This guide explains how to write your own plug-in, the set of scripts that are required to turn an application into a highly available service in conjunction with IRIS FailSafe 2.1.6 software.
This guide assumes that the FailSafe system has been configured as described in the FailSafe Administrator's Guide for SGI InfiniteStorage.
This guide supports IRIX 6.5.22 and later.
This guide is written for system programmers who are writing their own plug-ins for the FailSafe system. This software allows the failover of applications that are not handled by the base and optional plug-ins. Readers must be familiar with the operation and administration of nodes running FailSafe, with the applications that are to be failed over, and with the FailSafe Administrator's Guide for SGI InfiniteStorage.
The following documentation is of interest:
FailSafe Administrator's Guide for SGI InfiniteStorage
CXFS Administration Guide for SGI Infinite Storage
Migrating from IRIS FailSafe 1.2 to IRIS FailSafe 2.1.X
The man pages are as follows:
cdbBackup
cdbRestore
cmgr
crsd
failsafe
fs2d
ha_cilog
ha_cmsd
ha_cxfs
ha_exec2
ha_fsd
ha_gcd
ha_ifd
ha_ifdadmin
ha_macconfig2
ha_srmd
ha_statd2
haStatus
Release notes are included with each FailSafe product. The names of the release notes are as follows:
Release Note | Product |
|---|---|
cluster_admin | Cluster administration services |
cluster_control | Cluster node control services |
cluster_services | Cluster services |
failsafe2 | IRIS 2.x FailSafe |
failsafe2_informix | FailSafe Informix |
failsafe2_nfs | FailSafe NFS |
failsafe2_oracle | FailSafe Oracle |
failsafe2_samba | FailSafe Samba |
failsafe2_web | FailSafe Netscape web |
These type conventions and symbols are used in this guide:
| Bold | Function names literal command-line arguments (options/flags) | |
| Bold fixed-width type | Commands and text that you are to type literally in response to shell and command prompts, or highlighting of differences between releases | |
| Italics | New terms, manual/book titles, commands, variable command-line arguments, filenames, and variables to be supplied by the user in examples, code, and syntax statements | |
| Fixed-width type | Code examples, error messages, prompts, and screen text | |
| # | IRIX shell prompt for the superuser (root) |
You can obtain SGI documentation as follows:
See the SGI Technical Publications Library at http://docs.sgi.com. Various formats are available. This library contains the most recent and most comprehensive set of online books, release notes, man pages, and other information.
If it is installed on your SGI system, you can use InfoSearch, an online tool that provides a more limited set of online books, release notes, and man pages. With an IRIX system, enter infosearch at a command line or select Help -> InfoSearch from the Toolchest.
On IRIX systems, you can view release notes by entering either grelnotes or relnotes at a command line.
On Linux systems, you can view release notes on your system by accessing the README.txt file for the product. This is usually located in the /usr/share/doc/productname directory, although file locations may vary.
You can view man pages by typing man title at a command line.
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