Administration

LifeKeeper Single Server Protection Administration Overview

LifeKeeper Single Server Protection does not require administration during operation. LifeKeeper Single Server Protection works automatically to monitor protected resources and to perform the specified recovery actions if a fault should occur. You use the LifeKeeper Single Server Protection GUI in these cases:

• Resource and hierarchy definition. LifeKeeper Single Server Protection provides these interface options:
  

  
  º LifeKeeper Single Server Protection GUI.
  
  º LifeKeeper Single Server Protection command line interface.

• Resource monitoring. The LifeKeeper Single Server Protection GUI provides access to resource status information and to the LifeKeeper Single Server Protection logs.

• Manual intervention. You may need to stop servers or specific resources for maintenance or other administrative actions. The LifeKeeper Single Server Protection GUI provides menu functions that allow you to bring specific resources in and out of service. Once applications have been placed under LifeKeeper Single Server Protection, they should be started and stopped only through these LifeKeeper Single Server Protection interfaces. Starting and stopping LifeKeeper Single Server Protection is done through the command line only.

See Administration Tasks, GUI Tasks, and Maintenance Tasks in the LifeKeeper for Linux documentation for detailed instructions on performing administration, configuration, and maintenance operations including the creation of resource hierarchies.

*Note: All LifeKeeper executable scripts and programs run via the command line require super user authority. A super user (granted permissions by running the “su” or “sudo” command) is able to execute LifeKeeper commands. However, SIOS Technology Corp has tested executing LifeKeeper commands via the root user only.