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Recovery Kits
LifeKeeper Single Server Protection » Recovery Kits
LifeKeeper Single Server Protection for Linux Recovery Kits (ARKs) include tools and utilities that allow SSP to manage and control a specific application. The following optional recovery kits are available with this release of SSP. !IMPORTANT: End of Support for…
DRBD Recovery Kit
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Data Replication » DRBD Recovery Kit
The LifeKeeper for Linux Distributed Replicated Block Device (DRBD) Recovery Kit 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…
IP Local Recovery
LifeKeeper for Linux Technical Documentation » Fault Detection and Recovery Scenarios » IP Local Recovery
Local Recovery Scenario When a failure of an IP address is detected by the IP Recovery Kit, the resulting failure triggers the execution of the IP local recovery script which is responsible for running remove and restore functions. *SIOS recommends the use of bonded…
SAP Recovery Kit Overview
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for SAP Administration Guide » SAP Recovery Kit Overview
There are some services in the SAP NetWeaver framework that cannot be replicated. They cannot exist more than once for the same SAP system, therefore, they are single points of failure. The LifeKeeper SAP Recovery Kit or Oracle Recovery Kit provides protection for…
Server Failure Recovery Scenario
LifeKeeper for Linux Technical Documentation » Fault Detection and Recovery Scenarios » Server Failure Recovery Scenario
The LifeKeeper Communications Manager (LCM) has two functions: Messaging. The LCM serves as a conduit through which LifeKeeper sends messages during recovery, configuration, or when running an audit. Failure detection. The LCM also plays a role in detecting…
Apache Recovery Kit Requirements
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for Apache Administration Guide » Apache Recovery Kit Requirements
Before attempting to install or remove the Apache Recovery Kit, you must understand the hardware and software requirements for the package and the installation and removal procedures. Kit Hardware and Software Requirements Before installing and configuring the Apache…
MQ Recovery Kit Features
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for IBM MQ Administration Guide » Recovery Kit for IBM MQ Overview » MQ Recovery Kit Features
The WebSphere MQ Recovery Kit provides the following features: Supports mult-instance Queue Managers (queue managers created with multiple versions of MQ software) Supports Active/Active configurations Supports LINEAR and CIRCULAR logging (detected…
MQ Recovery Kit Abbreviations
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for IBM MQ Administration Guide » MQ Recovery Kit Abbreviations
The following abbreviations are used throughout this document: Abbreviation Meaning HA Highly Available, High Availability QMDIR WebSphere MQ queue manager directory. This directory holds the queue manager persistent…
NAS Recovery Kit Overview
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for Network Attached Storage Administration Guide » NAS Recovery Kit Overview
LifeKeeper for Linux NAS Recovery Kit The primary focus of the LifeKeeper for Linux NAS Recovery Kit is to offer LifeKeeper users an alternative storage method to shared storage and data replication. The NAS Recovery Kit enables the creation of LifeKeeper resource…
Update SAP Recovery Level
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for SAP Administration Guide » SAP Administration » Update SAP Recovery Level
The Recovery Level provides instruction for the resource in the event of a failure. To find out what your current recovery level is or to change this option, go to Update Recovery Level. The recovery level can be set to FULL, LOCAL or REMOTE. Right-click your…
Recovery Kit-Specific Properties
LifeKeeper Web Management Console (LKWMC) » LKWMC GUI Operations and Layout » Resource » Properties » Recovery Kit-Specific Properties
*This documentation section describes the LifeKeeper Web Management Console (LKWMC). Refer to the LifeKeeper Web Management Console for an overview. This section displays recovery kit-specific settings which vary by resource type. Hovering over the information icon…
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…
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…
DB2 Recovery Kit Overview
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for IBM Db2 Database Administration Guide » DB2 Recovery Kit Overview
LifeKeeper for Linux DB2 Recovery Kit In versions 8 and greater, DB2 UDB Enterprise Edition (EE) and Enterprise-Extended Edition (EEE) have been combined into a single product named DB2 UDB Enterprise Server Edition (ESE). Previous versions included two separate…
IP Recovery Kit Requirements
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for IP Address Administration Guide » IP Recovery Kit Requirements
Before attempting to install or remove the IP Recovery Kit, you must understand the hardware and software requirements for the package and the installation and removal procedures. Hardware and Software Requirements Before installing and configuring the LifeKeeper IP…
IP Recovery Kit Configuration
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for IP Address Administration Guide » IP Recovery Kit Configuration
To ensure that your LifeKeeper configuration provides the protection and flexibility you require, you need to be aware of the configuration rules. To appropriately plan your configuration, you must understand your network configuration, interface selection, user system…
