Validating an EMC Symmetrix Remote Data Facility Protection Group

During protection group validation, the EMC Symmetrix Remote Data Facility data replication layer of the Sun Cluster Geographic Edition software validates the following:

• The SYMCLI is installed on at least one of the nodes in the Nodelist property.

• The specified device group is a valid Sun Cluster device group. The data replication layer uses the scstat -D command if the Cluster_dgs property is specified. The data replication layer also verifies that the device group is of a valid type.

• The properties are valid for each EMC Symmetrix Remote Data Facility device group that has been added to the protection group.

When the geoadm status output displays that the Configuration status of a protection group is Error, you can validate the configuration by using the geopg validate command. This command checks the current state of the protection group and its entities.

If the protection group and its entities are valid, then the Configuration status of the protection groups is set to OK. If the geopg validate command finds an error in the configuration files, then the command displays a message about the error and the configuration remains in the error state. In such a case, you can fix the error in the configuration, and run the geopg validate command again.

How to Validate an EMC Symmetrix Remote Data Facility Protection Group

Before You Begin

Ensure that the protection group you want to validate exists locally and that the common agent container is online on all nodes of both clusters in the partnership.

1. Log in to one of the cluster nodes.

   You must be assigned the Geo Management RBAC rights profile to complete this procedure. For more information about RBAC, see Sun Cluster Geographic Edition Software and RBAC in Sun Cluster Geographic Edition System Administration Guide.

2. Validate the configuration of the protection group.

   This command validates the configuration of the protection group on the local cluster only. To validate the protection group configuration on the partner cluster, run the command again on the partner cluster.

   # geopg validate protectiongroupname

   protectiongroupname

   Specifies a unique name that identifies a single protection group

Example 2–5 Validating the Configuration of a Protection Group

This ex

ample validates a protection group.

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