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Chapter 1 Introduction to Administering Oracle Solaris Cluster
Overview of Administering Oracle Solaris Cluster
Working With a Zone Cluster
Oracle Solaris OS Feature Restrictions
Administration Tools
Graphical User Interface
Command-Line Interface
Preparing to Administer the Cluster
Documenting an Oracle Solaris Cluster Hardware Configuration
Using an Administrative Console
Backing Up the Cluster
Administering the Cluster
Logging Into the Cluster Remotely
How to Connect Securely to Cluster Consoles
How to Access the Cluster Configuration Utilities
How to Display Oracle Solaris Cluster Release and Version Information
How to Display Configured Resource Types, Resource Groups, and Resources
How to Check the Status of Cluster Components
How to Check the Status of the Public Network
How to View the Cluster Configuration
How to Validate a Basic Cluster Configuration
How to Check the Global Mount Points
How to View the Contents of Oracle Solaris Cluster Command Logs
Chapter 2 Oracle Solaris Cluster and RBAC
Setting Up and Using RBAC With Oracle Solaris Cluster
Oracle Solaris Cluster RBAC Rights Profiles
Creating and Assigning an RBAC Role With an Oracle Solaris Cluster Management Rights Profile
How to Create a Role From the Command Line
Modifying a User's RBAC Properties
How to Modify a User's RBAC Properties by Using the User Accounts Tool
How to Modify a User's RBAC Properties From the Command Line
Chapter 3 Shutting Down and Booting a Cluster
Overview of Shutting Down and Booting a Cluster
How to Shut Down a Cluster
How to Boot a Cluster
How to Reboot a Cluster
Shutting Down and Booting a Single Node in a Cluster
How to Shut Down a Node
How to Boot a Node
How to Reboot a Node
How to Boot a Node in Noncluster Mode
Repairing a Full /var File System
How to Repair a Full /var File System
Chapter 4 Data Replication Approaches
Understanding Data Replication
Supported Data Replication Methods
Using Storage-Based Data Replication Within a Cluster
Requirements and Restrictions When Using Storage-Based Data Replication Within a Cluster
Manual Recovery Concerns When Using Storage-Based Data Replication Within a Cluster
Best Practices When Using Storage-Based Data Replication
Chapter 5 Administering Global Devices, Disk-Path Monitoring, and Cluster File Systems
Overview of Administering Global Devices and the Global Namespace
Global Device Permissions for Solaris Volume Manager
Dynamic Reconfiguration With Global Devices
Administering Storage-Based Replicated Devices
Administering EMC Symmetrix Remote Data Facility Replicated Devices
How to Configure an EMC SRDF Replication Group
How to Configure DID Devices for Replication Using EMC SRDF
How to Verify EMC SRDF Replicated Global Device Group Configuration
Example: Configuring an SRDF Replication Group for Oracle Solaris Cluster
How to Recover EMC SRDF Data after a Primary Room's Complete Failure
Overview of Administering Cluster File Systems
Cluster File System Restrictions
Administering Device Groups
How to Update the Global-Devices Namespace
How to Change the Size of a lofi Device That Is Used for the Global-Devices Namespace
Migrating the Global-Devices Namespace
How to Migrate the Global-Devices Namespace From a Dedicated Partition to a lofi Device
How to Migrate the Global-Devices Namespace From a lofi Device to a Dedicated Partition
Adding and Registering Device Groups
How to Add and Register a Device Group (Solaris Volume Manager)
How to Add and Register a Device Group (Raw-Disk)
How to Add and Register a Replicated Device Group (ZFS)
Maintaining Device Groups
How to Remove and Unregister a Device Group (Solaris Volume Manager)
How to Remove a Node From All Device Groups
How to Remove a Node From a Device Group (Solaris Volume Manager)
How to Remove a Node From a Raw-Disk Device Group
How to Change Device Group Properties
How to Set the Desired Number of Secondaries for a Device Group
How to List a Device Group Configuration
How to Switch the Primary for a Device Group
How to Put a Device Group in Maintenance State
Administering the SCSI Protocol Settings for Storage Devices
How to Display the Default Global SCSI Protocol Settings for All Storage Devices