DRBD Recovery Kit Overview
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Data Replication » DRBD Recovery Kit » DRBD Recovery Kit Overview
The LifeKeeper for Linux DRBD Recovery Kit provides the ability to configure and control DRBD resources. The DRBD User’s Guide describes that “DRBD is a software-based, shared-nothing, replicated storage solution mirroring the content of block devices (hard disks,…
MQ Recovery Kit Resource Hierarchies
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for IBM MQ Administration Guide » Recovery Kit for IBM MQ Overview » MQ Recovery Kit Resource Hierarchies
A typical WebSphere MQ hierarchy will be comprised of a WebSphere MQ queue manager resource. It also contains one or more file system resources, depending on the file system layout and zero or more IP resources. The exact makeup of the hierarchy depends on what is…
Resource Monitoring and Local Recovery
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Administration Guide » Resource Monitoring and Local Recovery
Recovery Kit for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (RK for OCI) Quick Check The RK for OCI runs the following command to verify that the secondary private IP address is assigned to the VNIC on the active node. oci network private-ip list --vnic-id --query…
Common SAP Recovery Kit Tasks
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for SAP Administration Guide » SAP Installation » Common SAP Recovery Kit Tasks
The following tasks are described in the Administration section within the LifeKeeper for Linux Technical Documentation because they are common tasks with steps that are identical across all Recovery Kits. Create a Resource Dependency. Creates a parent/child…
SAP Protection/Recovery Level Recommendations
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for SAP Administration Guide » SAP Administration » SAP Protection/Recovery Level Recommendations
SAP Recovery Kit ASCS/ERS Resource Type Settings LifeKeeper Version SAP Kit Resource Type ENSA/ERS Version Default Protection Level Default Recovery Level 9.3.2 or earlier TYPE_CS (1) ENSAv1 FULL REMOTE…
Recovery Kit for MySQL Configuration
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for MySQL Administration Guide » Recovery Kit for MySQL Configuration
This section contains definitions and examples of typical LifeKeeper MySQL configurations and information you should consider before you start to configure MySQL. Please refer to the Resource Hierarchies section of the LifeKeeper for Linux Technical Documentation for…
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…
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…
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…
IP Local Recovery and Configuration
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for IP Address Administration Guide » IP Recovery Kit Configuration » IP Local Recovery and Configuration
The standard Linux NIC bonding mechanism is the recommended means of providing network interface redundancy in a high availability configuration. The LifeKeeper IP Recovery Kit fully supports the creation of virtual IP addresses on bonded interfaces. Local Recovery…
IP Recovery Kit Configuration Examples
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for IP Address Administration Guide » IP Recovery Kit Configuration » IP Recovery Kit Configuration Examples
This topic identifies example network configurations and then describes two sample IP configuration exercises. The first example illustrates a typical case of a database application dependent upon a single IP resource and configured on a pre-existing subnet. The second…
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 SAP ASE Overview
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for SAP ASE Administration Guide » Recovery Kit for SAP ASE Overview
The Recovery Kit for SAP ASE provides a mechanism for protecting SAP ASE Server instances within LifeKeeper. The SAP ASE software, LifeKeeper Core and Recovery Kit for SAP ASE are installed on two or more servers in a cluster. Once the SAP ASE Server instance is under…
Recovery Kit for SAP ASE Administration
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for SAP ASE Administration Guide » Recovery Kit for SAP ASE Administration
Resource Hierarchy Administration Provides important recommendations for ongoing administration of the SAP ASE hierarchy. The following tasks may be required after your resource hierarchies have been created. Modifying Protection for the SAP Backup…
Recovery Kit for SAP MaxDB Overview
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for SAP MaxDB Administration Guide » Recovery Kit for SAP MaxDB Overview
The LifeKeeper for Linux SAP MaxDB Recovery Kit provides a mechanism for protecting SAP MaxDB instances within LifeKeeper. The SAP MaxDB software, LifeKeeper Core and SAP MaxDB Recovery Kit are installed on two or more servers in a cluster. Once the SAP MaxDB database…
Recovery Kit for PostgreSQL Administration Guide
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for PostgreSQL Administration Guide
The LifeKeeper for Linux Recovery Kit for PostgreSQL is an SQL compliant, object-relational database management system (ORDBMS) based on POSTGRES. Since its inception, PostgreSQL has become one of the most advanced open source relational database management…
Recovery Kit for HULFT Administration Guide
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for HULFT Administration Guide
Introduction SIOS LifeKeeper® for Linux Recovery Kit for HULFT enhances the disaster recovery capabilities of HULFT software in a LifeKeeper environment.
