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This area contains, among other information, "Voodoo" Sun Cluster documentation, also known as cheat sheets (that stuff you've handwritten on Post-it® Notes stuck to your console's monitor and stuff not in the manuals). This page covers the following topics.

Voodoo What It Says     Who's Saying It    
Plugin script check_scstat.pl Kaunt describes and provides a plugin script that checks the status of Sun Cluster nodes, paths, quorums, resources, resource groups, and IPMP paths, all in a single run.
Usage: ./check_scstat.pl -w {w1,w2,w3} -c {c1,c2,c3}
Options: -w {w1,w2,w3} Warning if number of "Hosts,Paths,IPMP-Paths" fails
-c {c1,c2,c3} Critical if number of "Hosts,Paths,IPMP-Paths" fails
-h print this help
Example: ./check_scstat.pl -w 1,1,1 -c 1,2,2
kaunt
Sun Cluster 3.1 cheat sheet H.N. describes Sun Cluster 3.1 daemons, file locations, SCSI reservations, command line interface (CLI) commands for obtaining cluster information and cluster configuration, administering quorum devices, configuring and getting configuration information about devices, using and getting information about disk groups, transport cables, resource groups, resources, and resource types. bbrk364
Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) and Sun Cluster, or How to Create a Resource That Is a Script in Sun Cluster Markus, with help from Martin, present you with, and show you how to get a Korn shell script into the Sun Cluster framework. This script starts and stops an IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Distributed Service Manager (DSM) scheduler. In other words, they provide a very useful case study that illustrates how to create a resource in Sun Cluster. Markus Mayer with help from Martin Preßlaber
How to Create a Zone Cluster? Madhan tells you how to create and configure one of those new-fangled zone clusters, a new feature that was just added to Sun Cluster Express. Madhan Kumar Balasubramanian
Building a Solaris Cluster Express Cluster in a VirtualBox on OpenSolaris Gordon describes how to set up a VirtualBox Solaris Express cluster. Gordon shows how he set up a clustered MySQL server in a zone, a clustered Apache zone providing a phpmyadmin front end for MySQL, all on a two node Solaris Express cluster with nodes running in VirtualBox virtual machines on a single physical machine. And he shows how he provided shared storage over iSCSI from the host machine. Gordon Johnston
Solaris Cluster on a laptop using VirtualBox, iSCSI and a quorum server Mike Ramchand's take on Gordon Johnston's voyage into building a solaris Cluster Express Cluster in a VirtualBox on Solaris. Mike Ramchand
Installing HA Containers With ZFS Using the Solaris 10 5/08 OS and Solaris Cluster 3.2 Software As Luke says, installing high availability (HA) Containers on ZFS is pretty tricky. The documentation from Sun seems a little incomplete when going over this subject, but for the most part, it points you in the right direction. Luke's version fills in all of the blanks and lays it out thoroughly, clearly, and succinctly. Lucas Williams
Dante's Inferno: Using LiveUpgrade from Solaris 9u5/SC31u3 to S10u4/SC32u1 Talks about the trials and tribulations of his trying to use Solaris™ Live Upgrade to upgrade Sun Cluster 3.1 Update 3 (9/04) running on Solaris 9 Update 5 (12/03) to Sun Cluster 3.2 Update 1 (2/08) running on Solaris 10 Update 4 (8/07). Dante
Some Dude's Notes Lists commands for managing resources, resource groups, managing fault monitors, listing device identifiers (DIDs), listing status of the cluster, resources, resource groups. some dude
Setting Up crlogin to Work through Secure Shell (SSH) Using Sun Cluster 3.0 or 3.1 Software Presents five steps that tell you how to use SSH with crlogin, which enables you to administer multiple servers or clusters more easily. These steps describe how to set up crlogin for use with Sun Cluster 3.0 and 3.1 software on the Solaris 9 and Solaris 10 operating systems for the SPARC platform. Alec Effrat
Using ssh to Access Logical Nodes in a Sun Cluster Environment Provides an example of how to avoid problems when using ssh on a logical node, as well as when using automatic authentication. This example presumably works on any flavor of UNIX with any kind of failover, but it's known to work on the Solaris 8, Solaris 9, and Solrais 10 operating systems. This example works in the Sun Cluster 3.0 and Sun Cluster 3.1 environments. It may or may not work in a Sun Cluster 3.2 environment. Alec Effrat
Restoring disappearing metasets After issuing the netservices limited command, all metasets disappear. To restore the missing metasets, as superuser, issue the following command:

svcadm enable network/rpc/meta

Sebastian Benner
Dwai Lahiri's Sun Cluster Cheat Sheet - 1 CCR, global services, DID devices, global naming, devices, and file systems, as well as console software and cluster control panel (CCP) Dwaipayan Lahiri at http://www.realsysadmin.com
Dwai Lahiri's Sun Cluster Cheat Sheet - 2 Setting up Sun Cluster, quorum device rules, quorum math and consequences, cluster status, cluster daemons, VxVM rootdg requirements Dwaipayan Lahiri at http://www.realsysadmin.com
Dwai Lahiri's Sun Cluster Cheat Sheet - 3 Device groups, disk sets, and IPMP Dwaipayan Lahiri at http://www.realsysadmin.com
Dwai Lahiri's Sun Cluster Cheat Sheet - 4 Data services in clusters, fault monitor operations, and Sun Terminal Concentrator (Annex NTS) Dwaipayan Lahiri at http://www.realsysadmin.com
Geoff Ongley's “Building a minimal Solaris jumpstart profile” Shows you how to build a jumpstart environment to deploy a stack of hosts into VMWare®, so you can build various kinds of Solaris hosts, including LDAP replicas, mail stores and gateways using Sun Cluster and Messaging Server 6.3, and Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) on Sun Cluster. Geoff also makes available some code he's written that you can use to build a minimal Solaris profile. Geoff Ongley
Geoff Ongley's “Building a Sun Cluster using Solaris 10, on VMware Server” Describes in detail how to get Sun Cluster 3.1 8/05 working on a VMware® server Geoff Ongley
Ricky Zhu's Sun Cluster FAQ How to access the scsetup utility, how to display release and version information about Sun Cluster, how to display configured resource types, resource groups, and resources, how to check the status of cluster components, how to check the status of the public network, how to view the cluster configuration Ricky Zhu
Simple Sun Cluster Monitoring Script Shows a script that monitors a small Sun Cluster 3.1 environment that includes Oracle Parallel Server. This script runs through the output of various scstat command variations and reports on all combinations of errors it encounters. The script returns the message All Clear once an error condition no longer exists. Mike Golvach
How to Stop Monitoring a Heavily Used Resource in a Sun Cluster 3.x Environment Describes how to stop monitoring a resource in a Sun Cluster 3.0 or 3.1 environment when you see a high load on that particular resource. Karan Grover
Running Oracle RAC inside Solaris zones, deploying highly available Oracle databases with Sun Cluster 3.2, running processes in fixed time intervals, and first thoughts of Sun Cluster 3.2 The good, the bad, and the ugly about Sun Cluster 3.2, using Sun Cluster 3.2 with Oracle, and running processes in fixed time intervals with hatimerun. Matty
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Voodoo What It Says Who's Saying It
Sun Cluster 3.1 Command Line Cheat Sheet Richard provides some handy shorthand notes for all you people who are still using Sun Cluster 3.1. Richard Ostberg
Creating VLANs and the private interconnect Always create a separate VLAN for each cluster, even if clusters share the same switch.

By default, Sun Cluster uses the same set of IP addresses on the private interconnect. Creating a separate VLAN for each cluster ensures that IP traffic from one cluster does not interfere with IP traffic from another cluster. Unless you have customized the default IP address for the private interconnect (available in Sun Cluster 3.2 only), as described in How to Change the Private Network Address or Address Range of an Existing Cluster, always create a separate VLAN for each cluster.
Brian C. Keith
How to Install and Configure a Two-Node Cluster Get the details about how to use the Java™ Enterprise System (JES) installer and the scinistall command to install and set up a two-node cluster with Sun Cluster 3.1. This example includes how to configure a quorum device. This example does not describe how to configure a highly available service, which is covered in a separate guide. Rita McKissick and Lisa Shepherd
A New Command Set for Solaris Cluster 3.2 Be the first in your neighborhood to start using the new Sun Cluster 3.2 command line interface. John Cummings
Using Solaris and Solaris Cluster on Hewlett-Packard ProLiant Servers We share some of what we learned during the initial implementation of the Sun Cluster Open Hardware Program on Hewlett-Packard ProLiant™ servers. Vishwanth Mantha and Matt Ostberg
Quorum Device - Why Configure One? Learn how a quorum device can guarantee that a cluster doesn't suffer from partitions, namely split brain and amnesia. Ira Pramanick and Richard Elling
Announcing Solaris Cluster Support in LDoms I/O Domains We talk about this new Logical Domains (LDoms) support from a technical point of view. Ashutosh Tripathi and Alexandre Chartre
Migrating From Veritas Cluster Server to Solaris Cluster