How to Display the SCSI Protocol of a Single Storage Device
How to Change the Default Global Fencing Protocol Settings for All Storage Devices
How to Change the Fencing Protocol for a Single Storage Device
Administering Cluster File Systems
How to Add a Cluster File System
How to Remove a Cluster File System
How to Check Global Mounts in a Cluster
Administering Disk-Path Monitoring
How to Monitor a Disk Path
How to Unmonitor a Disk Path
How to Print Failed Disk Paths
How to Resolve a Disk-Path Status Error
How to Monitor Disk Paths From a File
How to Enable the Automatic Rebooting of a Node When All Monitored Shared-Disk Paths Fail
How to Disable the Automatic Rebooting of a Node When All Monitored Shared-Disk Paths Fail
Chapter 6 Administering Quorum
Administering Quorum Devices
Dynamic Reconfiguration With Quorum Devices
Adding a Quorum Device
How to Add a Shared Disk Quorum Device
How to Add an Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance NAS Quorum Device
How to Add a Quorum Server Quorum Device
Removing or Replacing a Quorum Device
How to Remove a Quorum Device
How to Remove the Last Quorum Device From a Cluster
How to Replace a Quorum Device
Maintaining Quorum Devices
How to Modify a Quorum Device Node List
How to Put a Quorum Device Into Maintenance State
How to Bring a Quorum Device Out of Maintenance State
How to List the Quorum Configuration
How to Repair a Quorum Device
Changing the Quorum's Default Time-out
Administering Oracle Solaris Cluster Quorum Servers
Starting and Stopping the Quorum Server Software
How to Start a Quorum Server
How to Stop a Quorum Server
Displaying Information About the Quorum Server
How to Display Information About the Quorum Server
Cleaning Up Stale Quorum Server Cluster Information
How to Clean Up the Quorum Server Configuration Information
Chapter 7 Administering Cluster Interconnects and Public Networks
Administering the Cluster Interconnects
Dynamic Reconfiguration With Cluster Interconnects
How to Check the Status of the Cluster Interconnect
How to Add Cluster Transport Cables, Transport Adapters, or Transport Switches
How to Remove Cluster Transport Cables, Transport Adapters, and Transport Switches
How to Enable a Cluster Transport Cable
How to Disable a Cluster Transport Cable
How to Determine a Transport Adapter's Instance Number
How to Change the Private Network Address or Address Range of an Existing Cluster
Troubleshooting Cluster Interconnects
How to Enable a Cluster Interconnect
Administering the Public Network
How to Administer IP Network Multipathing Groups in a Cluster
Dynamic Reconfiguration With Public Network Interfaces
Chapter 8 Administering Cluster Nodes
Adding a Node to a Cluster or Zone Cluster
How to Add a Node to an Existing Cluster or Zone Cluster
Restoring Cluster Nodes
How to Restore a Node from the Unified Archive
Removing a Node From a Cluster
How to Remove a Node From a Zone Cluster
How to Remove a Node From the Cluster Software Configuration
How to Remove Connectivity Between an Array and a Single Node, in a Cluster With Greater Than Two-Node Connectivity
How to Correct Error Messages
Chapter 9 Administering the Cluster
Overview of Administering the Cluster
How to Change the Cluster Name
How to Map Node ID to Node Name
How to Work With New Cluster Node Authentication
How to Reset the Time of Day in a Cluster
SPARC: How to Display the OpenBoot PROM (OBP) on a Node
How to Change the Node Private Hostname
How to Rename a Node
How to Change the Logical Hostnames Used by Existing Oracle Solaris Cluster Logical Hostname Resources
How to Put a Node Into Maintenance State
How to Bring a Node Out of Maintenance State
How to Uninstall Oracle Solaris Cluster Software From a Cluster Node
Troubleshooting a Node Uninstallation
Unremoved Cluster File System Entries
Unremoved Listing in Device Groups
Creating, Setting Up, and Managing the Oracle Solaris Cluster SNMP Event MIB
How to Enable an SNMP Event MIB
How to Disable an SNMP Event MIB
How to Change an SNMP Event MIB
How to Enable an SNMP Host to Receive SNMP Traps on a Node
How to Disable an SNMP Host From Receiving SNMP Traps on a Node
How to Add an SNMP User on a Node
