Planning the Sun Cluster HA for Sun ONE Message Queue Installation and Configuration

This section contains the information that you need to plan your Sun Cluster HA for Sun ONE Message Queue installation and configuration.

Standard Data Service Configurations

Use the standard configurations in this section to plan the installation and configuration of the Sun Cluster HA for Sun ONE Message Queue. The Sun Cluster HA for Sun ONE Message Queue might support additional configurations. However, you must contact your Enterprise Services representative for information on additional configurations.

The following figure illustrates a standard failover configuration for the Sun ONE Message Queue.

Figure 1–1 Two-Node Cluster with Failover Data Service Configuration

Configuration Considerations

If you choose to use your message service with another highly available application, resource dependencies might exist. See “Standard Properties” in Sun Cluster 3.1 Data Service Planning and Administration Guide for a description of the Resource_dependencies property.

Configuration Planning Questions

Use the questions in this section to plan the installation and configuration of the Sun Cluster HA for Sun ONE Message Queue. Insert the answers to these questions into the data service worksheets in the “Data Service Configuration Worksheets and Examples” in Sun Cluster 3.1 Release Notes. See “Considerations” in Sun Cluster 3.1 Data Service Planning and Administration Guide for information that might apply to these questions.

• What resource groups will you use for network addresses and application resources and the dependencies between them?

• What is the logical hostname (for failover services) for clients that will access the data service?

• Where will the system configuration files reside?