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Troubleshooting
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Troubleshooting
LifeKeeper Single Server Protection » LifeKeeper Single Server Protection for Linux Technical Documentation » Troubleshooting
This section contains restrictions and/or known issues open against LifeKeeper Single Server Protection.
Troubleshooting
LifeKeeper for Linux Technical Documentation » LifeKeeper » 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…
GUI
LifeKeeper for Linux Technical Documentation » LifeKeeper » User Guide » Using LifeKeeper for Linux » GUI
The GUI components should have already been installed as part of the LifeKeeper Core installation. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GUI Overview…
Oracle Troubleshooting
Application Recovery Kits » Oracle Recovery Kit 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…
NAS Troubleshooting
Application Recovery Kits » NAS Recovery Kit Administration Guide » NAS Troubleshooting
Symptom Possible Cause LifeKeeper fail over operation fails with umount busy error. The file system kit used to build NAS hierarchies cannot detect and remove processes not protected by LifeKeeper that are using the mounted file system in…
MySQL Troubleshooting
Application Recovery Kits » MySQL Recovery Kit 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…
DB2 Troubleshooting
Application Recovery Kits » DB2 Recovery Kit Administration Guide » DB2 Troubleshooting
Symptom Possible Cause One or more of your DB2 EEE partition servers fail to start The db2nodes.cfg file’s port number may have erroneously outgrown the range set in the /etc/services file. View the number of ports set in the…
SNMP Troubleshooting
LifeKeeper for Linux Technical Documentation » LifeKeeper » 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…
VMDK Troubleshooting
Application Recovery Kits » VMDK Shared Storage Recovery Kit Administration Guide » VMDK Troubleshooting
Symptom Possible Cause Switching over a VMDK resource causes a system down on the original active node. Cause : When the quickCheck daemon PID file /tmp/LK-vmdk-* of a VMDK resource is deleted, a new quickCheck daemon is started by the…
Troubleshooting sapinit
Application Recovery Kits » SAP Recovery Kit Administration Guide » SAP Troubleshooting » Troubleshooting sapinit
Symptom: sapstartsrv processes and additional SAP instance processes started by init script fail or cause processes to run on LifeKeeper Standby Node. Cause: SAP provides an init script for automatically starting SAP instances on a local node. When a resource is…
NFS Troubleshooting
Application Recovery Kits » NFS Server Recovery Kit 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…
Samba Troubleshooting
Application Recovery Kits » Samba Recovery Kit Administration Guide » Samba Troubleshooting
Failure restoring Samba hierarchy Failure of a Samba hierarchy restore can leave the daemon processes smbd and nmbd running. (The restore operation is initiated via the completion of a create, failover, or manual switchover, or via a local recovery caused by a…
Postfix Troubleshooting
Application Recovery Kits » Postfix Recovery Kit Administration Guide » Postfix Troubleshooting
This section provides a list of messages that you may encounter during the process of creating, extending, removing and restoring a LifeKeeper Postfix hierarchy, and, where appropriate, provides additional explanation of the cause of the errors and necessary action to…
SAP Troubleshooting
Application Recovery Kits » SAP Recovery Kit 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…
PostgreSQL Troubleshooting
Application Recovery Kits » PostgreSQL Recovery Kit 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…
GUI Toolbar
LifeKeeper for Linux Technical Documentation » LifeKeeper » User Guide » Using LifeKeeper for Linux » GUI » Toolbars » GUI Toolbar
This toolbar is a combination of the default server and resource context toolbars which are displayed on the properties panel except that you must select a server and possibly a resource when you invoke actions from this toolbar. Connect. Connect…
WebSphere MQ Troubleshooting
Application Recovery Kits » WebSphere MQ Recovery Kit Administration Guide » WebSphere 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…
Email Notification Troubleshooting
LifeKeeper for Linux Technical Documentation » LifeKeeper » 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…
SAP HANA Troubleshooting
Application Recovery Kits » SAP HANA Recovery Kit Administration Guide » 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…
SAP MaxDB Troubleshooting
Application Recovery Kits » SAP MaxDB Recovery Kit 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…
GUI Mirror Administration
LifeKeeper for Linux Technical Documentation » DataKeeper » Administering SIOS DataKeeper for Linux » GUI Mirror Administration
A SIOS DataKeeper mirror can be administered through the LifeKeeper GUI in two ways: By enabling the Properties Panel and clicking the toolbar icons (shown in the screenshot). Click on each icon below for a description. OR By…
Lifekeeper GUI Overview
LifeKeeper for Linux Technical Documentation » LifeKeeper » User Guide » Using LifeKeeper for Linux » GUI » Preparing to Run the GUI » Lifekeeper GUI Overview
The LifeKeeper GUI uses Java technology to provide a graphical status interface to LifeKeeper and its configuration data. The LifeKeeper GUI allows users working on any machine to administer, operate, or monitor servers and resources in any cluster, as long as they…
Exiting the GUI
LifeKeeper for Linux Technical Documentation » LifeKeeper » User Guide » Using LifeKeeper for Linux » Exiting the GUI
Select Exit from the File Menu to disconnect from all servers and close the GUI window.