How to Remove an SNMP User From a Node
Configuring Load Limits
How to Configure Load Limits on a Node
Performing Zone Cluster Administrative Tasks
How to Configure a Zone Cluster from the Unified Archive
How to Install a Zone Cluster from the Unified Archive
How to Add a Network Address to a Zone Cluster
How to Remove a Zone Cluster
How to Remove a File System From a Zone Cluster
How to Remove a Storage Device From a Zone Cluster
Troubleshooting
Running an Application Outside the Global Cluster
How to Take a Solaris Volume Manager Metaset From Nodes Booted in Noncluster Mode
Restoring a Corrupted Diskset
How to Save the Solaris Volume Manager Software Configuration
How to Purge the Corrupted Diskset
How to Recreate the Solaris Volume Manager Software Configuration
Chapter 10 Configuring Control of CPU Usage
Introduction to CPU Control
Choosing a Scenario
Fair Share Scheduler
Configuring CPU Control
How to Control CPU Usage in a Global-Cluster Node
Chapter 11 Updating Your Software
Overview of Updating Oracle Solaris Cluster Software
Updating Oracle Solaris Cluster Software
Upgrading the Cluster to a New Release
Updating a Specific Package
How to Update a Specific Package
Updating a Zone Cluster
How to Update a solaris Brand Zone Cluster
How to Update a solaris10 Brand Zone Cluster
Updating a Quorum Server or AI Installation Server
How to Update a Quorum Server or AI Installation Server
Uninstalling a Package
How to Uninstall a Package
How to Uninstall Quorum Server or AI Installation Server Packages
Updating Tips
Chapter 12 Backing Up and Restoring a Cluster
Backing Up a Cluster
How to Perform Online Backups for Mirrors (Solaris Volume Manager)
How to Back Up the Cluster Configuration
Restoring Cluster Files
How to Restore the ZFS Root (/) File System (Solaris Volume Manager)
Chapter 13 Using the Oracle Solaris Cluster GUI
Overview of Oracle Solaris Cluster Manager
Accessing the Oracle Solaris Cluster Manager Software
How to Access Oracle Solaris Cluster Manager
Troubleshooting
How to Configure Common Agent Container Security Keys
How to Check the Network Bind Address
Using Topology to Monitor the Cluster
How to Use Topology to Monitor and Update Your Cluster
Appendix A Example
Configuring Host-Based Data Replication With Sun StorageTek Availability Suite Software
Understanding Sun StorageTek Availability Suite Software in a Cluster
Data Replication Methods Used by Sun StorageTek Availability Suite Software
Remote Mirror Replication
Point-in-Time Snapshot
Replication in the Example Configuration
Guidelines for Configuring Host-Based Data Replication Between Clusters
Configuring Replication Resource Groups
Configuring Application Resource Groups
Configuring Resource Groups for a Failover Application
Configuring Resource Groups for a Scalable Application
Guidelines for Managing a Takeover
Task Map: Example of a Data Replication Configuration
Connecting and Installing the Clusters
Example of How to Configure Device Groups and Resource Groups
How to Configure a Device Group on the Primary Cluster
How to Configure a Device Group on the Secondary Cluster
How to Configure the File System on the Primary Cluster for the NFS Application
How to Configure the File System on the Secondary Cluster for the NFS Application
How to Create a Replication Resource Group on the Primary Cluster
How to Create a Replication Resource Group on the Secondary Cluster
How to Create an NFS Application Resource Group on the Primary Cluster
How to Create an NFS Application Resource Group on the Secondary Cluster
Example of How to Enable Data Replication
How to Enable Replication on the Primary Cluster
How to Enable Replication on the Secondary Cluster
Example of How to Perform Data Replication
How to Perform a Remote Mirror Replication
How to Perform a Point-in-Time Snapshot
How to Verify That Replication Is Configured Correctly
Example of How to Manage a Takeover
How to Update the DNS Entry
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Oracle
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Solaris Cluster System Administration Guide
October 2015
This book describes how to administer an Oracle Solaris Cluster configuration.
