Veritas Cluster Server

Introduction Copied

This plug-in allows Geneos users to monitor the Veritas Cluster Server system, specifically information relating to service group and system status, resources used by service groups and the attributes of those resources, and heartbeat links status.

Information is extracted by running a number of Veritas executables and parsing their output.

Views Copied

This plug-in creates 4 separate views.

Service Groups View Copied

This view shows a summary of the service groups running on the system that the plugin runs on. The headline variables show information about the system itself.

Service Groups Headline Legend

Service Groups Table Legend

Resources View Type Copied

For each service group, a resources view will be produced, having details of the resources assigned to that particular service group and attribute values for each resource. By default, only the following attributes will be shown: ConfidenceLevel, IState, Probed, Start, State and Flags. (see section 3.1 on how to use the plugin configuration to modify this list)

The headlines show information about the system and the specific service group.

Resources Headline Legend

Heartbeat Links Status View Copied

This view shows the heartbeat links status for the current system.

Heartbeat Links Headline Legend

Heartbeat Links Table Legend

GAB Port Membership View Copied

This view shows information on GAB port membership.

GAB Port Membership Table Legend

Plug-in Configuration Copied

The following parameters can be configured for this plug-in:

systemName Copied

The name given by veritas to the system or host that the plugin is running on. This is used to filter out information that is not relevant to the current system.

Mandatory: Yes

hastatusCommand Copied

This specifies the path to the Veritas command. This is required if the command name has changed or the command is not in the path accessible to the probe.

Mandatory: No

Default: hastatus

serviceGroupsAndResources Copied

These settings control the service group and resources views.

serviceGroupsAndResources > hagrpCommand Copied

This specifies the path to the Veritas command. This is required if the command name has changed or the command is not in the path accessible to the probe.

Mandatory: No

Default: hagrp

serviceGroupsAndResources > haresCommand Copied

This specifies the path to the Veritas command. This is required if the command name has changed or the command is not in the path accessible to the probe.

Mandatory: No

Default: hares

serviceGroupsAndResources > showAllAttributes Copied

Forces the resource views to show all attributes for the resources, ignoring the default list. The default list is specified in the Resources View Type.

serviceGroupsAndResources > showAllAttributesExceptGlobal Copied

Forces the resource views to show all attributes for the resources (except the global ones), ignoring the default list. The default list is specified in the Resources View Type.

serviceGroupsAndResources > showAttributesFromList Copied

Show the attributes in the default list. The default list is specified in the Resources View Type.

serviceGroupsAndResources > showAttributesFromList > additionalAttributes Copied

This adds these attributes to the default list of attributes that is shown in the resources views. The default list is specified in the Resources View Type.

Mandatory: No

serviceGroupsAndResources > showAttributesFromList > excludeAttributes Copied

This removes the listed attributes from the default list of attributes that is shown in the resources views. The default list is specified in the Resources View Type.

Mandatory: No

heartbeatLinks Copied

These settings control the heartbeat links view.

heartbeatLinks > lltconfigCommand Copied

This specifies the path to the Veritas command. This is required if the command name has changed or the command is not in the path accessible to the probe.

Mandatory: No

Default: lltconfig

heartbeatLinks > lltstatCommand Copied

This specifies the path to the Veritas command. This is required if the command name has changed or the command is not in the path accessible to the probe.

Mandatory: No

Default: lltstat

heartbeatLinks > showOnlyForThisSystem Copied

Forces the heartbeat link status view to only show information relating to the particular system that the plugin is running on.

Mandatory: No

Default: False

gabPortMembership Copied

These settings control the GAB Port Membership view.

gabPortMembership > gabconfigCommand Copied

This specifies the path to the Veritas command. This is required if the command name has changed or the command is not in the path accessible to the probe.

Mandatory: No

Default: gabconfig

Handling Authentication Copied

If the Veritas Cluster Server has authentication enabled on the host, the Veritas Cluster Server plug-in may fail if the netprobe is being run by a on-root user. To enable the VCS plug-in to work in such a scenario, use the halogin command on the host to save the authentication information. With this command, the encrypted information (a .vscpwd file) will be stored in the user’s home directory so that the user will not have to enter credentials every time a VCS command is run. The information is stored until the user ends the session.

The halogin command has the following format:

# halogin -user user@domain -passwrd user_password -domaintype domain_type

Here is an example:

# halogin -user fred@pm.domain.com -passwrd unix_password_for_fred -domaintype unixpwd

Note

The lltconfig and gabconfig commands are not covered by this approach and these commands will need root permissions to run.

Please refer to your Veritas Cluster Server Command Reference Guide for more information.