LifeKeeper VMDK Recovery Kit Configuration Tasks
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for VMDK as Shared Storage Administration Guide » LifeKeeper VMDK Recovery Kit Configuration Tasks
You can perform all LifeKeeper for Linux VMDK Recovery Kit administrative tasks via the LifeKeeper Graphical User Interface (GUI). The LifeKeeper GUI provides a guided interface to configure, administer, and monitor VMDK resources. The following tasks are available…
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…
Recovery Kit for Quick Service Protection
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for Quick Service Protection
The Recovery Kit for Quick Service Protection (hereafter referred to as the Recovery Kit for QSP) provides a simplified method to protect the OS service. With the Recovery Kit for QSP, users can easily create a LifeKeeper resource instance to protect an OS service…
Recovery Kit for NFS Server Requirements
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for NFS Server Administration Guide » Recovery Kit for NFS Server Requirements
Before installing and configuring the Recovery Kit, be sure that your configuration meets the following requirements: Servers The Recovery Kit requires servers configured in accordance with the LifeKeeper requirements described in the LifeKeeper for Linux Technical…
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 …
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 …
Recovery Kit for IBM MQ Requirements
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for IBM MQ Administration Guide » Recovery Kit for IBM MQ Requirements
Your LifeKeeper configuration must meet the following requirements prior to the installation of the WebSphere MQ Recovery Kit. Please see the LifeKeeper Installation Guide for specific instructions regarding the installation, removal and configuration of your…
Recovery Kit for IBM MQ Overview
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for IBM MQ Administration Guide » Recovery Kit for IBM MQ Overview
WebSphere MQ (formerly known as MQSeries) is an IBM software product that provides reliable and guaranteed one time only delivery of messages. The core element of WebSphere MQ is the queue manager which handles one or more queues that are used to send (put) and receive…
Configuring the Recovery Kit for NAS
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for Network Attached Storage Administration Guide » Configuring the Recovery Kit for NAS
This section describes the LifeKeeper for Linux NAS Recovery Kit configuration details. It also contains information you should consider before you start to configure and administer the NAS Recovery Kit. Please refer to LifeKeeper for Linux Technical Documentation for…
Recovery Kit for NFS Server Overview
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for NFS Server Administration Guide » Recovery Kit for NFS Server Overview
The NFS Server Recovery Kit provides a High Availability NFS service in hierarchical cooperation with the Filesystem Recovery Kit (provided as part of the steeleye-lk package) and the IP Recovery Kit (steeleye-lkIP). The kit ensures that an IP resource and a file…
Adjusting SAP Recovery Kit Tunable Values
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for SAP Administration Guide » SAP Administration » Adjusting SAP Recovery Kit Tunable Values
Several of the SAP scripts have been written with a timeout feature to allow hung scripts to automatically kill themselves. This feature is required due to potential problems with unavailable NFS shares. This is explained in greater detail in the NFS Mounts and su…
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 …
Recovery Kit for MySQL Administration Guide
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for MySQL Administration Guide
The LifeKeeper for Linux Recovery Kit for MySQL provides an easy way to add LifeKeeper fault‑resilient protection for MySQL resources and databases. This enables a failure on the primary database server to be recovered on a designated standby server without…
Recovery Kit for MySQL Operations Overview
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for MySQL Administration Guide » Recovery Kit for MySQL Operations Overview
Bringing a Resource In Service (restore) Start the MySQL resource in the following order. Check the same items as in the monitoring process described later to confirm that MySQL is running. If it is determined that MySQL is running, the startup process ends…
DRBD Recovery Kit Known Issues / Restrictions
LifeKeeper for Linux Technical Documentation » Troubleshooting » Known Issues and Restrictions » DRBD Recovery Kit Known Issues / Restrictions
Description DRBD resource files are not deleted from /opt/LifeKeeper/subsys/scsi/resources/drbd/ when a resource is paused. If you delete a drbd resource while it is paused it will leave files in /opt/LifeKeeper/subsys/scsi/resources/drbd/ when a…
NAS Recovery Kit – Known Issues / Restrictions
LifeKeeper for Linux Technical Documentation » Troubleshooting » Known Issues and Restrictions » NAS Recovery Kit – Known Issues / Restrictions
Description Autofs is not supported File system managed by autofs cannot be protected.
