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PRIMECLUSTER  Installation and Administration Guide4.3

7.2.2 Cluster Application Operations

This section explains how to change the operation state of the PRIMECLUSTER system. The operations include starting and stopping a cluster application.

7.2.2.1 Starting a Cluster Application

The procedure for starting a cluster application is described below.

Operation Procedure:

  1. On the RMS tree in the RMS main window, right-click the cluster application to be started, and select Online from the pop-up menu that is displayed.

    The cluster application will start.

Information

You can also display the pop-up menu by right-clicking the target icon in an RMS graph or the RMS cluster table. For details on RMS graphs and the RMS cluster table, see "7.3.5 Viewing Detailed RMS Object Information" and "7.3.3 Concurrent Viewing of Node and Cluster Application States."

7.2.2.2 Stopping a Cluster Application

The procedure for stopping a cluster application is described below.

Operation Procedure:

  1. On the RMS tree in the RMS main window, right-click the cluster application to be stopped, and select Offline from the displayed pop-up menu.

    The cluster application will stop.

Information

You can also display the pop-up menu by right-clicking the target icon in an RMS graph or the RMS cluster table. For details on RMS graphs and the RMS cluster table, see "7.3.5 Viewing Detailed RMS Object Information" and "7.3.3 Concurrent Viewing of Node and Cluster Application States."

7.2.2.3 Switching a Cluster Application

The procedure for switching a cluster application is described below.

Operation Procedure:

  1. Right-click on the application object and select the Switch menu option.

    A pull-down menu appears listing the available nodes for switchover.

  2. Select the target node from the pull-down menu to switch the application to that node.

Information

You can also display the pop-up menu by right-clicking the target icon in an RMS graph or the RMS cluster table. For details on RMS graphs and the RMS cluster table, see "7.3.5 Viewing Detailed RMS Object Information" and "7.3.3 Concurrent Viewing of Node and Cluster Application States."

7.2.2.4 Bringing Faulted Cluster Application to Online State

The procedure for bringing a Faulted cluster application to Online is described below.

Operation Procedure:

  1. Right-click on the cluster application object in the RMS tree, and select Clear Fault.

    If you clear Fault while the cluster application is Online, RMS brings the faulted resource Online.

    If you clear Fault while the cluster application is Offline, RMS brings the faulted resource Offline.

Information

You can also display the pop-up menu by right-clicking the target icon in an RMS graph or the RMS cluster table. For details on RMS graphs and the RMS cluster table, see "7.3.5 Viewing Detailed RMS Object Information" and "7.3.3 Concurrent Viewing of Node and Cluster Application States."

7.2.2.5 Clearing the Wait State of a Node

The procedure for clearing the Wait state of a node is described below.

Operation Procedure:

  1. Check that the node in the Wait state has been stopped. If not, stop the node manually.

  2. Check that the CF state is DOWN in the CF main window. If the CF state is LEFTCLUSTER, clear LEFTCLUSTER in the CF main window and make sure the node state is changed from LEFTCLUSTER to DOWN.

  3. If the Wait state of the node has not been cleared after performing 2, right-click on the system node in the RMS graph and select the "Clear Wait & shutdown (hvutil -u)" from the menu.

Note

If you clear the Wait state of a system node manually, RMS and CF assume that you have already checked that the target node had stopped.
Therefore, if you clear the Wait state when the node has not been stopped, this may lead to the data corruption.

Information

You can also display the pop-up menu by right-clicking the target icon in an RMS graph or the RMS cluster table. For details on RMS graphs and the RMS cluster table, see "7.3.5 Viewing Detailed RMS Object Information" and "7.3.3 Concurrent Viewing of Node and Cluster Application States."

7.2.2.6 Entering maintenance mode for Cluster Application

The maintenance mode is a specific mode to temporarily restrict a specified cluster application switching.

If a cluster application enters the maintenance mode, the cluster application will not be switched.

Note that because the cluster nodes and resources are monitored even during maintenance mode, the status of the resource is changed when there is a change of the state.

Maintenance mode is only allowed when PRIMECLUSTER products specified.

For using maintenance mode, see "7.3 Using maintenance mode" in "PRIMECLUSTER Reliant Monitor Services (RMS) with Wizard Tools Configuration and Administration Guide."

Note

Please note the following for using maintenance mode.

  • Use maintenance mode to a cluster application of a standby operation containing a resource which the maintenance is necessary.

  • A cluster application of scalable operation does not have to enter the maintenance mode because no resource requires maintenance in the cluster application.

  • To start maintenance mode, a cluster application must be in the Online, Standby, or Offline state.

  • To exit maintenance mode, a cluster application and each resource must be returned in the same state before starting maintenance mode.

  • Do not stop RMS or the system with cluster applications in maintenance mode. Be sure to exit maintenance mode of all cluster applications before stopping RMS or the system.

For using maintenance mode, see "7.3.2 Maintenance mode operating notes" in "PRIMECLUSTER Reliant Monitor Services (RMS) with Wizard Tools Configuration and Administration Guide" and "2.8.1 Restrictions during maintenance mode" in "PRIMECLUSTER Reliant Monitor Services (RMS) Reference Guide."