-10.0.1-7800.noarch.rpm	The Recovery Kit for Amazon EC2 provides a mechanism to recover an Elastic IP from a failed primary server to a backup server. It also provides a mechanism to enable the IP Recovery Kit to work in multiple availability zones.
Recovery Kit for Amazon Route 53™	steeleye-lkROUTE53-10.0.1-7800.noarch.rpm	The Recovery Kit for Amazon Route 53 provides a mechanism for updating Amazon Route 53 DNS information corresponding to a virtual IP address and an actual IP address information of IP resources that are in dependency relation when switching to a failed primary server to a backup server.
Recovery Kit for VMDK as Shared Storage	steeleye-lkVMDK-10.0.1-7800.noarch.rpm	With the Recovery Kit for VMDK as Shared Storage, VMware virtual hard disks and their file systems used as shared disks can be protected as LifeKeeper resources.
Recovery Kit for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure	steeleye-lkOCIVIP-10.0.1-7800.noarch.rpm	Communication via a virtual IP address using the Recovery Kit for IP Address is allowed in the Oracle Cloud environment.
Recovery Kit for SCSI3	steeleye-lkSCSI3-10.0.1-7800.noarch.rpm	The Recovery Kit for SCSI3 protects applications and file systems that use the standard Linux SCSI device interface (/dev/sd device nodes) with SCSI-3 persistent reservations.
Recovery Kit for Load Balancer Health Check	steeleye-lkLBHC-10.0.1-7800.noarch.rpm	The Recovery Kit for Load balancer Health Check replaces the Generic Load Balancer (GenLB) Recovery Kit. The GenLB recovery kit was a collection of action scripts available for download for 9.6.1 to be used with a generic application (gen/app) resource. The GenLB kit has been migrated to a full ARK for ease of use.
Recovery Kit for JP1/AJS	steeleye-lkJP1AJS-10.0.1-7800.noarch.rpm	Recovery Kit for JP1/AJS provides fault-tolerant protection for the integrated system management software “JP1” developed by Hitachi, Ltd.
Recovery Kit for HULFT	steeleye-lkHUL-10.0.1-7800.noarch.rpm	SIOS LifeKeeper® for Linux Recovery Kit for HULFT enhances the disaster recovery capabilities of HULFT software in a LifeKeeper environment.

LifeKeeper Web Management Console

The LifeKeeper Management Console (LKWMC) is a web-based user interface for administering LifeKeeper for Linux clusters. The LKWMC bundle includes the following installable packages:

Package	Package Name	Description
LifeKeeper Web Management Console	steeleye-lkWMC-10.0.1-838.x86_64.rpm	The LifeKeeper Web Management Console package is a web-based user interface for managing LifeKeeper for Linux.
LifeKeeper REST API	steeleye-lkrestapi-10.0.1-7637.noarch.rpm	The LifeKeeper REST API package allows the LifeKeeper Web Management Console to interact with the LifeKeeper Core.

v10.0.0 Componets

Package	Package Name	Description
LifeKeeper Core	steeleye-lk-10.0.0-7800.x86_64.rpm	The LifeKeeper package provides recovery software for failures associated with core system components such as memory, CPUs, the operating system, the SCSI disk subsystem and file systems.
GUI	steeleye-lk-10.0.0-7800.x86_64.rpm	The GUI package provides a graphical user interface for LifeKeeper and DataKeeper administration and status monitoring.
Recovery Kit for IP Address	steeleye-lkIP-10.0.0-7800.noarch.rpm	The Recovery Kit for IP Address provides recovery software for automatic switchover of IP addresses.
Recovery Kit for Quick Service Protection	steeleye-lkQSP-10.0.0-7800.noarch.rpm	The Recovery Kit for Quick Service Protection provides a simple disaster recovery function for various services.
Man Pages	steeleye-lkMAN-10.0.0-7800.noarch.rpm	The Man Page package provides reference manual pages for the LifeKeeper product.

LifeKeeper Optional Recovery Software

The following optional software provides resource definition and recovery software for the application versions listed. See the Certification Information and Recovery Kit Administration Guides for the requirements for each recovery software.

Note that Recovery Kits will only be supported with the Core version with which they were shipped (e.g. Recovery Kit for Oracle Database 10.0.0 will only be supported with LifeKeeper for Linux 10.0.0).