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. …
Configuring GUI Users
LifeKeeper for Linux Installation Guide » Setting Up Your LifeKeeper Environment » Configuring GUI Users
GUI Authentication with PAM LifeKeeper for Linux now leverages the Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) provided in the Linux Standard Base (LSB). LifeKeeper no longer uses its private password file once located in /opt/LifeKeeper/website/passwd. Instead, users are…
Apache Web Server Troubleshooting
Application Recovery Kits » Apache Recovery Kit 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…
Logical Volume Manager Troubleshooting
Application Recovery Kits » Logical Volume Manager Recovery Kit 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…
DataKeeper for Linux Troubleshooting
LifeKeeper for Linux Technical Documentation » 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…
LifeKeeper GUI Related Errors
Application Recovery Kits » NAS Recovery Kit 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…
Configuring the LifeKeeper GUI
LifeKeeper for Linux Technical Documentation » LifeKeeper » User Guide » Using LifeKeeper for Linux » GUI » Preparing to Run the GUI » Configuring the LifeKeeper GUI
Installing the LifeKeeper Server for GUI Administration Perform the following steps for each LifeKeeper server. Each step contains references or links for more detailed instructions. You must install the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) or Java Software Development…
GUI Overview – General
LifeKeeper for Linux Technical Documentation » LifeKeeper » User Guide » Using LifeKeeper for Linux » GUI » GUI Overview – General
The GUI allows users working on any machine to administer, operate or monitor servers and resources in any cluster as long as they have the required group memberships on the cluster machines. (For details, see Configuring GUI Users. The GUI Server and Client components…
LifeKeeper GUI Software Package
LifeKeeper for Linux Technical Documentation » LifeKeeper » User Guide » Using LifeKeeper for Linux » GUI » GUI Overview – General » LifeKeeper GUI Software Package
The LifeKeeper GUI is included in the steeleye-lkGUI software package which is bundled with the LifeKeeper Core Package Cluster. The steeleye-lkGUI package: Installs the LifeKeeper GUI Client in Java archive format. Installs the LifeKeeper GUI…
SAP HANA GUI States
Application Recovery Kits » SAP HANA Recovery Kit Administration Guide » SAP HANA Recovery Kit 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…
Viewing LifeKeeper GUI Server Processes
LifeKeeper for Linux Technical Documentation » LifeKeeper » User Guide » Using LifeKeeper for Linux » Common Tasks » Viewing LifeKeeper GUI Server Processes
To verify that the LifeKeeper GUI Server is running, type the following command: ps -ef | grep runGuiSer You should see output similar to the following: root 2805 1 0 08:24 ? 00:00:00 sh /opt/LifeKeeper/bin/runGuiServer To see a list of the other GUI Server daemon…
Preparing to Run the GUI
LifeKeeper for Linux Technical Documentation » LifeKeeper » User Guide » Using LifeKeeper for Linux » GUI » Preparing to Run the GUI
Overview Configuration Starting and Stopping the GUI Server Java Security Policy Running the GUI on a LifeKeeper Server
GUI – Known Issues / Restrictions
LifeKeeper for Linux Technical Documentation » LifeKeeper » Troubleshooting » Known Issues and Restrictions » GUI – Known Issues / Restrictions
Description Using source address routing with IP resources can impact the GUI Using source address routing with IP resources can impact the GUI’s ability to properly display the resource status when performing a switchover. The resource…
Recovery Kit for EC2™ Troubleshooting
Application Recovery Kits » Recovery Kit for 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…
Starting and Stopping the GUI Server
LifeKeeper for Linux Technical Documentation » LifeKeeper » User Guide » Using LifeKeeper for Linux » GUI » Preparing to Run the GUI » Starting and Stopping the GUI Server
To Start the LifeKeeper GUI Server If the LifeKeeper GUI Server is not running, type the following command as root: /opt/LifeKeeper/bin/lkGUIserver start This command starts all LifeKeeper GUI Server daemon processes on the server being administered if they are not…
AWS Direct Connect Known Issues and Troubleshooting
Quick Start Guides » Connection Between LifeKeeper Cluster and Clients Using AWS Transit Gateway Quick Start Guide » AWS Direct Connect Known Issues and Troubleshooting
