ldmd - Logical Domains Manager daemon
/opt/SUNWldm/bin/ldmd
The ldmd daemon is referred to as the Logical Domains Manager. It is the daemon program for the ldm command, which is used to create and manage logical domains. The ldmd daemon runs on the control domain, which is the initial domain created by the service processor (SP). For those platforms that have physical domains, the Logical Domains Manager runs only in the control domain of each physical domain. The control domain is named primary.
A logical domain is a discrete logical grouping with its own operating system, resources, and identity within a single system. Each logical domain can be created, destroyed, reconfigured, and rebooted independently, without requiring a power cycle of the server. You can use logical domains to run a variety of applications in different domains and keep them independent for security purposes.
You can use the svccfg command to modify the following properties:
When inter-vnet-link=auto, this property is the maximum number of virtual networks that are permitted to enable inter-vnet links. When the number of virtual networks connected to the same virtual switch exceeds this limit, inter-vnet links are disabled automatically. The default value is 8.
Specifies the autorecovery policy. This property can have one of the following values:
autorecovery_policy=1 – Logs warning messages when an autosave configuration is newer than the corresponding running configuration. These messages are logged in the ldmd SMF log file. The user must manually perform any configuration recovery. This is the default policy.
autorecovery_policy=2 – Displays a notification message if an autosave configuration is newer than the corresponding running configuration. This notification message is printed in the output of any ldm command the first time an ldm command is issued after each restart of the Logical Domains Manager. The user must manually perform any configuration recovery.
autorecovery_policy=3 – Automatically updates the configuration if an autosave configuration is newer than the corresponding running configuration. This action overwrites the SP configuration that will be used during the next power cycle. This configuration is updated with the newer configuration that is saved on the control domain. This action does not impact the currently running configuration. It impacts only the configuration that will be used during the next power cycle. A message is also logged, which states that a newer configuration has been saved on the SP and that it will be booted the next time the system performs a power cycle. These messages are logged in the ldmd SMF log file.
Specifies the CPU autoreplacement policy for the Fujitsu M10 platform and the Fujitsu SPARC M12 platform. This property can have one of the following values:
autoreplacement_policy_cpu=1 – Enables the CPU autoreplacement process, which attempts to automatically replace faulty CPU resources. This is the default policy.
autoreplacement_policy_cpu=0 – Disables CPU autoreplacement process.
Specifies the maximum number of retries for the CPU autoreplacement process on the Fujitsu M10 platform and the Fujitsu SPARC M12 platform. A value of 0 specifies that the number of retries are unlimited. The default value is 5 retries.
Specifies the interval in seconds between retries for the CPU autoreplacement process on the Fujitsu M10 platform and the Fujitsu SPARC M12 platform. The minimum interval is 1 second. The default value is 300 seconds.
Specifies which shutdown method to use. If default_quick_stop is set to true when the Logical Domains Manager is started, the next ldm stop-domain command uses the –q method unless overridden on the command line. If default_quick_stop is set to false, the ldm stop-domain command uses the shutdown command method, if available in the specified domain, or automatically falls back to the –q option. The default value is false.
Specifies the CPU core remap policy to use when the SP uses the deleteboard command to make a CPU core remap request, or when CPU autoreplacement requires a CPU core remap.
Valid values are as follows:
auto selects the most suitable policy for the system. The default value is auto.
enable enables the all CPU core remap operations.
disable disables the all CPU core remap operations.
This property pertains only to Fujitsu M10 platforms and Fujitsu SPARC M12 platforms.
Enforces the setting of fj-software-limit-pagesize=256MB for a new domain. The default value is false.
This property pertains only to the Fujitsu M10 platform and the Fujitsu SPARC M12 platform.
Enables or disables Power Management (PM) at ldmd startup on Fujitsu SPARC systems. The default value is true, which means that PM is enabled.
This property pertains only to the Fujitsu M10 platform and the Fujitsu SPARC M12 platform.
Specifies the resource removal policy to use when the SP uses the deleteboard command to make a dynamic resource removal request. This property applies only to the Fujitsu M10 platform and the Fujitsu SPARC M12 platform.
The following are valid policy values:
auto – Uses the most recently supported fj_ppar_dr_policy policy value, which is ratio. The default policy is auto.
ratio – Keeps the resource for each domain in the same relative proportion until the specified resource has been removed from the domains.
This policy requires that all the domains in the system are installed with at least the Oracle Solaris 11.3 OS. The targeted policy is used if any domain is installed with an older version of the Oracle Solaris OS.
targeted – Removes resources only from domains that are assigned resources on the board to be deleted.
Specifies the number of hops (or subnets) a MAC collision detection message is permitted to traverse before the message is dropped. Valid values are 0 (use default value), 1 (same subnet), 32 (same site), 64 (same region), 128 (same continent), and 255 (unrestricted). By default, hops is set to 1, which means that multicast messages are sent only to other managers on the same subnet. When hops is set to 0, ldmd uses the default value, which is 1.
Enables a guest domain migration from another system to this system if xmpp_enabled is also set to true. The default value is true.
Specifies the property values that you can also set by using the ldm set-logctl command. Separate each property with a colon character (:). For example, to set the cmd property value to resp and to set the debug property value to on, run the setprop ldmd logctl = cmd=resp:debug=on command. To make the changes take affect, refresh and restart the ldmd service.
Performs a MAC address collision check during startup if the value is true. The default value is false. Performing this validation might delay the start of the Logical Domains Manager. Any MAC address collisions are logged and the Logical Domains Manager continues to run.
