fomd(1M) is the core of the system controller (SC) failover mechanism. The fomd daemon detects faults on the local and remote SCs and takes the appropriate action (directing a failover/takeover).

The fomd daemon ensures that the necessary synchronization data between the two SCs is current. fomd runs on both the main and the spare SCs.

This daemon is automatically started by ssd(1M). Do not start it manually from the command line.

The following exit values are returned:

0

Successful completion.

>0

An error occurred.

The following configuration file is required:

/etc/opt/SUNWSMS/config/fomd.cf

Failover daemon configuration file

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes.

setfailover(1m), showfailover(1m)