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Troubleshooting Sybase ASE Error During Resource Creation
Application Recovery Kits » Sybase ASE Recovery Kit Administration Guide » Troubleshooting Sybase ASE Error During Resource Creation
Sybase 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…
Recovery Kit for Route 53™ Troubleshooting
Application Recovery Kits » Recovery Kit for 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…
Performing a Manual Switchover from the GUI
Application Recovery Kits » MySQL Recovery Kit Administration Guide » MySQL Administration » Performing a Manual Switchover from the GUI
You can test your MySQL resource hierarchy by initiating a manual switchover. This will simulate a failover of a resource instance from the primary server to the backup server. Performing a Manual Switchover from the GUI You can initiate a manual switchover from the…
Running the LifeKeeper GUI Through a Firewall
LifeKeeper for Linux Technical Documentation » LifeKeeper » User Guide » Using LifeKeeper for Linux » Maintenance Tasks » Running the LifeKeeper GUI Through a Firewall
In some situations, a LifeKeeper cluster is placed behind a corporate firewall and administrators wish to run the LifeKeeper GUI from a remote system outside the firewall. LifeKeeper uses Remote Method Invocation (RMI) to communicate between the GUI server and client.…
Running the GUI on a LifeKeeper Server
LifeKeeper for Linux Technical Documentation » LifeKeeper » User Guide » Using LifeKeeper for Linux » GUI » Preparing to Run the GUI » Running the GUI on a LifeKeeper Server
The simplest way to run the LifeKeeper GUI is as an application on a LifeKeeper server. By doing so you are, in effect, running the GUI client and server on the same system. After configuring the LifeKeeper server for GUI Administration, you can run the GUI as an…
Performing a Manual Switchover from the LifeKeeper GUI
Application Recovery Kits » PostgreSQL Recovery Kit Administration Guide » PostgreSQL Administration » Performing a Manual Switchover from the LifeKeeper GUI
You can initiate a manual switchover from the LifeKeeper GUI by selecting Edit, Resource, and In Service. For example, an in-service request executed on a backup server causes the PostgreSQL resource hierarchy to be placed in service on the backup server and taken…
LifeKeeper for Linux Installation Guide
LifeKeeper for Linux Installation Guide
The LifeKeeper for Linux Installation Guide contains information on how to plan and install your LifeKeeper environment. In addition to providing the necessary steps for setting up your server, storage device and network components, it includes details for configuring…
Documentation and Training
LifeKeeper Single Server Protection » LifeKeeper Single Server Protection for Linux Technical Documentation » Documentation and Training
A complete reference providing instructions for installing, configuring, administering and troubleshooting SIOS LifeKeeper Single Server Protection for Linux is available in the LifeKeeper Single Server Protection Documentation. The following sections cover every…
Oracle Recovery Kit Administration Guide
Application Recovery Kits » Oracle Recovery Kit Administration Guide
The LifeKeeper for Linux Oracle® Recovery Kit 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…
DB2 Recovery Kit Administration Guide
Application Recovery Kits » DB2 Recovery Kit Administration Guide
The LifeKeeper for Linux DB2 Recovery Kit 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…
VMDK Shared Storage Recovery Kit Administration Guide
Application Recovery Kits » VMDK Shared Storage Recovery Kit Administration Guide
VMDK Shared Storage Recovery Kit Technical Documentation LifeKeeper for Linux VMDK Shared Storage Recovery Kit (hereafter referred to as the VMDK Recovery Kit) provides a VMware virtual hard disk as shared storage. The VMDK Recovery Kit allows LifeKeeper users to…
Documentation and Training
LifeKeeper for Linux Technical Documentation » Documentation and Training
Documentation A complete reference providing instructions for installing, configuring, administering and troubleshooting LifeKeeper for Linux is available in the LifeKeeper for Linux Technical Documentation. The following sections cover every aspect of LifeKeeper for…
NAS Recovery Kit Administration Guide
Application Recovery Kits » NAS Recovery Kit Administration Guide
The LifeKeeper for Linux Network Attached Storage Recovery Kit (hereafter referred to as the NAS Recovery Kit) provides fault resilience for Network File System (NFS) software in a LifeKeeper environment. The NAS Recovery Kit affords LifeKeeper users the opportunity to…
