3.7 Configuring Automatic Collection of Switchover Information

Configure automatic switchover information collection settings on the primary and backup sites.

The portion of switchover information which is modified through operations by tenant users or tenant administrators, other than firewall setting information, can be collected automatically.

When configuring automatic failover information collection settings, select either of the following operations, and configure the selected settings.

Operation collecting the information periodically
To start operations for switchover at regular intervals, perform the following operation:
- When performing virtual L-Server switchover (VM guest), and not performing physical L-Server switchover (physical OS)
  [Windows Manager]
  >Installation_folder\SVROR\Manager\bin\rcxmgrexport -interval minutes -base <RETURN>
  [Linux Manager]
  # /opt/FJSVrcvmr/bin/rcxmgrexport -interval minutes -base <RETURN>
  For details on the rcxmgrexport command, refer to "B.1 rcxmgrexport".
- In other cases
  [Windows Manager]
  >Installation_folder\SVROR\Manager\bin\rcxmgrexport -interval minutes <RETURN>
  [Linux Manager]
  1. Execute the following command:
    # /opt/FJSVrcvmr/bin/rcxmgrexport -interval minutes <RETURN>
    When the replication software to use is ACM-CCM or snapmirror, the procedure after this point is not required.
  2. When the Resource Orchestrator manager and the replication software are installed on the same server
    Add the following path to the start of the "/etc/cron.d/SVROR_rcxmgrexportwrapper" file depending on the type of replication software that will be used.
    - NaviSphere
    PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/opt/Navisphere/bin
    - Solutions Enabler
    PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/symcli/bin
    After adding the paths, it is not necessary to restart the OS or cron services.
    It is necessary to add the paths described above every time the rcxmgrexport -interval command is executed.
  For details on the rcxmgrexport command, refer to "B.1 rcxmgrexport".
Operation collecting the configuration definition information after changes are made
Configuration definition information will be collected automatically upon the occurrence of events causing a change of switchover information. Perform the operations described below.
For details on the timing of automatic information collection, refer to "B.1 rcxmgrexport".
- When performing virtual L-Server switchover (VM guest), and not performing physical L-Server switchover (physical OS)
  [Windows Manager]
  >Installation_folder\SVROR\Manager\bin\rcxmgrexport -event on -base <RETURN>
  [Linux Manager]
  # /opt/FJSVrcvmr/bin/rcxmgrexport -event on -base <RETURN>
  For details on the rcxmgrexport command, refer to "B.1 rcxmgrexport".
- In other cases
  [Windows Manager]
  >Installation_folder\SVROR\Manager\bin\rcxmgrexport -event on <RETURN>
  [Linux Manager]
  # /opt/FJSVrcvmr/bin/rcxmgrexport -event on <RETURN>
  For details on the rcxmgrexport command, refer to "B.1 rcxmgrexport".

Note

When collecting the switchover information using Disaster Recovery, the information for the entire system is collected. When collecting the information in environments with a high frequency of update, or with short time intervals configured, normal operations may be affected. Review the operation method, considering the impact on business.
There is information necessary for disaster recovery switchover that is not collected by the automatic collection performed by "3.7 Configuring Automatic Collection of Switchover Information". Perform the operation described in "4.1 Normal Operation" to manually collect this failover information.
Even when performing physical L-Server switchover (physical OSs), for configurations that do not replicate LUNs that are connected with the L-Servers, use the rcxmgrexport -event on -base command.
(Configuration example: The LUN connected with an L-Server is copied to another LUN using One Point Copy to be replicated)
Switchover information is not collected automatically at the timing when setting operations for collecting information regularly or for collecting in case the configuration definition information is changed is enabled. To collect information at the timing when the setting is enabled, execute the rcxmgrexport command manually.