The functions in this section provide a broad range of functionality. These functions enable you to
Initialize the DSDL environment
Retrieve resource, resource type, and resource group names, and extension property values
Failover and restart a resource group and restart a resource
Convert error strings to error messages
Execute a command under a timeout
The following functions initialize the calling method.
scds_initialize – allocate resources and initialize the DSDL environment.
scds_close – free resources allocated by scds_initialize.
The following functions retrieve information about resources, resource types, resource groups, and extension properties.
scds_get_resource_name – retrieve the name of the resource for the calling program.
scds_get_resource_type_name – retrieve the name of the resource type for the calling program.
scds_get_resource_group_name – retrieve the name of the resource group for the calling program.
scds_get_ext_property – retrieve the value of the specified extension property.
scds_free_ext_property – free the memory allocated by scds_get_ext_property.
The following function retrieves status information about the SUNW.HAStoragePlus resources used by a resource.
scds_hasp_check – retrieves status information about SUNW.HAStoragePlus resources used by a resource. This information is obtained from the state (online or otherwise) of all SUNW.HAStoragePlus resources that the resource depends upon using the Resource_dependencies or Resource_dependencies_weak system properties defined for the resource.
See SUNW.HAStoragePlus(5) for more information about SUNW.HAStoragePlus.
The following functions fail over or restart a resource or resource group.
scds_failover_rg – fail over a resource group.
scds_restart_rg – restart a resource group.
scds_restart_resource – restart a resource.
The following two functions execute a command under a timeout and convert an error code to an error message.
scds_timerun – execute a command under a timeout value.
scds_error_string – translate an error code to an error string.