This guide provides information about configuring IRIS FailSafe™ systems with the IRIS FailSafe WebFORCE® MediaBase option. This option enables a WebFORCE MediaBase server to be failed over from one node to another if a component fails. This guide is intended as a supplement to the information about configuring IRIS FailSafe included in the IRIS FailSafe Administrator's Guide .
This guide was prepared in conjunction with Release 1.2 of the IRIS FailSafe WebFORCE MediaBase option. It describes IRIS FailSafe WebFORCE MediaBase software for WebFORCE MediaBase Release 2.0 running on IRIX™ 6.2 and 6.4. IRIS FailSafe WebFORCE MediaBase cannot be used to fail over WebFORCE MediaBase servers on O2™ workstations.
This guide is written for system administrators who are responsible for configuring and administering an IRIS FailSafe system with the optional IRIS FailSafe WebFORCE MediaBase software. These system administrators must be familiar with the general principles of
configuring disks and logical volumes for Guaranteed-Rate I/O (see the IRIX Admin: Disks and Filesystems guide and the WebFORCE MediaBase Administrator's Guide )
creating XLV logical volumes and XFS™ filesystems (see the IRIX Admin: Disks and Filesystems guide and the WebFORCE MediaBase Administrator's Guide )
configuring and administering IRIS FailSafe clusters (see the IRIS FailSafe Administrator's Guide )
installing and configuring WebFORCE MediaBase (see the WebFORCE MediaBase Administrator's Guide )
This guide contains two chapters and one appendix:
Chapter 1, “Installing and Configuring WebFORCE MediaBase on an IRIS FailSafe Cluster,” describes how to configure an IRIS FailSafe cluster with a WebFORCE MediaBase server as a high-availability service.
Chapter 2, “Configuration File Blocks for WebFORCE MediaBase,” contains reference information for the WebFORCE MediaBase blocks in IRIS FailSafe configuration files.
Appendix A, “Example Configuration File,” contains a complete IRIS FailSafe configuration file for the example configuration of WebFORCE MediaBase described in this guide.
For basic information on creating XLV logical volumes and XFS filesystems see the
For WebFORCE MediaBase administration information, see the WebFORCE MediaBase Administrator's Guide .
Besides this guide, other documentation for the IRIS FailSafe system includes
IRIS FailSafe Administrator's Guide
IRIS FailSafe Programmer's Guide
Release notes are included with each IRIS FailSafe product. The names of the release notes for the base IRIS FailSafe and IRIS FailSafe WebFORCE MediaBase products are as follows:
| ha_base | Release notes for IRIS FailSafe | |
| ha_mbase | Release notes for IRIS FailSafe WebFORCE MediaBase |
These type conventions and symbols are used in this guide:
| Bold | Literal command-line arguments and literal parameter values | |
| Italics | Command names, filenames, new terms, the names of inst subsystems, manual/book titles, variable command-line arguments, and variables to be supplied by the user in examples, code, and syntax statements | |
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| # | IRIX shell prompt for the superuser (root) |