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Sun Cluster 3.1 10/03 Data Services Developer's Guide

Probe Program

The dns_probe program implements a continuously running process that verifies the DNS resource controlled by the sample data service is running. The dns_probe is launched by the dns_monitor_start method, which is automatically invoked by the RGM after the sample data service is brought online. The data service is stopped by the dns_monitor_stop method, which then RGM invokes before bringing the sample data service offline.

This section describes the major pieces of the PROBE method for the sample application. It does not describe functionality common to all callback methods, such as the parse_args() function and obtaining the syslog facility, which are described in Providing Common Functionality to All Methods.

For the complete listing of the PROBE method, see PROBE Program.

Probe Overview

The probe runs in an infinite loop. It uses nslookup to verify that the proper DNS resource is running. If DNS is running, the probe sleeps for a prescribed interval (set by the Thorough_probe_interval system-defined property) and then checks again. If DNS is not running, this program attempts to restart it locally, or depending on the number of restart attempts, requests that the RGM relocate the data service to a different node.

Obtaining Property Values

This program needs the values of the following properties:

The scha_resource_get() function obtains the values of these properties and stores them in shell variables, as follows. 

PROBE_INTERVAL=`scha_resource_get -O THOROUGH_PROBE_INTERVAL \
-R $RESOURCE_NAME -G $RESOURCEGROUP_NAME`

probe_timeout_info=`scha_resource_get -O Extension -R $RESOURCE_NAME
\
-G $RESOURCEGROUP_NAME Probe_timeout` 
PROBE_TIMEOUT=`echo $probe_timeout_info | awk '{print $2}'`

DNS_HOST=`scha_resource_get -O NETWORK_RESOURCES_USED -R $RESOURCE_NAME
\
-G $RESOURCEGROUP_NAME`

RETRY_COUNT=`scha_resource_get -O RETRY_COUNT -R $RESOURCE_NAME
-G\
 $RESOURCEGROUP_NAME`

RETRY_INTERVAL=`scha_resource_get -O RETRY_INTERVAL -R $RESOURCE_NAME
-G\
 $RESOURCEGROUP_NAME`

RT_BASEDIR=`scha_resource_get -O RT_BASEDIR -R $RESOURCE_NAME -G\
 $RESOURCEGROUP_NAME`

Note –

For system-defined properties, such as Thorough_probe_interval, scha_resource_get() returns the value only. For extension properties, such as Probe_timeout, scha_resource_get() returns the type and value. Use the awk command to obtain the value only.

Checking the Reliability of the Service

The probe itself is an infinite while loop of nslookup commands. Before the while loop, a temporary file is set up to hold the nslookup replies. The probefail and retries variables are initialized to 0. 


# Set up a temporary file for the nslookup replies.
DNSPROBEFILE=/tmp/.$RESOURCE_NAME.probe
probefail=0
retries=0

The while loop itself:

Here is the while loop code.


while :
do
   # The interval at which the probe needs to run is specified in the
   # property THOROUGH_PROBE_INTERVAL. Therefore, set the probe to sleep
   # for a duration of THOROUGH_PROBE_INTERVAL.
   sleep $PROBE_INTERVAL

   # Run an nslookup command of the IP address on which DNS is serving.
   hatimerun -t $PROBE_TIMEOUT /usr/sbin/nslookup $DNS_HOST $DNS_HOST \
          > $DNSPROBEFILE 2>&1

      retcode=$?
      if [ $retcode -ne 0 ]; then
            probefail=1
      fi

   # Make sure that the reply to nslookup comes from the HA-DNS
   # server and not from another nameserver mentioned in the 
   # /etc/resolv.conf file.
   if [ $probefail -eq 0 ]; then
# Get the name of the server that replied to the nslookup query.
   SERVER=` awk ' $1=="Server:" { print $2 }' \
   $DNSPROBEFILE | awk -F. ' { print $1 } ' `
   if [ -z "$SERVER" ]; then
      probefail=1
      else
         if [ $SERVER != $DNS_HOST ]; then
            probefail=1
         fi
   fi
fi