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide
LifeKeeper for Linux Recovery Kits include tools and utilities that allow LifeKeeper to manage and control a specific application. The following optional recovery kits are available with this release of LifeKeeper. !IMPORTANT: End of Support for Designated SIOS…
Recovery Kit for Apache Administration Guide
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for Apache Administration Guide
The LifeKeeper for Linux Recovery Kit for Apache provides fault resilience for Apache Web Server software in a LifeKeeper environment. This guide explains the following topics: LifeKeeper for Linux Documentation. A list of all the LifeKeeper for Linux documentation…
Recovery Kit for EC2™ Configuration
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for Amazon EC2™ Administration Guide » Recovery Kit for EC2™ Configuration
To ensure that your LifeKeeper configuration provides the protection and flexibility you require you’ll need to be aware of the configuration requirements. To appropriately plan your configuration you must understand Amazon, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud, (VPC),…
EC2™ Local Recovery and Configuration
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for Amazon EC2™ Administration Guide » Recovery Kit for EC2™ Configuration » EC2™ Local Recovery and Configuration
Local Recovery Scenario (Backend Cluster): When a failure of the protected Route Table is detected by Recovery Kit for EC2™, the resulting failure triggers the execution of the EC2™ local recovery script. The local recovery gathers specified IP resource entries in…
Recovery Kit for EC2™ Overview
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for Amazon EC2™ Administration Guide » Recovery Kit for EC2™ Overview
The Recovery Kit for EC2™ has two features: “Route Table Scenario” and “Elastic IP Scenario”. An overview of these features is provided below. Route table scenario (backend cluster): Manage a route table to allow clients to connect to…
Recovery Kit for EC2™ Requirements
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for Amazon EC2™ Administration Guide » Recovery Kit for EC2™ Requirements
Before attempting to install or remove the Recovery Kit for EC2™ you must understand Amazon Web Service software requirements, as well as the installation and removal procedures for the Recovery Kit for EC2™ package. Amazon Web Service and Software…
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…
IP Recovery Kit Principles of Operation
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for IP Address Administration Guide » IP Recovery Kit Principles of Operation
Virtual IP Resource LifeKeeper brings an IP resource into service by creating an IP alias address on one of the physical network interfaces on the primary server. Users connect to the node using this alias address. The IP Recovery Kit software performs checks to help…
Logical Volume Manager Recovery Kit Requirements
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for Logical Volume Manager Administration Guide » Logical Volume Manager Recovery Kit Requirements
Your LifeKeeper configuration must meet the following requirements prior to the installation of the LifeKeeper for Linux Logical Volume Manager Recovery Kit. Please see the LifeKeeper for Linux Installation Guide for specific instructions regarding the configuration of…
Adjusting IP Recovery Kit Tunable Values
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for IP Address Administration Guide » IP Recovery Kit Configuration » Adjusting IP Recovery Kit Tunable Values
For details about the tunable values that are available for modifying the behavior of the IP Recovery Kit, please click here. These values are tuned by editing the /etc/default/LifeKeeper configuration file. Because none of the components of the IP Recovery Kit are…
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 SAP Administration Guide
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for SAP Administration Guide
The LifeKeeper for Linux Recovery Kit for SAP provides a mechanism to recover SAP NetWeaver from a failed primary server onto a backup server in a LifeKeeper environment. The Recovery Kit for SAP works in conjunction with other LifeKeeper Recovery Kits (the Recovery…
Recovery Kit for SAP ASE Administration Guide
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for SAP ASE Administration Guide
SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise is a powerful data management platform for high performance business applications. SAP ASE is a versatile, enterprise-class RDBMS that is especially good at handling OLTP workloads. SAP ASE is used widely in financial, E-commerce, and…
Recovery Kit for SAP ASE Configuration Considerations
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for SAP ASE Administration Guide » Recovery Kit for SAP ASE Configuration Considerations
