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Sun N1 Service Provisioning System User's Guide for SAP Plug-In 1.0

Creating and Managing HA Storage Devices

The SAP Tasks page of the software enables you to create and manage storage.

Note –

The SAP AC environment is not supported.

This section describes the following tasks:

ProcedureHow to Create HA Storage Devices

This task creates the Highly Available Storage (HAS) targetable component in a resource group.

Note –

This task is a markOnly task.

Steps

  1. In the Common Tasks section of the N1 SPS browser interface, click SAP.

  2. In the Storage Management section of the SAP Tasks page, click Create.

  3. Click Run.

  4. In the Plan Parameters table, select the variable settings for the HAStoragePlus component.

    • If the variable settings have been created for this component, select the appropriate settings from the drop-down menu.

    • If the variable settings are not available from the drop-down menu:

      1. click Select From List.

        The Select Variable Settings From List window displays.

        • To create a new variable settings set, click Create Set and type a Set Name.

          The following list provides commonly updated variables for the HAStoragePlus component. To create a value for the component variable, click the check box in the component variable's row.

          Note –

          For information about component variables ending in UserExit, see User Exits.

          groupName

          This is a required field.

          Note –

          In the Sun Cluster environment, the groupName must equal the Sun Cluster resource group name.

          groupDescription

          A description of the group.

          resourceName

          Required in the Sun Cluster environment. The resourceName must equal the Sun Cluster resource name for the Sun Cluster envType.

          envType

          This is a required field. Identifies if this component will be deployed to a default, Sun Cluster, or SAP AC environment. Value can be : ac, sc, or default. Default value: default.

          createdBy

          Identifies the installer of the component.

          volumeManager

          There are two possible values: vxvm for Veritas and svm for Solaris Volume Manager.

          Note –

          If you are going to type a value in the Device Groups to be Imported plan variable, then you must enter a value for the volumeManager component variable.

          dgForceStartOptions

          Options to use if you need to forcefully bring the device group online. Default is set to force options for vxvm. Default value: -Ct

          targetRefName

          Virtual host name.

      2. Click Save.

    • To use component variables from another component, click Import Set.

      For more information about importing variable sets, see How to Run a Plan in Sun N1 Service Provisioning System 5.2 Operation and Provisioning Guide.

  5. Select a target host or target host set.

  6. Provide the plan variable.

    Device groups to be imported

    Comma separated list. Device group is a free format string. For example, cidg, dbdg. The plug–in imports the device groups to the current machine (targetHost).

    Note –

    If this variable is set, you must set the volumeManager component variable.

  7. Click the Run Plan (Includes Preflight) button.

    The Deployment Results page is displayed. If the plan fails, error messages are displayed.

ProcedureHow to Delete HA Storage Devices

Plan to delete High Availability Storage (HAS) component.

Note –

This task is a markOnly task.

Steps

  1. In the Common Tasks section of the N1 SPS browser interface, click SAP.

  2. In the Storage Management section of the SAP Tasks page, click Delete.

  3. Click Run.

  4. Select a target host or target host set.

  5. Provide the plan variable.

    Install path of the HAS component

    This is a required field. If you do not know the install path, return to the SAP Tasks page and click the View All link.

  6. Click the Run Plan (Includes Preflight) button.

    The Deployment Results page is displayed. If the plan fails, error messages are displayed.

ProcedureHow to Start HA Storage Devices

Prior to starting the HA Storage , the plug-in does not check any dependencies. After startup, the plug-in verifies that the main process is running. The main process for the SAP Application Server is the main dispatcher process.

Steps

  1. In the Common Tasks section of the N1 SPS browser interface, click SAP.

  2. In the Storage Management section of the SAP Tasks page, click Start.

  3. Click Run.

  4. Select a target host or target host set.

  5. Provide the plan variables.

    Install path of the HAS component

    This is a required field. If you do not know the install path, return to the SAP Tasks page and click the View All link.

    Force start the HAS component after normal start failed in the default environment

    For more information, see the vxdg(1M) man page.

    Caution – Caution –

    Make sure the device groups are not being used on another machine.

  6. Click the Run Plan (Includes Preflight) button.

    The Deployment Results page is displayed. If the plan fails, error messages are displayed.

ProcedureHow to Stop HA Storage Devices

This task calls the stop control block of the HAS component.

Steps

  1. In the Common Tasks section of the N1 SPS browser interface, click SAP.

  2. In the Storage Management section of the SAP Tasks page, click Stop.

  3. Click Run.

  4. Select a target host or target host set.

  5. Provide the plan variable.

    Install path of the HAS component

    This is a required field. If you do not know the install path, return to the SAP Tasks page and click the View All link.

  6. Click the Run Plan (Includes Preflight) button.

    The Deployment Results page is displayed. If the plan fails, error messages are displayed.

ProcedureHow to View All HA Storage Devices

Steps

  1. In the Common Tasks section of the N1 SPS browser interface, click SAP.

  2. In the Storage Management section of the SAP Tasks page, click View All.

    The Host Where Installed table is displayed.

ProcedureHow to Check the Online Status of HA Storage Device

Plan to check the online status of a High Availability Storage (HAS) component. Status is checked through corresponding volume manager commands.

Steps

  1. In the Common Tasks section of the N1 SPS browser interface, click SAP.

  2. In the Storage Management section of the SAP Tasks page, click Online Status.

  3. Click Run.

  4. Select a target host or target host set.

  5. Provide the plan variables.

    Install path of the HAS component

    This is a required field. If you do not know the install path, return to the SAP Tasks page and click the View All link.

  6. Click the Run Plan (Includes Preflight) button.

    The Deployment Results page is displayed. If the plan fails, error messages are displayed.

ProcedureHow to Check the Offline Status of HA Storage Device

Plan to check the offline status of the High Availability Storage (HAS) component. Status is checked through corresponding volume manager commands.

Steps

  1. In the Common Tasks section of the N1 SPS browser interface, click SAP.

  2. In the Storage Management section of the SAP Tasks page, click Offline Status.

  3. Click Run.

  4. Select a target host or target host set.

  5. Provide the plan variables.

    Install path of the HAS component

    This is a required field. If you do not know the install path, return to the SAP Tasks page and click the View All link.

  6. Click the Run Plan (Includes Preflight) button.

    The Deployment Results page is displayed. If the plan fails, error messages are displayed.