Evaluating Restart Versus Failover

If the probefail variable is something other than 0 (success), it means the nslookup command timed out or that the reply came from a server other than the sample service's DNS. In either case, the DNS server is not functioning as expected and the fault monitor calls the decide_restart_or_failover() function to determine whether to restart the data service locally or request that the RGM relocate the data service to a different node. If the probefail variable is 0, then a message is generated that the probe was successful. 


   if [ $probefail -ne 0 ]; then
         decide_restart_or_failover
   else
         logger -p ${SYSLOG_FACILITY}.err\
         -t [$SYSLOG_TAG]\
         "${ARGV0} Probe for resource HA-DNS successful"
   fi

The decide_restart_or_failover() function uses a time window (Retry_interval) and a failure count (Retry_count) to determine whether to restart DNS locally or request that the RGM relocate the data service to a different node. It implements the following conditional code (see the code listing for decide_restart_or_failover() in PROBE Program).

If the number of restarts reaches the limit during the time interval, the function requests that the RGM relocate the data service to a different node. If the number of restarts is under the limit, or the interval has been exceeded so the count begins again, the function attempts to restart DNS on the same node. Note the following about this function:

Restarting the Data Service

The restart_service() function is called by decide_restart_or_failover() to attempt to restart the data service on the same node. This function does the following. 


function restart_service
{

        # To restart the data service, first verify that the 
        # data service itself is still registered under PMF.
        pmfadm -q $PMF_TAG
        if [[ $? -eq 0 ]]; then
                # Since the TAG for the data service is still registered under
                # PMF, first stop the data service and start it back up again.

                # Obtain the Stop method name and the STOP_TIMEOUT value for
                # this resource.
                STOP_TIMEOUT=`scha_resource_get -O STOP_TIMEOUT \
                        -R $RESOURCE_NAME -G $RESOURCEGROUP_NAMÈ
                STOP_METHOD=`scha_resource_get -O STOP \
                        -R $RESOURCE_NAME -G $RESOURCEGROUP_NAMÈ
                hatimerun -t $STOP_TIMEOUT $RT_BASEDIR/$STOP_METHOD \
                        -R $RESOURCE_NAME -G $RESOURCEGROUP_NAME \
                        -T $RESOURCETYPE_NAME

                if [[ $? -ne 0 ]]; then
                        logger-p ${SYSLOG_FACILITY}.err -t [$SYSLOG_TAG] \
                                “${ARGV0} Stop method failed.”
                        return 1
                fi

                # Obtain the START method name and the START_TIMEOUT value for
                # this resource.
                START_TIMEOUT=`scha_resource_get -O START_TIMEOUT \
                        -R $RESOURCE_NAME -G $RESOURCEGROUP_NAMÈ
                START_METHOD=`scha_resource_get -O START \
                        -R $RESOURCE_NAME -G $RESOURCEGROUP_NAMÈ
                hatimerun -t $START_TIMEOUT $RT_BASEDIR/$START_METHOD \
                        -R $RESOURCE_NAME -G $RESOURCEGROUP_NAME \
                        -T $RESOURCETYPE_NAME

                if [[ $? -ne 0 ]]; then
                        logger-p ${SYSLOG_FACILITY}.err -t [$SYSLOG_TAG] \
                                “${ARGV0} Start method failed.”
                        return 1
                fi


        else
                # The absence of the TAG for the dataservice 
                # implies that the data service has already
                # exceeded the maximum retries allowed under PMF. 
                # Therefore, do not attempt to restart the
                # data service again, but try to failover
                # to another node in the cluster.
                scha_control -O GIVEOVER -G $RESOURCEGROUP_NAME \
                        -R $RESOURCE_NAME
        fi

        return 0
}

Probe Exit Status

The sample data service's PROBE program exits with failure if attempts to restart locally have failed and the attempt to fail over to a different node has failed as well. It logs the message, “Failover attempt failed”.