New Features and Functionality
The following table lists new features and functionality that require updates to the Sun Cluster documentation. The second column identifies the documentation that was updated. Contact your Sun sales representative for the complete list of supported hardware and software.
Table 1–1 New Features and Functionality|
Feature or Functionality |
Documentation Updates |
|---|---|
|
HAStoragePlus |
The Sun Cluster 3.0 5/02 Supplement contains updates to the Sun Cluster 3.0 12/01 Data Services Installation and Configuration Guide and the Sun Cluster 3.0 12/01 Data Services Developer's Guide to support the HAStoragePlus resource type. The HAStoragePlus resource type can be used to make a local file system highly available within a Sun Cluster environment. The Sun Cluster 3.0 5/02 Error Messages Guide documents new HAStoragePlus error messages. |
|
Prioritized Service Management (RGOffload) |
The Sun Cluster 3.0 5/02 Supplement contains new procedures and updates to the Sun Cluster 3.0 12/01 Data Services Installation and Configuration Guide to support the RGOffload resource type. RGOffload allows your cluster to automatically free a node's resources for critical data services by off-loading resource groups containing non-critical data services. The Sun Cluster 3.0 5/02 Error Messages Guide documents new RGOffload error messages. |
|
Sun Cluster Security Hardening support for additional data services |
The Sun Cluster Security Hardening documentation is available at http://www.sun.com/security/blueprints. From this URL, scroll down to the Architecture heading to locate the article on Sun Cluster Security Hardening. See Sun Cluster Security Hardening for more information. |
|
SunPlex Agent Builder enhancements |
The Sun Cluster 3.0 5/02 Supplement contains updates to the Sun Cluster 3.0 12/01 Data Services Developer's Guide to support creation of a generic data service (GDS), a single pre-compiled data service, by using SunPlex Agent Builder. |
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Uninstalling Sun Cluster software |
The Sun Cluster 3.0 5/02 Supplement contains new cluster-software uninstallation procedures and updates to related procedures in the Sun Cluster 3.0 12/01 Software Installation Guide and the Sun Cluster 3.0 12/01 System Administration Guide. The new -r option to scinstall(1M) removes Sun Cluster software from a node. |
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Upgrade to Sun Cluster 3.0 5/02 software from any previous release of Sun Cluster 3.0 software |
Follow procedures in “Upgrading to a Sun Cluster 3.0 Software Update Release” in the Sun Cluster 3.0 12/01 Software Installation Guide to upgrade from any previous release of Sun Cluster 3.0 software. See Upgrading to a Sun Cluster 3.0 Software Update Release for corrections to the Solaris 8 upgrade instructions. |
Notes on New Features and Functionality
This section includes additional information on new features and functionality.
Sun Cluster Security Hardening
Sun Cluster Security Hardening uses the Solaris Operating Environment hardening techniques recommended by the Sun BluePrintsTM program to achieve basic security hardening for clusters. The Solaris Security Toolkit automates the implementation of Sun Cluster Security Hardening.
The Sun Cluster Security Hardening documentation is available at http://www.sun.com/security/blueprints. From this URL, scroll down to the Architecture heading to locate the article “Securing the Sun Cluster 3.0 Software.” This document describes how to secure Sun Cluster 3.0 deployments in a Solaris 8 environment. This description includes the use of the Solaris Security Toolkit and other best-practice security techniques recommended by Sun security experts.
Sun Cluster Security Hardening supports all Sun Cluster 3.0 5/02 data services listed in the table below, in a Solaris 8 environment.
Note –
Sun Cluster Security Hardening supports all Sun Cluster 3.0 5/02 data services on Solaris 8 only. Security hardening is not available for Sun Cluster 3.0 5/02 on Solaris 9.
Table 1–2 Data Services Supported by Sun Cluster Security Hardening
|
Data Service Agent |
Application Version: Failover |
Application Version: Scalable |
|---|---|---|
|
Sun Cluster HA for iPlanet Messaging Server |
6.0 |
4.1 |
|
Sun Cluster HA for iPlanet Web Server |
6.0 |
4.1 |
|
Sun Cluster HA for Apache |
1.3.9 |
1.3.9 |
|
Sun Cluster HA for SAP |
4.6D (32 and 64 bit) |
4.6D (32 and 64 bit) |
|
Sun Cluster HA for iPlanet Directory Server |
4.12 |
N/A |
|
Sun Cluster HA for NetBackup |
3.4 |
N/A |
|
Sun Cluster HA for Oracle |
8.1.7 and 9i (32 and 64 bit) |
N/A |
|
Sun Cluster HA for Sybase ASE |
12.0 (32 bit) |
N/A |
|
Sun Cluster Support for Oracle Parallel Server/Real Application Clusters |
8.1.7 and 9i (32 and 64 bit) |
N/A |
|
Sun Cluster HA for DNS |
with OS |
N/A |
|
Sun Cluster HA for NFS |
with OS |
N/A |
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