SAP MaxDB Recovery Kit Administration Guide
Application Recovery Kits » SAP MaxDB Recovery Kit 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…
Postfix Recovery Kit Administration Guide
Application Recovery Kits » Postfix Recovery Kit Administration Guide
!IMPORTANT: End of Support for Designated SIOS Application Recovery Kits (ARKs) SIOS is ending support for the following Recovery Kits. They will be discontinued and no longer supported in the next Major Release of LifeKeeper for Linux. • NEC iStorage…
Configuring LifeKeeper Event Email Notification
LifeKeeper for Linux Technical Documentation » LifeKeeper » Installation and Configuration » LifeKeeper Event Email Notification » Configuring LifeKeeper Event Email Notification
Prerequisites The Event Email Notification feature is included as part of the LifeKeeper core functionality and does not require additional LifeKeeper packages to be installed. It does require that email software be installed and configured on each LifeKeeper node…
Known Issues
LifeKeeper for Linux Release Notes » Known Issues
See Known Issues and Restrictions in the Troubleshooting section of LifeKeeper for Linux Technical Documentation and the DataKeeper Troubleshooting section.
Samba Recovery Kit Administration Guide
Application Recovery Kits » Samba Recovery Kit Administration Guide
!IMPORTANT: End of Support for Designated SIOS Application Recovery Kits (ARKs) SIOS is ending support for the following Recovery Kits. They will be discontinued and no longer supported in the next Major Release of LifeKeeper for Linux. • NEC iStorage…
SAP HANA Recovery Kit Administration Guide
Application Recovery Kits » SAP HANA Recovery Kit Administration Guide
*Beginning in v9.5.0 SIOS has released the new SAP HANA Application Recovery Kit. 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…
Configuring LifeKeeper Event Forwarding
LifeKeeper for Linux Technical Documentation » LifeKeeper » Installation and Configuration » LifeKeeper Event Forwarding via SNMP » Configuring LifeKeeper Event Forwarding
Prerequisites The SNMP event forwarding feature is included as part of the LifeKeeper Core functionality and does not require additional LifeKeeper packages to be installed. Since LifeKeeper uses the snmptrap utility to generate the traps, the snmptrap command is…
LifeKeeper Event Email Notification
LifeKeeper for Linux Technical Documentation » LifeKeeper » Installation and Configuration » LifeKeeper Event Email Notification
Overview Configuration Troubleshooting
LifeKeeper Event Forwarding via SNMP
LifeKeeper for Linux Technical Documentation » LifeKeeper » Installation and Configuration » LifeKeeper Event Forwarding via SNMP
Overview Configuration Troubleshooting *See the following documentation for kit specific traps: DataKeeper Events Table EC2 Event Table
Force Mirror Online
LifeKeeper for Linux Technical Documentation » DataKeeper » Administering SIOS DataKeeper for Linux » GUI Mirror Administration » Force Mirror Online
Force Mirror Online should be used only in the event that both servers have become inoperable and the primary server cannot bring the resource in service after rebooting. Selecting Force Mirror Online removes the data_corrupt flag and brings the DataKeeper…
WebSphere MQ Recovery Kit Administration Guide
Application Recovery Kits » WebSphere MQ Recovery Kit Administration Guide
The LifeKeeper for Linux WebSphere MQ Recovery Kit provides fault resilient protection for WebSphere MQ queue managers and queue manager storage locations. This kit enables a failure on a primary WebSphere MQ server or queue manager to be recovered on the primary…
Apache Recovery Kit Administration Guide
Application Recovery Kits » Apache Recovery Kit Administration Guide
The LifeKeeper for Linux Apache Web Server Recovery Kit 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…
Creating a Samba Resource Hierarchy
Application Recovery Kits » Samba Recovery Kit Administration Guide » LifeKeeper Configuration Tasks for Samba » Creating a Samba Resource Hierarchy
After you have completed the necessary setup tasks, use the following steps to define the Samba resource hierarchy. From the LifeKeeper GUI menu, select Edit, then Server. From the menu, select Create Resource Hierarchy. The Create Resource Wizard dialog box will…
Logical Volume Manager Recovery Kit Administration Guide
Application Recovery Kits » Logical Volume Manager Recovery Kit Administration Guide