Document Information
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1 Introduction to Administering Oracle Solaris Cluster
Overview of Administering Oracle Solaris Cluster
Working With a Zone Cluster
Oracle Solaris OS Feature Restrictions
Administration Tools
Graphical User Interface
Command-Line Interface
Preparing to Administer the Cluster
Documenting an Oracle Solaris Cluster Hardware Configuration
Using an Administrative Console
Backing Up the Cluster
Administering the Cluster
Logging Into the Cluster Remotely
How to Connect Securely to Cluster Consoles
How to Access the Cluster Configuration Utilities
How to Display Oracle Solaris Cluster Release and Version Information
How to Display Configured Resource Types, Resource Groups, and Resources
How to Check the Status of Cluster Components
How to Check the Status of the Public Network
How to View the Cluster Configuration
How to Validate a Basic Cluster Configuration
How to Check the Global Mount Points
How to View the Contents of Oracle Solaris Cluster Command Logs
2 Oracle Solaris Cluster and RBAC
Setting Up and Using RBAC With Oracle Solaris Cluster
Oracle Solaris Cluster RBAC Rights Profiles
Creating and Assigning an RBAC Role With an Oracle Solaris Cluster Management Rights Profile
How to Create a Role From the Command Line
Modifying a User's RBAC Properties
How to Modify a User's RBAC Properties by Using the User Accounts Tool
How to Modify a User's RBAC Properties From the Command Line
3 Shutting Down and Booting a Cluster
Overview of Shutting Down and Booting a Cluster
How to Shut Down a Cluster
How to Boot a Cluster
How to Reboot a Cluster
Shutting Down and Booting a Single Node in a Cluster
How to Shut Down a Node
How to Boot a Node
How to Reboot a Node
How to Boot a Node in Noncluster Mode
Repairing a Full /var File System
How to Repair a Full /var File System
4 Data Replication Approaches
Understanding Data Replication
Supported Data Replication Methods
Using Storage-Based Data Replication Within a Cluster
Requirements and Restrictions When Using Storage-Based Data Replication Within a Cluster
Manual Recovery Concerns When Using Storage-Based Data Replication Within a Cluster
Best Practices When Using Storage-Based Data Replication
5 Administering Global Devices, Disk-Path Monitoring, and Cluster File Systems
Overview of Administering Global Devices and the Global Namespace
Global Device Permissions for Solaris Volume Manager
Dynamic Reconfiguration With Global Devices
Administering Storage-Based Replicated Devices
Administering EMC Symmetrix Remote Data Facility Replicated Devices
How to Configure an EMC SRDF Replication Group
How to Configure DID Devices for Replication Using EMC SRDF
How to Verify EMC SRDF Replicated Global Device Group Configuration
Example: Configuring an SRDF Replication Group for Oracle Solaris Cluster
How to Recover EMC SRDF Data after a Primary Room's Complete Failure
Overview of Administering Cluster File Systems
Cluster File System Restrictions
Administering Device Groups
How to Update the Global-Devices Namespace
How to Change the Size of a lofi Device That Is Used for the Global-Devices Namespace
Migrating the Global-Devices Namespace
How to Migrate the Global-Devices Namespace From a Dedicated Partition to a lofi Device
How to Migrate the Global-Devices Namespace From a lofi Device to a Dedicated Partition
Adding and Registering Device Groups
How to Add and Register a Device Group (Solaris Volume Manager)
How to Add and Register a Device Group (Raw-Disk)
How to Add and Register a Replicated Device Group (ZFS)
Maintaining Device Groups
How to Remove and Unregister a Device Group (Solaris Volume Manager)
How to Remove a Node From All Device Groups
How to Remove a Node From a Device Group (Solaris Volume Manager)
How to Remove a Node From a Raw-Disk Device Group
How to Change Device Group Properties
How to Set the Desired Number of Secondaries for a Device Group
How to List a Device Group Configuration
How to Switch the Primary for a Device Group
How to Put a Device Group in Maintenance State
Administering the SCSI Protocol Settings for Storage Devices