Specifies whether to permit a domain migration between servers that support Silicon Secured Memory (SSM) even if one of the machines does not have support for the migration of Application Data Integrity (ADI) version information that is introduced in Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.5.
If both the source machine and the target machine are running the latest versions of the Oracle VM Server for SPARC software, you do not need to use this SMF property.
Caution - If you intend to perform a domain migration on your servers that support SSM, it is best that they run at least the Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.5 software. If this is not possible, take extreme caution when using the ldmd/migration_adi_legacy_compat SMF property. Improper use of this property can result in undefined application behavior if ADI is in use in the domain being migrated. |
By default, the property value is false, which prevents a domain migration unless both the source machine and the target machine support SSM and run the required version of the Oracle VM Server for SPARC software. This property has no effect on servers that do not support SSM.
When the value is true, the domain migration proceeds without support for the migration of ADI version information.
So, if either the source machine or target machine runs a version of the Oracle VM Server for SPARC software that is older than 3.5, which does not support the migration of ADI version information, the migration is permitted.
Only set the ldmd/migration_adi_legacy_compat SMF property value to true if both the following circumstances are true:
You cannot upgrade both the source machine and target machine to a version of the Oracle VM Server for SPARC software that supports the migration of ADI version information
You know for certain that ADI versioning is not in use within the domain to be migrated
Setting this property to true permits migrations where ADI version information is not transferred to the target machine. This situation can result in undefined application behavior if ADI is in use in the domain being migrated.
The ldmd/migration_adi_legacy_compat SMF property is not recognized by Oracle VM Server for SPARC versions older than 3.5. Use of this property is applicable only on a source machine or a target machine is running at least Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.5.
Enforces the authentication of domain migrations to the system. The default behavior requires the user to be authenticated. This property does not affect migrations from the system. To permit a migration without specifying a password set migration_authn_required to false on the target machine.
This property is used only by the XML/XMPP interface and not by the ldm migrate-domain command, which always requires a password to be given for a migration.
Controls whether an SP configuration is saved following a successful incoming or outgoing migration.
If the property is not present or is set to false, no SP configuration is saved following a migration. If the property value is set to true, the post-migration SP configuration is saved under the reserved name @post-migration. The default property value is false.
If the migration_save_spconfig property value is different on the source machine and the target machine, an ldm migrate-domain command that does not specify the –s option rejects the migration request.
If either the source machine or the target machine is running an older version of the Logical Domains Manager, the migration request is rejected immediately if the newer party has migration_save_spconfig=true.
The automated saving of a post-migration SP configuration interferes with the way that Oracle VM Manager maintains the system configuration. If Oracle VM Manager is running, the migration_save_spconfig property is ignored. The ovm_manager property indicates whether Oracle VM Manager is in use.
Controls the number of passes made on the source machine to copy memory to the target machine during a migration. The default value is 3. Allowable values range from 2 through 20.
Enables or disables Power Management (PM) at ldmd startup. The default value is false, which means that PM is disabled.
In addition, when the ldmd/pm_enabled property value is false, the PM Observability Module functionality is also disabled at ldmd startup. This functionality is disabled regardless of the ldmd/pm_observability_enabled SMF property value.
Enables or disables the Power Management (PM) Observability Module at ldmd startup. When this module is enabled, you can run the ldmpower command to view power-consumption data. See the ldmpower(8) man page. The default value is true.
Enables a guest domain migration from this system to another system if xmpp_enabled is also set to true. The default value is true.
Determines the action that is taken when recovery mode is requested by the SP. This property does not apply to the SPARC T4, and SPARC M4 servers. The following are the valid values:
auto performs a recovery without intervention by the administrator. This is the default behavior.
never specifies that no recovery is to be performed and that the system remains in the factory-default configuration.
Specifies the root domain boot timeout during recovery in minutes. Valid values start at 5 minutes. The default value is 30 minutes.
Specifies the amount of time in seconds that a graceful shutdown waits for the domains to stop. The ldm stop-domain command issues an error if the domain or domains do not stop after the specified timeout expires. The shutdown_timeout value must be greater than zero. The default value is 100 seconds.
Specifies the location of the TLS certificate ldmd uses for remote XMPP and migration connections. The default is /var/opt/SUNWldm/server.crt, which is automatically created as needed.
Specifies whether to perform full hostname matching when evaluating a remote certificate's validity. The default is false.
Specifies the location of the TLS certificate's private key ldmd uses for remote XMPP and migration connections. The default is /var/opt/SUNWldm/server.key, which is automatically created as needed.
Enables the ldmd XMPP server to listen for configuration requests from third-party management applications. Also, permits the ldmd daemon to communicate with the ldmd daemon on another system to coordinate a migration between the two systems. The default value is true.
See the attributes(7) man page for a description of the following attributes.
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svcs(1), attributes(7), smf(7), drd(8), ldm(8), ldmad(8), ldmpower(8), svcadm(8), vntsd(8)
The ldmd service is managed by the Service Management Facility (SMF) and uses the svc:/ldoms/ldmd:default service identifier. See the smf(7) man page.
To have the changes made to these SMF properties take effect, you must refresh and restart the service.
Use the svcadm command to perform administrative actions on this service, such as enabling, disabling, refreshing, or requesting a restart. Use the svcs command to query the service's status.
For more information about the ldmd SMF properties, see the Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.6 Administration Guide.