Configuration Considerations Contains information to consider before you install and configure the Recovery Kit for SAP ASE…
Recovery Kit for SAP MaxDB Administration Guide
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for SAP MaxDB Administration Guide
SAP MaxDB is a SQL-based, industrial-strength database system that can be deployed for a wide array of purposes. It is highly scalable, platform-independent and provides full transaction support. The database system was originally owned by SAP but has since been…
Recovery Kit for SAP HANA Administration Guide
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for SAP HANA Administration Guide
*Beginning in v9.5.0 SIOS has released the new Recovery Kit for SAP HANA. SIOS will continue to support the SAP HANA gen/app based Recovery Kit with the 9.4.x releases until March 31, 2022. If you are using LifeKeeper for Linux v9.5 or later you must use the new…
Recovery Kit for SAP HANA Requirements Overview
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for SAP HANA Administration Guide » Recovery Kit for SAP HANA Requirements Overview
The SAP HANA Recovery Kit is compatible with SAP HANA Platform 2 (SP04 or later). SAP HANA provides three different mechanisms to increase availability. Host Auto-Failover – At least one standby node added to a SAP HANA system. These nodes are configured to work…
Recovery Kit for Route 53™ Configuration
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for Amazon Route 53™ Administration Guide » Recovery Kit for Route 53™ Configuration
To configure LifeKeeper to provide the required protection capability and flexibility, you need to know the configuration requirements. You also need to understand Amazon, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon 53 and hierarchy…
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…
Recovery Kit for Route 53™ Requirements
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for Amazon Route 53™ Administration Guide » Recovery Kit for Route 53™ Requirements
Prior to installing and configuring the Recovery Kit for Route 53™, be sure your configuration meets the following requirements. AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) must be installed on all EC2 instances. Refer to Installing AWS Command Line Interface” for…
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 …
Recovery Kit for IBM MQ Administration Guide
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for IBM MQ Administration Guide
The LifeKeeper for Linux Recovery Kit for IBM MQ provides fault resilient protection for IBM MQ queue managers and queue manager storage locations. This kit enables a failure on a primary IBM MQ server or queue manager to be recovered on the primary server or a…
Changing LifeKeeper WebSphere MQ Recovery Kit Defaults
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for IBM MQ Administration Guide » LifeKeeper Configuration Tasks for MQ » Editing MQ Configuration Resource Properties » Changing LifeKeeper WebSphere MQ Recovery Kit Defaults
The IBM WebSphere MQ Recovery Kit uses a number of default values which can be tuned and modified if you have problems with the default settings. The default settings should be sufficient for most environments. If you have problems with timeouts you can use the…
NAS Recovery Kit Hardware and Software Requirements
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for Network Attached Storage Administration Guide » NAS Recovery Kit Hardware and Software Requirements
Requirements Your LifeKeeper configuration must meet the following requirements prior to the installation of the LifeKeeper for Linux NAS Recovery Kit. Please see LifeKeeper for Linux Installation Guide for specific instructions regarding the configuration of your…
Recovery Kit for NFS Server Configuration Considerations
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for NFS Server Administration Guide » Recovery Kit for NFS Server Configuration Considerations
These following sections contain information to be considered before starting to configure and administer the NFS Server Recovery Kit as well as examples of typical LifeKeeper NFS configurations. Please refer to LifeKeeper for Linux Technical Documentation for…
Recovery Kit for NFS Server Administration Guide
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for NFS Server Administration Guide
The LifeKeeper for Linux Recovery Kit for NFS Server provides fault resilience for Network File System (NFS) software in a LifeKeeper environment. This enables a failure on the primary NFS server to be recovered on a designated backup server without significant lost…
Recovery Kit for Oracle Database Administration Guide
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for Oracle Database Administration Guide