Package	Package Name	Description
Recovery Kit for Apache	steeleye-lkAPA-10.0.0-7800.noarch.rpm	The Recovery Kit for Apache provides fault resilience for Apache Web Server software in a LifeKeeper environment.
Recovery Kit for SAP	steeleye-lkSAP-10.0.0-7800.noarch.rpm	The Recovery Kit for SAP provides a mechanism to recover SAP NetWeaver from a failed primary server onto a backup server in a LifeKeeper environment working in conjunction with other LifeKeeper Recovery Kits to provide comprehensive failover protection.
Recovery Kit for SAP HANA	steeleye-lkSAPHANA-10.0.0-7800.noarch.rpm	The Recovery Kit for SAP HANA provides fault resilient protection for SAP HANA databases in a LifeKeeper for Linux environment.
Recovery Kit for SAP MaxDB	steeleye-lkSAPDB-10.0.0-7800.noarch.rpm	The Recovery Kit for SAP MaxDB provides fault resilient protection for SAP MaxDB databases in a LifeKeeper for Linux environment.
Recovery Kit for IBM Db2 Database	steeleye-lkDB2-10.0.0-7800.noarch.rpm	The Recovery Kit for IBM Db2 Database provides fault resilient protection for DB2 database instances. LifeKeeper together with the DB2 Universal Database product family afford increased availability to DB2 operating environments by effectively recovering database server failures without significant down-time or human intervention.
Recovery Kit for Oracle Database	steeleye-lkORA-10.0.0-7800.noarch.rpm	The Recovery Kit for Oracle Database provides fault resilience for Oracle software in a LifeKeeper environment furnishing a mechanism to tie the data integrity of Oracle databases to the increased availability provided by LifeKeeper.
Recovery Kit for MySQL	steeleye-lkSQL-10.0.0-7800.noarch.rpm	The Recovery Kit for MySQL provides an easy way to add LifeKeeper fault‑resilient protection for MySQL resources and databases enabling a failure on the primary database server to be recovered on a designated backup server without significant lost time or human intervention.
Recovery Kit for PostgreSQL	steeleye-lkPGSQL-10.0.0-7800.noarch.rpm	The Recovery Kit for PostgreSQL is an SQL compliant, object-relational database management system (ORDBMS) based on POSTGRES providing a mechanism for protecting PostgreSQL instances within LifeKeeper.
Recovery Kit for SAP ASE	steeleye-lkSYBASE-10.0.0-7800.noarch.rpm	The Recovery Kit for SAP ASE provides LifeKeeper resource protection for the SAP ASE components Adaptive Server, Monitor Server, and Backup Server.
Recovery Kit for NFS Server	steeleye-lkNFS-10.0.0-7800.noarch.rpm	The Recovery Kit for NFS Server provides fault resilience for Network File System (NFS) software in a LifeKeeper environment enabling a failure on the primary NFS server to be recovered on a designated backup server without significant lost time or human intervention.
Recovery Kit for Network Attached Storage	steeleye-lkNAS-10.0.0-7800.noarch.rpm	The Recovery Kit for Network Attached Storage provides fault resilience for Network File System (NFS) software in a LifeKeeper environment affording LifeKeeper users the opportunity to employ an exported NFS file system as the storage basis for LifeKeeper hierarchies. NFS over UDP is not supported on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and later. Some environments may require additional configurations. Refer to Specific Configuration Considerations for details.
Recovery Kit for Logical Volume Manager	steeleye-lkLVM-10.0.0-7800.noarch.rpm	The Recovery Kit for Logical Volume Manager (LVM) provides logical volume support for other LifeKeeper recovery kits allowing LifeKeeper-protected applications to take advantage of the benefits offered by the Logical Volume Manager, including simplified storage management and the ability to dynamically re-size volumes as needs change.
Recovery Kit for PowerPath	steeleye-lkPPATH-10.0.0-7800.noarch.rpm	The Recovery Kit for PowerPath protects applications that use EMC PowerPath multipath I/O devices.
Recovery Kit for Device Mapper Multipath (DMMP)	steeleye-lkDMMP-10.0.0-7800.noarch.rpm	The Recovery Kit for Device Mapper Multipath (DMMP) protects applications and file systems that use DMMP devices allowing LifeKeeper to operate with and protect these applications and file systems.
Recovery Kit for Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager Software (HDLM)	steeleye-lkHDLM-10.0.0-7800.noarch.rpm	The Recovery Kit for Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager Software (HDLM) protects applications that use Hitachi Dynamic Link Manager Software devices.
