RMS is a mature product with many features and options. Experts who develop, debug, and fine tune complete RMS configurations must know how RMS works and what RMS needs in order to function properly. For each application in the configuration, the expert must do the following:
Define the set of resources used by the application, including:
Disks
Volume managers
File systems
processes to be monitored
IP addresses
Define the relationship between each resource and its dependent resources, e.g., which file system depends on which virtual or physical disk, which processes depend on which file systems, and so forth.
Define the relationship between the applications being controlled; for example, which applications must be up and running before others are allowed to start.
Provide scripts to bring each resource online and offline.
Provide a detector to determine the state of each resource.
Configuring the above set of requirements by hand can be quite time consuming and prone to errors. This is why the RMS Wizard Tools were developed.
The PRIMECLUSTER RMS Wizard Tools allow the creation of flexible and quality-tested RMS configurations while minimizing your involvement. A simple user interface prompts you for details regarding your applications and resources. Using these details, the Wizard Tools automatically select the proper scripts and detectors and combine them in a pre-defined structure to produce a complete RMS configuration.
Specialists skilled in popular applications and in RMS worked together to create the RMS wizards. The wizards are designed to easily configure RMS for certain popular applications such as Oracle and they are flexible enough to create custom RMS configurations that can control any other type of application.