The LifeKeeper for Linux Recovery Kit for Oracle Database provides fault resilience for Oracle software in a LifeKeeper environment. The Recovery Kit software furnishes a mechanism to tie the data integrity of Oracle databases to the increased availability provided by…
Oracle Recovery Kit Hardware and Software Requirements
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for Oracle Database Administration Guide » Oracle Recovery Kit Hardware and Software Requirements
Before attempting to install or remove the LifeKeeper Oracle Recovery Kit, you must understand the hardware and software requirements and the installation and removal procedures. Be sure that your configuration meets the following requirements: Servers. The Recovery…
Recovery Kit for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Notes
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Administration Guide » Recovery Kit for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Notes
When you create a Recovery Kit for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (RK for OCI) resource, the corresponding IP resource is created. If an IP resource already exists before the RK for OCI resource is created: It matches the configuration of the RK for OCI resource and a…
Route 53™ Resource Monitoring and Recovery
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for Amazon Route 53™ Administration Guide » Recovery Kit for Route 53™ Configuration » Route 53™ Resource Monitoring and Recovery
The Route 53 resource monitors the normality of the retrieval of the DNS A record registered at the time of creation and the association with the virtual IP address. The monitoring process is as follows. Obtain the address set in the Route 53 A record with API. If…
Assign Permission to Use EC2 Recovery Kit
Evaluation Guides » LifeKeeper Evaluation Guide for Cloud Environments » Install LifeKeeper for Linux » Amazon Web Services » Assign Permission to Use EC2 Recovery Kit
!In order to complete the following steps, the AWS CLI must be installed on each node. See Additional Environment Specific Tasks to Complete for more information. To use the EC2 Recovery Kit, the instance must have Roles that are allowed to update the RouteTable…
Recovery Kit for Quick Service Protection (QSP)
LifeKeeper Single Server Protection » LifeKeeper Single Server Protection for Linux Technical Documentation » Administration » Recovery Kit for Quick Service Protection (QSP)
The Recovery Kit for Quick Service Protection (hereafter referred to as the Recovery Kit for QSP) provides a simplified method to protect the OS service. With the Recovery Kit for QSP users can easily create a LifeKeeper resource instance to protect an OS service…
SAP Recovery Kit – Known Issues / Restrictions
LifeKeeper for Linux Technical Documentation » Troubleshooting » Known Issues and Restrictions » SAP Recovery Kit – Known Issues / Restrictions
Description A split brain may occur for ERS v2 resources while processing a restored comm path If an SAP cluster is configured with quorum and both the ASCS and ERS v2 resources reside on the same node when the communication path is restored to…
Recovery Kit for EC2™ Configuration Examples
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for Amazon EC2™ Administration Guide » Recovery Kit for EC2™ Configuration Examples
Below are configuration examples for a route table scenario (backend cluster) and an Elastic IP scenario (frontend cluster). Route Table scenario (Backend Cluster): To clarify the administration and operation of Route Table, consider the scenario shown in Figure…
Recovery Kit for EC2™ Operations Overview
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for Amazon EC2™ Administration Guide » Recovery Kit for EC2™ Operations Overview
Each operation is performed based on the AWS CLI provided by Amazon Web Services. The Recovery Kit for EC2 works differently depending on the resource type specified during resource creation. Please refer to the following depending on the resource type you are…
Recovery Kit for IP Address Administration Guide
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for IP Address Administration Guide
The LifeKeeper for Linux Recovery Kit for IP Address provides a mechanism to recover an IP address from a failed primary server to a backup server in a LifeKeeper environment. The Recovery Kit for IP Address can define an IP address that can be used to connect to a…
Recovery Kit for JP1/AJS Administration Guide
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for JP1/AJS Administration Guide
Overview The Recovery Kit for JP1/AJS provides fault-tolerant protection for the integrated system management software “JP1” developed by Hitachi, Ltd. If a failure occurs in the protected JP1 software, LifeKeeper first attempts recovery on its primary server. If…
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 VMDK as Shared Storage Overview