How to Display the Default Global SCSI Protocol Settings for All Storage Devices
How to Display the SCSI Protocol of a Single Storage Device
How to Change the Default Global Fencing Protocol Settings for All Storage Devices
How to Change the Fencing Protocol for a Single Storage Device
Administering Cluster File Systems
How to Add a Cluster File System
How to Remove a Cluster File System
How to Check Global Mounts in a Cluster
Administering Disk-Path Monitoring
How to Monitor a Disk Path
How to Unmonitor a Disk Path
How to Print Failed Disk Paths
How to Resolve a Disk-Path Status Error
How to Monitor Disk Paths From a File
How to Enable the Automatic Rebooting of a Node When All Monitored Shared-Disk Paths Fail
How to Disable the Automatic Rebooting of a Node When All Monitored Shared-Disk Paths Fail
6 Administering Quorum
Administering Quorum Devices
Dynamic Reconfiguration With Quorum Devices
Adding a Quorum Device
How to Add a Shared Disk Quorum Device
How to Add an Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance NAS Quorum Device
How to Add a Quorum Server Quorum Device
Removing or Replacing a Quorum Device
How to Remove a Quorum Device
How to Remove the Last Quorum Device From a Cluster
How to Replace a Quorum Device
Maintaining Quorum Devices
How to Modify a Quorum Device Node List
How to Put a Quorum Device Into Maintenance State
How to Bring a Quorum Device Out of Maintenance State
How to List the Quorum Configuration
How to Repair a Quorum Device
Changing the Quorum's Default Time-out
Administering Oracle Solaris Cluster Quorum Servers
Starting and Stopping the Quorum Server Software
How to Start a Quorum Server
How to Stop a Quorum Server
Displaying Information About the Quorum Server
How to Display Information About the Quorum Server
Cleaning Up Stale Quorum Server Cluster Information
How to Clean Up the Quorum Server Configuration Information
7 Administering Cluster Interconnects and Public Networks
Administering the Cluster Interconnects
Dynamic Reconfiguration With Cluster Interconnects
How to Check the Status of the Cluster Interconnect
How to Add Cluster Transport Cables, Transport Adapters, or Transport Switches
How to Remove Cluster Transport Cables, Transport Adapters, and Transport Switches
How to Enable a Cluster Transport Cable
How to Disable a Cluster Transport Cable
How to Determine a Transport Adapter's Instance Number
How to Change the Private Network Address or Address Range of an Existing Cluster
Troubleshooting Cluster Interconnects
How to Enable a Cluster Interconnect
Administering the Public Network
How to Administer IP Network Multipathing Groups in a Cluster
Dynamic Reconfiguration With Public Network Interfaces
8 Administering Cluster Nodes
Adding a Node to a Cluster or Zone Cluster
How to Add a Node to an Existing Cluster or Zone Cluster
Restoring Cluster Nodes
How to Restore a Node from the Unified Archive
Removing a Node From a Cluster
How to Remove a Node From a Zone Cluster
How to Remove a Node From the Cluster Software Configuration
How to Remove Connectivity Between an Array and a Single Node, in a Cluster With Greater Than Two-Node Connectivity
How to Correct Error Messages
9 Administering the Cluster
Overview of Administering the Cluster
How to Change the Cluster Name
How to Map Node ID to Node Name
How to Work With New Cluster Node Authentication
How to Reset the Time of Day in a Cluster
SPARC: How to Display the OpenBoot PROM (OBP) on a Node
How to Change the Node Private Hostname
How to Rename a Node
How to Change the Logical Hostnames Used by Existing Oracle Solaris Cluster Logical Hostname Resources
How to Put a Node Into Maintenance State
How to Bring a Node Out of Maintenance State
How to Uninstall Oracle Solaris Cluster Software From a Cluster Node
Troubleshooting a Node Uninstallation
Unremoved Cluster File System Entries
Unremoved Listing in Device Groups
Creating, Setting Up, and Managing the Oracle Solaris Cluster SNMP Event MIB
How to Enable an SNMP Event MIB
How to Disable an SNMP Event MIB
How to Change an SNMP Event MIB