The LifeKeeper for Linux Logical Volume Manager Recovery Kit provides logical volume support for other LifeKeeper Recovery Kits. Thus, LifeKeeper-protected applications can take advantage of the benefits offered by the Logical Volume Manager, including simplified…
Verfying Network Configuration
LifeKeeper for Linux Installation Guide » Setting Up Your LifeKeeper Environment » Verfying Network Configuration
It is important to ensure that your network is configured and working properly before you install LifeKeeper. There are several tasks you should do at this point to verify your network operation: If your server installation has a firewall enabled, you will either…
Using LifeKeeper for Linux
LifeKeeper for Linux Technical Documentation » LifeKeeper » User Guide » Using LifeKeeper for Linux
The following topics provide detailed information on the LifeKeeper graphical user interface (GUI) as well as the many tasks that can be performed within the LifeKeeper…
Common Causes of a LifeKeeper Initiated Failover
LifeKeeper for Linux Technical Documentation » LifeKeeper » Troubleshooting » Common Causes of a LifeKeeper Initiated Failover
In the event of a failure, LifeKeeper has two methods of recovery: local recovery and inter-server recovery. If local recovery fails, a “failover” is implemented. A failover is defined as automatic switching to a backup server upon the failure or abnormal…
Administration
LifeKeeper Single Server Protection » LifeKeeper Single Server Protection for Linux Technical Documentation » 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…
Considerations for Settings and Operations in AWS Direct Connect
Quick Start Guides » AWS Direct Connect Quick Start Guide » Considerations for Settings and Operations in AWS Direct Connect
Considering the Use of LifeKeeper I-O Fencing Since the shared disk environment cannot be used in an AWS environment, you cannot use SCSI reservations to prevent a split-brain. IP resources may cause a split-brain as it uses the real IP resource with different IP…
Java Security Policy
LifeKeeper for Linux Technical Documentation » LifeKeeper » User Guide » Using LifeKeeper for Linux » GUI » Preparing to Run the GUI » Java Security Policy
The LifeKeeper GUI uses policy-based access control. When the GUI client is loaded, it is assigned permissions based on the security policy currently in effect. The policy, which specifies permissions that are available for code from various signers/locations, is…
LifeKeeper for Linux Getting Started Guide
LifeKeeper for Linux Getting Started Guide
This document will guide you through the installation of the LifeKeeper for Linux and assumes the user has basic knowledge of the Linux operating system. Please refer to the LifeKeeper for Linux product documentation for more information. Pre-Installation…
LifeKeeper Configuration Steps
LifeKeeper for Linux Technical Documentation » LifeKeeper » Installation and Configuration » LifeKeeper Configuration Steps
If you have installed your LifeKeeper environment as described in the LifeKeeper for Linux Installation Guide, you should be ready to start and configure the LifeKeeper for Linux software on each server in your cluster. Follow the steps below which contain links to…
Testing Your DataKeeper Resource Hierarchy
LifeKeeper for Linux Technical Documentation » DataKeeper » SIOS DataKeeper Installation and Configuration » Resource Configuration Tasks » Testing Your DataKeeper Resource Hierarchy
You can test your DataKeeper resource hierarchy by initiating a manual switchover. This will simulate a failover of the resource instance from the primary server to the backup server. Performing a Manual Switchover from the LifeKeeper GUI You can initiate a manual…
MySQL Administration
Application Recovery Kits » MySQL Recovery Kit Administration Guide » MySQL Administration
Testing Your Resource Hierarchy You can test your MySQL resource hierarchy by initiating a manual switchover. This will simulate a failover of a resource instance from the primary server to the backup server. Performing a Manual Switchover from the…
Toolbars
LifeKeeper for Linux Technical Documentation » LifeKeeper » User Guide » Using LifeKeeper for Linux » GUI » Toolbars
LifeKeeper for Linux Toolbars ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ GUI Toolbar Resource Context Toolbar Server Context Toolbar
Enable/Disable Listener Protection
Application Recovery Kits » WebSphere MQ Recovery Kit Administration Guide » LifeKeeper Configuration Tasks for MQ » Editing MQ Configuration Resource Properties » Enable/Disable Listener Protection