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for VMDK as Shared Storage Administration Guide » Recovery Kit for VMDK as Shared Storage Overview
The primary focus of the LifeKeeper for Linux VMDK Recovery Kit is to offer LifeKeeper users an alternative storage method for shared storage and data replication. The VMDK Recovery Kit enables the creation of LifeKeeper resource hierarchies on LifeKeeper protected…
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…
Recovery Kit for PostgreSQL Hardware and Software Requirements
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for PostgreSQL Administration Guide » Recovery Kit for PostgreSQL Hardware and Software Requirements
Your LifeKeeper configuration must meet the following requirements prior to the installation of Recovery Kit for PostgreSQL. Please refer to the LifeKeeper for Linux Installation Guide for specific instructions regarding the installation and configuration of your…
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 Network Attached Storage Administration Guide
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for Network Attached Storage Administration Guide
Recovery Kit for Network Attached Storage (hereafter referred to as the Recovery Kit for NAS) provides fault resilience for Network File System (NFS) software in a LifeKeeper environment. The Recovery Kit for NAS affords LifeKeeper users the opportunity to employ an…
Recovery Kit for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Administration Guide
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Administration Guide
Recovery Kit for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (RK for OCI) The RK for OCI provides a mechanism for using virtual IP addresses with the Recovery Kit or IP Address on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). For more information on the functionalities, scenarios and…
Recovery Kit for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Parameters List
Parameters List » Recovery Kit for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Parameters List
The table below lists and explains names and meanings of the Recovery Kit for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (RK for OCI) parameters. These values are tuned by editing the /etc/default/LifeKeeper configuration file. The parameters of RK for OCI will take effect…
Enabled VMware HA Fault Detection and Recovery Scenario
LifeKeeper Single Server Protection » LifeKeeper Single Server Protection for Linux Technical Documentation » Administration » Enabled VMware HA Fault Detection and Recovery Scenario
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…
Configuring the LifeKeeper for Linux DRBD Recovery Kit
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Data Replication » DRBD Recovery Kit » Configuring the LifeKeeper for Linux DRBD Recovery Kit
This section describes the LifeKeeper for Linux DRBD Recovery Kit configuration details. It also contains information you should consider before you start to configure and administer the DRBD Recovery Kit. Please refer to LifeKeeper for Linux Technical Documentation…
Recovery Kit for MySQL Hardware and Software Requirements
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Recovery Kit for MySQL Administration Guide » Recovery Kit for MySQL Hardware and Software Requirements
Before you can install and set up the recovery software, your server must meet certain hardware and software requirements. You should refer to the LifeKeeper for Linux Installation Guide for specific instructions on how to install or remove the LifeKeeper Recovery Kit…
Running LifeKeeper DRBD Recovery Kit With a Firewall
Recovery Kits Administrator’s Guide » Data Replication » DRBD Recovery Kit » Running LifeKeeper DRBD Recovery Kit With a Firewall
When using the LifeKeeper DRBD Recovery Kit, the firewall should be configured to allow access to any of the ports used by DRBD for replication. The LifeKeeper DRBD Recovery Kit will use ports starting with port 7788 (set during creation of the DRBD resource with the…
Running LifeKeeper DataKeeper Recovery Kit With a Firewall
LifeKeeper for Linux Technical Documentation » User Guide » Using LifeKeeper for Linux » Maintenance Tasks » Running LifeKeeper DataKeeper Recovery Kit With a Firewall
The LifeKeeper DataKeeper Recovery Kit can work with a firewall in place on the same server if you address the following network access requirements. *Note: If you wish to change or disable your firewall, please follow the procedure recommended by your OS…
Recovering from a Panic during a Manual Recovery
LifeKeeper for Linux Technical Documentation » Troubleshooting » Recovering from a Panic during a Manual Recovery
A PANIC during manual switchover may cause incomplete recovery. If a PANIC or other major system failure occurs during a manual switchover, complete automatic recovery to the back-up system cannot be assured. Check the backup system to make sure all resources required…