SteelEye 4.5.0 Table of Contents

Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Document Contents.............................................................................................................3
LifeKeeper Documentation.................................................................................................4
Reference Documents..................................................................................................5
Requirements.............................................................................................................................5
Kit Hardware and Software Requirements..........................................................................5
Configuring SAMS with LifeKeeper.........................................................................................7
Typical LifeKeeper SAMS Environment............................................................................7
Protected Files, Directories and Services............................................................................9
Sendmail Configuration File.............................................................................................10
Masquerading.............................................................................................................10
Port Definition and the SAMS Recovery Kit.............................................................10
Daemon Mode (Red Hat)...........................................................................................10
DNS, Sendmail and LifeKeeper.................................................................................11
Configuration Requirements.............................................................................................11
Active/Standby Scenario..........................................................................................................12
Administering SAMS Applications..................................................................................16
LifeKeeper Configuration Tasks..............................................................................................17
Creating a SAMS Resource Hierarchy..............................................................................18
Deleting a Resource Hierarchy.........................................................................................23
Extending Your Hierarchy................................................................................................25
Unextending Your Hierarchy............................................................................................31
Testing Your Resource Hierarchy.....................................................................................32
Performing a Manual Switchover from the GUI........................................................33
Recovery Operations.........................................................................................................33
Troubleshooting.......................................................................................................................34
Hierarchy Creation Error Messages..................................................................................34
Hierarchy Extend Error Messages.....................................................................................37
Bringing a SAMS Resource In-Service Error Messages...................................................39
Taking a SAMS Resource Out-of-Service Error Messages..............................................40
SAMS Resource Health Monitoring Error Messages.......................................................41
SAMS Local Recovery Error Messages............................................................................41
LifeKeeper for Linux 1