GUI First navigate to the WebSphere MQ Resource Properties Panel or the Resource Context Menu described above. The resource must be in service to modify the Listener Protection value. Then click on Listener Protection Configuration icon or menu item. The following…
Connecting to the First Node (node-a)
Evaluation Guides » LifeKeeper Evaluation Guide for Cloud Environments » Login and Basic Configuration Tasks » Connecting to the First Node (node-a)
Once logged in to the node with “X11 forwarding” enabled, type the following command to start the LifeKeeper for Linux GUI: In the login dialog pop-up, enter the root username and password to login: After successfully logging in, you should see node-a in…
SAP Test Preparation
Application Recovery Kits » SAP Recovery Kit Administration Guide » SAP Installation » SAP Test Preparation
Set up an SAP GUI on an SAP client to log in to SAP using the virtual SAP server name. Set up an SAP GUI on an SAP client to log in to the redundant AS. If desired, install additional AS’s on other servers in the cluster and set up a login group among all…
Disconnecting from a Cluster
LifeKeeper for Linux Technical Documentation » LifeKeeper » User Guide » Using LifeKeeper for Linux » Common Tasks » Disconnecting from a Cluster
This task disconnects your GUI client from all servers in the cluster, and it does so through the server you select. There are three possible ways to begin. • On the Global Toolbar, click the Disconnect button. • On the Edit Menu, select Server and…
Perform SAP Tests
Application Recovery Kits » SAP Recovery Kit Administration Guide » SAP Installation » Perform SAP Tests
Perform the following series of tests. The test steps are different for each configuration. Some steps call for verifying that SAP is running correctly but do not call out specific tests to perform. For a list of possible tests to perform to verify that SAP is…
Test Switchover and Failover
Evaluation Guides » LifeKeeper Evaluation Guide for Cloud Environments » Protecting Our Resources » How to Protect Other Resources (Databases or Applications) » Protecting SAP Resources » Test Switchover and Failover
In this section we will perform basic tests to verify the expected behavior of the SAP-SPS_ASCS10 and SAP-SPS_ERS20 resource hierarchies on switchover and failover. It is important to test that the enqueue server process in the ASCS10 instance is able to successfully…
Transferring Resource Hierarchies
LifeKeeper for Linux Technical Documentation » LifeKeeper » User Guide » Using LifeKeeper for Linux » Maintenance Tasks » Transferring Resource Hierarchies
When you need to perform routine maintenance or other tasks on a LifeKeeper Server, you can use the LifeKeeper GUI to move in-service resources to another server. To transfer in-service resource hierarchies from Server A to Server B, use the GUI to bring the…
Testing Your VMDK Resource Hierarchy
Application Recovery Kits » VMDK Shared Storage Recovery Kit Administration Guide » LifeKeeper VMDK Recovery Kit Configuration Tasks » Testing Your VMDK Resource Hierarchy
You can test your VMDK resource hierarchy by initiating a manual switchover that will simulate a failover of the resource instance from the primary server to the backup server. Performing a Manual Switchover from the LifeKeeper GUI You can initiate a manual…
Configure the Cluster – DK for Linux
Evaluation Guides » DataKeeper for Linux Evaluation Guide » Configure the Cluster – DK for Linux
Primary Server Complete the following steps on the primary server to configure the cluster: Create TCP Communication (Comm) Path(s) Verify the Communication (Comm) Path(s) Before you begin, SIOS recommends at least two TCP communications paths between each…
Testing Your NAS Resource Hierarchy
Application Recovery Kits » NAS Recovery Kit Administration Guide » LifeKeeper Configuration Tasks for NAS » Testing Your NAS Resource Hierarchy
You can test your NAS resource hierarchy by initiating a manual switchover that will simulate a fail over of the resource instance from the primary server to the backup server. Performing a Manual Switchover from the LifeKeeper GUI You can initiate a manual…
Starting LifeKeeper
LifeKeeper for Linux Technical Documentation » LifeKeeper » User Guide » Using LifeKeeper for Linux » Common Tasks » Starting LifeKeeper
All LifeKeeper software is installed in the directory /opt/LifeKeeper. When you have completed all of the verification tasks, you are ready to start LifeKeeper on both servers. This section provides information for starting the LifeKeeper server daemon processes. The…
