Sun Cluster Geographic Edition Administration Tools

You can perform administrative tasks on a cluster that is running Sun Cluster Geographic Edition software by using a graphical user interface (GUI) or the command-line interface (CLI).

The procedures in this guide describe how to perform administrative tasks using the CLI.

Graphical User Interface

Sun Cluster software supports the SunPlex^TM Manager, a GUI tool that you can use to perform various administrative tasks on your cluster. For specific information about how to use SunPlex Manager, see the Sun Cluster online help.

To administer Sun Cluster Geographic Edition software using the GUI, the root passwords must be the same on all nodes of both clusters in the partnership.

You can only use the GUI to administer Sun Cluster Geographic Edition software after the software infrastructure has been enabled using the geoadm start command. Use the CLI to issue the geoadm start and geoadm stop commands. For information on enabling and disabling the Sun Cluster Geographic Edition infrastructure, see Chapter 3, Administering the Sun Cluster Geographic Edition Infrastructure.

The GUI does not support creating custom heartbeats outside of a partnership. If you want to specify a custom heartbeat in a partnership join operation, use the CLI to execute the geops join-partnership command.

Command-Line Interface

Table 1–1 lists the commands that you can use to administer the Sun Cluster Geographic Edition software. For more information about each command, refer to the Sun Cluster Geographic Edition Reference Manual.