Re: IDS on HACMP
From: Mior@mesiniaga.com.my > >Currently I'm handling IDS 7.3 on R/S 6000 F50 machine. My company want to >upgrade the system for >the purpose of availability. Therefore they wanted to implement High >Availability Clustering Multi >Processor (HACMP) meaning that they will put another server that will share >the same disk with the >current one, but only one server will be active if they opted for hot >standby method. My question is >how do we go about implementing IDS in this environment. Do I need to >install another copy of IDS on >the other machine ? If i do so , do i need the same version and same user >license as on the first >server? How do I configure the IDS/IDSs And what method of operation should >the HACMP be on , hot >standby or mutual takeover. Hoping to hear from you guys. Thanks in >advance. I've never seen the logic of this. Surely the disk is the component of a system mostly to fail? _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
Obnoxio The Clown wrote: > From: Mior@mesiniaga.com.my > > > >Currently I'm handling IDS 7.3 on R/S 6000 F50 machine. My company want to > >upgrade the system for > >the purpose of availability. Therefore they wanted to implement High > >Availability Clustering Multi > >Processor (HACMP) meaning that they will put another server that will share > >the same disk with the > >current one, but only one server will be active if they opted for hot > >standby method. My question is > >how do we go about implementing IDS in this environment. Do I need to > >install another copy of IDS on > >the other machine ? If i do so , do i need the same version and same user > >license as on the first > >server? How do I configure the IDS/IDSs And what method of operation should > >the HACMP be on , hot > >standby or mutual takeover. Hoping to hear from you guys. Thanks in > >advance. > > I've never seen the logic of this. Surely the disk is the component of a > system mostly to fail? > > _________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. > > Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at > http://profiles.msn.com. I didnt see the original post so I will just respond to this one... I have only been involved from the DBA side of this solution, so I am not real familiar with how that side of it works. I believe you can just put the informix directory on the shared disks as well. If one machine goes down, then you can change the IP address swing the disks over to the backup box and bring Informix up. Mail me if you want to talk about this more. As far as the fact that disks fail the most, this is true, but you have mirroring and such to get around that, you lose a different piece of hardware, you might be SOL. Hope this helps, Will