How to Enable an SNMP Host to Receive SNMP Traps on a Node
How to Disable an SNMP Host From Receiving SNMP Traps on a Node
How to Add an SNMP User on a Node
How to Remove an SNMP User From a Node
Configuring Load Limits
How to Configure Load Limits on a Node
Performing Zone Cluster Administrative Tasks
How to Configure a Zone Cluster from the Unified Archive
How to Install a Zone Cluster from the Unified Archive
How to Add a Network Address to a Zone Cluster
How to Remove a Zone Cluster
How to Remove a File System From a Zone Cluster
How to Remove a Storage Device From a Zone Cluster
Troubleshooting
Running an Application Outside the Global Cluster
How to Take a Solaris Volume Manager Metaset From Nodes Booted in Noncluster Mode
Restoring a Corrupted Diskset
How to Save the Solaris Volume Manager Software Configuration
How to Purge the Corrupted Diskset
How to Recreate the Solaris Volume Manager Software Configuration
10 Configuring Control of CPU Usage
Introduction to CPU Control
Choosing a Scenario
Fair Share Scheduler
Configuring CPU Control
How to Control CPU Usage in a Global-Cluster Node
11 Updating Your Software
Overview of Updating Oracle Solaris Cluster Software
Updating Oracle Solaris Cluster Software
Upgrading the Cluster to a New Release
Updating a Specific Package
How to Update a Specific Package
Updating a Zone Cluster
How to Update a solaris Brand Zone Cluster
How to Update a solaris10 Brand Zone Cluster
Updating a Quorum Server or AI Installation Server
How to Update a Quorum Server or AI Installation Server
Uninstalling a Package
How to Uninstall a Package
How to Uninstall Quorum Server or AI Installation Server Packages
Updating Tips
12 Backing Up and Restoring a Cluster
Backing Up a Cluster
How to Perform Online Backups for Mirrors (Solaris Volume Manager)
How to Back Up the Cluster Configuration
Restoring Cluster Files
How to Restore the ZFS Root (/) File System (Solaris Volume Manager)
13 Using the Oracle Solaris Cluster GUI
Overview of Oracle Solaris Cluster Manager
Accessing the Oracle Solaris Cluster Manager Software
How to Access Oracle Solaris Cluster Manager
Troubleshooting
How to Configure Common Agent Container Security Keys
How to Check the Network Bind Address
Using Topology to Monitor the Cluster
How to Use Topology to Monitor and Update Your Cluster
Appendix A Example
Configuring Host-Based Data Replication With Sun StorageTek Availability Suite Software
Understanding Sun StorageTek Availability Suite Software in a Cluster
Data Replication Methods Used by Sun StorageTek Availability Suite Software
Remote Mirror Replication
Point-in-Time Snapshot
Replication in the Example Configuration
Guidelines for Configuring Host-Based Data Replication Between Clusters
Configuring Replication Resource Groups
Configuring Application Resource Groups
Configuring Resource Groups for a Failover Application
Configuring Resource Groups for a Scalable Application
Guidelines for Managing a Takeover
Task Map: Example of a Data Replication Configuration
Connecting and Installing the Clusters
Example of How to Configure Device Groups and Resource Groups
How to Configure a Device Group on the Primary Cluster
How to Configure a Device Group on the Secondary Cluster
How to Configure the File System on the Primary Cluster for the NFS Application
How to Configure the File System on the Secondary Cluster for the NFS Application
How to Create a Replication Resource Group on the Primary Cluster
How to Create a Replication Resource Group on the Secondary Cluster
How to Create an NFS Application Resource Group on the Primary Cluster
How to Create an NFS Application Resource Group on the Secondary Cluster
Example of How to Enable Data Replication
How to Enable Replication on the Primary Cluster
How to Enable Replication on the Secondary Cluster
Example of How to Perform Data Replication
How to Perform a Remote Mirror Replication
How to Perform a Point-in-Time Snapshot
How to Verify That Replication Is Configured Correctly
Example of How to Manage a Takeover
How to Update the DNS Entry
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