Strategy for Data Migration From Veritas Cluster to Solaris Cluster

Case Studies That Describe How to Migrate From Veritas Cluster Server to Solaris Cluster
Discover how to migrate from Veritas® Cluster Server™ to Sun Cluster. Detlef Ulherr
Why SUNW.nfs Is Required to Configure HA-NFS Over ZFS in Solaris Cluster? Configure a Highly Available NFS file system in a Sun Cluster environment by using the HA-NFS agent (SUNW.nfs). Venkateswarlu "Venku" Tella
Disabling a Depended-On Resource in Sun Cluster 3.2 In previous versions of Sun Cluster, you weren't allowed to disable the Logical Hostname without first disabling the application resource. In Sun Cluster 3.2, however, this restriction was relaxed. Marty's (The Man Behind Sun Cluster) blog tells you how to do it in Sun Cluster 3.2. Marty Rattner
Clustering Solaris Guests That Run on VMware with Sun Cluster 3.2 Software Learn how to run Sun Cluster 3.2 software on top of Solaris 10 guest operating systems, and thereby cluster VMware® Virtual Machines running the Solaris OS. Subhadeep Sinha
Customizing the Private IP Address Range With the Flexible IP Addressing Scheme Read how to use the Flexible IP Addressing Scheme, a new feature that is available in Sun Cluster 3.2. This new feature eliminates the 16-bit address requirement for the cluster interconnect and makes the IP address range smaller and more flexible. Prasanna Kunisetty
Configuring IP Filter Support for Failover Services With Solaris Cluster 3.2 Read how to configure IP filtering for failover services. John Blair
SSH Support for Cluster Console Panel We describe the recently added support for Secure Shell (SSH) in the cconsole utility and the new cssh command. Subhadeep Sinha
Evacuating Resource Groups From Nodes Get the scoop about evacuating resource groups from nodes with the new clresourcegroup evacuate command that is available in Sun Cluster 3.2. Marty Rattner
Sun Cluster 3.2 SNMP Interface We describe the cluster event SNMP interface that has been added to Sun Cluster 3.2. Leland Chen
DataService Configuration Wizards We describe the new Data Services Configuration Wizards, which have been added to Sun Cluster 3.2. Madhur Bansal
How to Use the Load Balancing Feature in Sun Cluster Learn how to use load balancing by example. Apache is used to demonstrate how easily you can enable the load balancing feature in Sun Cluster. Prasanna Kunisetty
Resource Dependencies Become King of resource dependencies. Read Marty's blog and rule! Marty Rattner
Making SMF Services Highly Available With Sun Cluster Learn how to make your SMF service for an application highly available with Sun Cluster. Harish Mallya
What Is Flash Archive Installation? Tells you what flash archive installation is and how to use it to install multiple clusters with a standard configuration (version, applications, and patches). Very handy. Madhan Kumar Balasubramanian
How Does Sun Cluster Decide on Which Node a Service Runs? Answers the burning question discerning users want to know: “how does Sun Cluster decide where to bring a resource group online?” Marty Rattner
Sun Cluster HA Sun Java System Application Server - Configuration Made Easy Learn the key components of the application server and procure the source for a tool that's designed to simplify the configuration of the application server. Swathi Devulapalli
ScalDeviceGroup and ScalMountPoint Resource Types Learn more about how to use the ScalDeviceGroup and ScalMountPoint resource types. Krishnendu Sadhukhan
New Solaris 10 Experience Discover how to use Solaris Containers, a.k.a. zones, with Sun Cluster 3.2 and Samba. Neil Garthwaite
Sun Cluster Data Services Learn all about it! Get the scoop on which Sun Cluster data services, agents, or whatever you want to call them are available in Sun Cluster 3.1 and Sun Cluster 3.2. Prasad Dharmavaram
Taming a Runaway Resource Group Marty describes how to whip a runaway resource group into submission with the clresourcegroup quiesce or scswitch -Q command. Marty Rattner
Getting the Resource Group Manager (RGM) to Step Aside Marty tells it like it is---how to suspend and resume automatic recovery actions on a resource group, that is. Marty Rattner
Sun Cluster and Solaris Zones Nick Solter, the Other Man Behind Sun Cluster, tells you how to use Sun Cluster with Solaris Containers, a.k.a. zones. Nick Solter
Configuring HA Kerberos in Sun Cluster 3.2 Tells you all about setting up and configuring the Kerberos Agent, which supports the highly available Zettabyte File System (ZFS) and application support in non-global zones features in Sun Cluster 3.2. Madhan Kumar Balasubramanian
Sun Cluster Service Level Management Describes how to use this Sun Cluster 3.2 feature to view CPU, memory, swap, and network use of the cluster node, resource groups, and individual system components like disk, adapters, and the like. Atul Vidwansa
Creating Sun Cluster Agents for Simple Tasks Answers these burning questions of the day:
* How do I send an e-mail whenever a resource group fails over, or
* How do I automate tweaking of this configuration file just before my application is started by Sun Cluster, or
* How do I run my own custom script to do this custom task just before or after a given resource or group starts?
Ashutosh Tripathi

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