Tools for Data Service Resource Administration

This section describes the tools that you can use to perform installation and configuration tasks.

Sun Cluster Manager Graphical User Interface (GUI)

Sun Cluster Manager is a web-based tool that enables you to perform the following tasks.

• Installing a cluster

• Administering a cluster

• Creating and configuring resources and resource groups

• Configuring data services with the Sun Cluster software

Sun Cluster Manager provides wizards to automate the configuration of Sun Cluster data services for the following applications.

• Apache Web Server

• NFS

• Oracle

• Oracle Real Application Clusters

• SAP Web Application Server

Each wizard enables you to configure Sun Cluster resources that the data service requires. The wizard does not automate the installation and configuration of the application software to run in a Sun Cluster configuration. To install and configure application software to run in a Sun Cluster configuration, use utilities of the application and Sun Cluster maintenance commands. For more information, see your application documentation and the Sun Cluster documentation set. Each wizard supports only a limited subset of configuration options for a data service. To configure options that a wizard does not support, use Sun Cluster Manager or Sun Cluster maintenance commands to configure the data service manually. For more information, see the Sun Cluster documentation.

Sun Cluster Manager provides wizards to automate the configuration of the following Sun Cluster resources.

• Logical hostname resource

• Shared address resource

• Highly available storage resource

You can use a resource that you create by using a wizard with any data service regardless of how you configure the data service.

For instructions for using use Sun Cluster Manager to install cluster software, see Sun Cluster Software Installation Guide for Solaris OS. Sun Cluster Manager provides online help for most administrative tasks.

SPARC: The Sun Cluster Module for the Sun Management Center GUI

The Sun Cluster module enables you to monitor clusters and to perform some operations on resources and resource groups from the Sun Management Center GUI. See the Sun Cluster Software Installation Guide for Solaris OS for information about installation requirements and procedures for the Sun Cluster module. Go to http://docs.sun.com to access the Sun Management Center software documentation set, which provides additional information about Sun Management Center.

clsetup Utility

The clsetup(1CL) utility is a menu-driven interface that you can use for general Sun Cluster administration. You can also use this utility to configure data service resources and resource groups. Select option 2 from the clsetup main menu to launch the Resource Group Manager submenu.

Sun Cluster Maintenance Commands

You can use the Sun Cluster maintenance commands to register and configure data service resources. See the procedure for how to register and configure your data service in the book for the data service. If, for example, you are using Sun Cluster HA for Oracle, see Registering and Configuring Sun Cluster HA for Oracle in Sun Cluster Data Service for Oracle Guide for Solaris OS.

For more information about how to use the commands to administer data service resources, see Chapter 2, Administering Data Service Resources.

Summary by Task of Tools for Administering Data Service Resources

The following table summarizes by task which tool you can use to administer data service resources. For more information about these tasks and for details about how to use the command line to complete related procedures, see Chapter 2, Administering Data Service Resources.

Table 1–2 Tools for Administering Data Service Resources

Task	Sun Cluster Manager	SPARC: Sun Management Center	clsetup Utility
Register a resource type	+	_	+
Create a resource group	+	_	+
Add a resource to a resource group	+	_	+
Suspend the automatic recovery actions of a resource group	+	_	+
Resume the automatic recovery actions of a resource group	+	_	+
Bring a resource group online	+	+	+
Remove a resource group	+	+	+
Remove a resource	+	+	+
Switch the current primary of a resource group	+	_	+
Enable a resource	+	+	+
Disable a resource	+	+	+
Move a resource group to the unmanaged state	+	_	+
Display resource type, resource group, and resource configuration information	+	+	+
Change resource properties	+	_	+
Clear the STOP_FAILED error flag on resources	+	_	+
Clear the START_FAILED resource state for a resource	+	_	+
Add a node to a resource group	+	_	+