Connecting Servers to a Cluster
LifeKeeper for Linux Technical Documentation » LifeKeeper » User Guide » Using LifeKeeper for Linux » Common Tasks » Connecting Servers to a Cluster
There are two possible ways to begin. • On the Global Toolbar, click the Connect button. • On the File Menu, click Connect. In the Server Name field of the Cluster Connect dialog, enter the name of a server within the cluster to which you want to…
LifeKeeper Administration Overview
LifeKeeper for Linux Technical Documentation » LifeKeeper » LifeKeeper Administration Overview
LifeKeeper does not require administration during operation. LifeKeeper works automatically to monitor protected resources and to perform the specified recovery actions if a fault should occur. You use the LifeKeeper GUI in these cases: Resource and hierarchy…
Maintaining a Resource Hierarchy
LifeKeeper for Linux Technical Documentation » LifeKeeper » User Guide » Using LifeKeeper for Linux » Maintenance Tasks » Maintaining a Resource Hierarchy
You can perform maintenance on a resource hierarchy while maintaining LifeKeeper protection of all other hierarchies on the system. This involves taking the hierarchy in need of maintenance out of service and then bringing it back in-service after you complete the…
Login and Basic Configuration Tasks
Evaluation Guides » LifeKeeper Evaluation Guide for Cloud Environments » Login and Basic Configuration Tasks
By now you should have 3 nodes, each with LifeKeeper for Linux installed and ready for use. Connecting to Linux Node with the GUI LifeKeeper has a GUI application to configure the cluster. Please refer to Connecting to a Linux Node with x11 Forwarding for more…
Output Panel
LifeKeeper for Linux Technical Documentation » LifeKeeper » User Guide » Using LifeKeeper for Linux » Output Panel
The output panel collects output from commands issued by the LifeKeeper GUI client. When a command begins to run, a time stamped label is added to the output panel, and all of the output from that command is added under this label. If you are running multiple commands…
SAP MaxDB Recovery Kit Error Messages
Application Recovery Kits » SAP MaxDB Recovery Kit Administration Guide » SAP MaxDB Troubleshooting » SAP MaxDB Recovery Kit Error Messages
Error Number Message 111000 Usage: %s independent_program_path 111001 Usage: %s %s %s 111002 No value specified to script %s for input argument %s. 111003 User %s with User_Key %s cannot…
PostgreSQL Administration
Application Recovery Kits » PostgreSQL Recovery Kit Administration Guide » PostgreSQL Administration
Updating Database Administrator User The Update User option allows the LifeKeeper administrator to change the current PostgreSQL Database Administrator User for the LifeKeeper PostgreSQL resource instance. Testing Your PostgreSQL Resource Hierarchy You can test your…
Deleting a Communication Path
LifeKeeper for Linux Technical Documentation » LifeKeeper » LifeKeeper Administration Overview » Administrator Tasks » Deleting a Communication Path
There are four ways to begin. • Right-click on a server icon, then click Delete Comm Path when the server context menu appears. • On the global toolbar, click the Delete Comm Path button. • On the server context toolbar, if displayed, click…
Test Your DK for Linux Environment
Evaluation Guides » DataKeeper for Linux Evaluation Guide » Test Your DK for Linux Environment
The following test scenarios have been included to guide you as you get started evaluating LifeKeeper for Linux. Before beginning these tests, make sure the data replication resources are in the mirroring state. *Note: For these test examples, the Primary Server is…
Test Your Environment – Apache
Quick Start Guides » Apache/MySQL Cluster Using Both Shared and Replicated Storage » Test Your Environment – Apache
The following test scenarios have been included to guide you as you get started evaluating LifeKeeper for Linux. Before beginning these tests, make sure the data replication resources are in the mirroring state. *Note: For these test examples, the Primary Server is…
Setting Up Your LifeKeeper Environment
LifeKeeper for Linux Installation Guide » Setting Up Your LifeKeeper Environment
Now that the requirements have been determined and LifeKeeper configuration has been mapped, components of this LifeKeeper environment can be set up. *Although it is possible to perform some setup tasks in a different sequence, this list is provided in the recommended…