Starting the Application

This method uses the process manager facility (pmfadm) to start the application. The pmfadm command enables you to set the number of times to try to restart the application during a specified time frame. The RTR file contains two properties: Retry_count specifies the number of times to attempt restarting an application, and Retry_interval specifies the time period over which to do so.

The Start method retrieves the values of Retry_count and Retry_interval by using the scha_resource_get() function and stores their values in shell variables. The Start method passes these values to pmfadm by using the -n and -t options.

# Get the value for retry count from the RTR file.
RETRY_CNT=`scha_resource_get -O Retry_count -R $RESOURCE_NAME \
-G $RESOURCEGROUP_NAME`
# Get the value for retry interval from the RTR file. This value is in seconds
# and must be converted to minutes for passing to pmfadm. Note that the 
# conversion rounds up; for example, 50 seconds rounds up to 1 minute.
((RETRY_INTRVAL=`scha_resource_get -O Retry_interval -R $RESOURCE_NAME \
-G $RESOURCEGROUP_NAME` / 60))

# Start the in.named daemon under the control of PMF. Let it crash and restart
# up to $RETRY_COUNT times in a period of $RETRY_INTERVAL; if it crashes
# more often than that, PMF will cease trying to restart it.
# If there is a process already registered under the tag
# <$PMF_TAG>, then PMF sends out an alert message that the
# process is already running.
pmfadm -c $PMF_TAAG -n $RETRY_CNT -t $RETRY_INTRVAL \
    /usr/sbin/in.named -c named.conf

# Log a message indicating that HA-DNS has been started.
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
   logger -p ${SYSLOG_FACILITY}.err \
         -t [$SYSLOG_TAG] \
         "${ARGV0} HA-DNS successfully started"
fi
exit 0