During protection group validation, the Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance remote replication layer validates the application resource groups and the replication entities by verifying that an application resource group in the protection group has its Auto_start_on_new_cluster property set to False.
Setting the Auto_start_on_new_cluster property to False prevents the Oracle Solaris Cluster resource group manager from automatically starting the application resource groups. In this case, the startup of resource groups is reserved for the Geographic Edition software.
The appliance geocontrol module supplies a script that is used by the script-based plug-in module. The script entry points require the same set of arguments. These arguments are validated for semantics and completeness. The following validation checks are performed:
Are all of the mandatory arguments defined?
Is the appliance monitoring resource defined?
Are the hostnames of the local and remote appliances specified?
Are the login credentials provided to execute oscgeo7kcli commands?
Is the remote replication component name provided?
When the validation is complete, the Geographic Edition software creates and brings online the replication resource group and its resources, if they don't already exist. If a resource group or resource of the same name already exists, the Geographic Edition software might modify its properties. The software cannot create a new resource group or a resource of the same name if one already exists.