DataKeeper	steeleye-lkDR-10.0.0-7800.noarch.rpm	DataKeeper provides an integrated data mirroring capability for LifeKeeper environments enabling LifeKeeper resources to operate in shared and non-shared storage environments.
Recovery Kit for DRBD	steeleye-lkDRBD-10.0.0-7800.noarch.rpm	The Recovery Kit for Distributed Replicated Block Device (DRBD) provides replicated storage for other LifeKeeper for Linux Recovery Kits. Thus, LifeKeeper-protected applications can take advantage of the benefits offered by DRBD to build a high availability cluster without shared storage.
Recovery Kit for IBM MQ	steeleye-lkMQS-10.0.0-7800.noarch.rpm	The Recovery Kit for IBM MQ provides fault resilient protection for IBM MQ queue managers and queue manager storage locations enabling a failure on a primary IBM MQ server or queue manager to be recovered on the primary server or a designated backup server without significant lost time or human intervention.
Quorum/Witness Kit	steeleye-lkQWK-10.0.0-7800.noarch.rpm	The Quorum/Witness Kit allows a node to get a “second opinion” on the status of a failing node acting as an intermediary to determine which servers are part of the cluster. When determining when to fail over, the Witness Server, or Storage Witness, allows resources to be brought in service on a backup server only in cases where it verifies the primary server has failed and is no longer part of the cluster. Note: Quorum is required for all 2 node DataKeeper clusters. Each 2 node cluster must use its own quorum/witness node. Shared witness servers are not recommended.
Recovery Kit for Amazon EC2™	steeleye-lkECC-10.0.0-7800.noarch.rpm	The Recovery Kit for Amazon EC2 provides a mechanism to recover an Elastic IP from a failed primary server to a backup server. It also provides a mechanism to enable the IP Recovery Kit to work in multiple availability zones.
Recovery Kit for Amazon Route 53™	steeleye-lkROUTE53-10.0.0-7800.noarch.rpm	The Recovery Kit for Amazon Route 53 provides a mechanism for updating Amazon Route 53 DNS information corresponding to a virtual IP address and an actual IP address information of IP resources that are in dependency relation when switching to a failed primary server to a backup server.
Recovery Kit for VMDK as Shared Storage	steeleye-lkVMDK-10.0.0-7800.noarch.rpm	With the Recovery Kit for VMDK as Shared Storage, VMware virtual hard disks and their file systems used as shared disks can be protected as LifeKeeper resources.
Recovery Kit for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure	steeleye-lkOCIVIP-10.0.0-7800.noarch.rpm	Communication via a virtual IP address using the Recovery Kit for IP Address is allowed in the Oracle Cloud environment.
Recovery Kit for SCSI3	steeleye-lkSCSI3-10.0.0-7800.noarch.rpm	The Recovery Kit for SCSI3 protects applications and file systems that use the standard Linux SCSI device interface (/dev/sd device nodes) with SCSI-3 persistent reservations.
Recovery Kit for Load Balancer Health Check	steeleye-lkLBHC-10.0.0-7800.noarch.rpm	The Recovery Kit for Load balancer Health Check replaces the Generic Load Balancer (GenLB) Recovery Kit. The GenLB recovery kit was a collection of action scripts available for download for 9.6.1 to be used with a generic application (gen/app) resource. The GenLB kit has been migrated to a full ARK for ease of use.
Recovery Kit for JP1/AJS	steeleye-lkJP1AJS-10.0.0-7800.noarch.rpm	Recovery Kit for JP1/AJS provides fault-tolerant protection for the integrated system management software “JP1” developed by Hitachi, Ltd.
Recovery Kit for HULFT	steeleye-lkHUL-10.0.0-7800.noarch.rpm	SIOS LifeKeeper® for Linux Recovery Kit for HULFT enhances the disaster recovery capabilities of HULFT software in a LifeKeeper environment.

LifeKeeper Web Management Console

The LifeKeeper Management Console (LKWMC) is a web-based user interface for administering LifeKeeper for Linux clusters. The LKWMC bundle includes the following installable packages:

Package	Package Name	Description
LifeKeeper Web Management Console	steeleye-lkWMC-10.0.0-838.x86_64.rpm	The LifeKeeper Web Management Console package is a web-based user interface for managing LifeKeeper for Linux.
LifeKeeper REST API	steeleye-lkrestapi-10.0.0-7637.noarch.rpm	The LifeKeeper REST API package allows the LifeKeeper Web Management Console to interact with the LifeKeeper Core.