NNMi High Availability Configuration Information

The High Availability (HA) configuration script collects information about the NNMi HA resource group. Please prepare the information listed in the following table before you configure NNMi HA. This information is needed to execute the HA script (nnmhaconfigure.ovpl) interactively, depending on your operating system or HA software.

NNMi HA Primary Node Configuration Information

HA Configuration Item

Description

HA resource group

The name of the resource group for the HA cluster that contains NNMi. This name must be unique, specific to NNMi, and not currently in use. See your HA system provider’s reference material for information on valid names.

Upon input of an HA resource group name, NNMi generates the following resources for Linux and Windows systems:

<resource group name>-IP

<resource group name>-Mount

<resource group name>-App

In addition, for Windows systems, the following resource is generated upon input of a vitual hostname:

<virtual hostname>

Virtual host short name

The short name for the virtual host. This hostname must map to the virtual IP address for the HA resource group. The nslookup command must be able to resolve the virtual host short name and the virtual IP address.

Note If NNMi is unable to resolve the virtual host short name or the virtual host IP address, the HA configuration script could leave the system in an unstable state. Therefore, recommends that you implement a secondary naming strategy (such as entering the information in the %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file on the Windows operating system or /etc/hosts file on UNIX operating systems) in case DNS is not available during NNMi HA configuration.

Virtual host netmask

The subnet mask that is used with the virtual host IP address, which must be an IPv4 address.

Virtual host network interface

The network interface on which the virtual host IP address is running. For example:

  • Windows: Local Area Connection
  • Linux: eth0

Shared file system type

The type of shared disk configuration being used for the HA resource group. Possible values are:

  • disk—The shared disk is a physically attached disk that uses a standard file system type. The HA configuration script can configure the shared disk. For more information, see the File system type entry in this table.
  • none—The shared disk uses a configuration other than that described for the disk option, such as NFS. After running the HA configuration script, configure the shared disk as described in Prepare the Shared Disk Manually in High Availability Environments.

File system type

(Linux only) The file system type of the shared disk (if the shared file system type is disk). The HA configuration scripts pass this value to the HA product so that it can determine how to validate the disk.

has tested the following shared disk formats:

Note HA products support other file system types. If you use a shared disk format that has not tested, prepare the disk before configuring NNMi to run under HA, and then specify none for the shared file system type while running the NNMi HA configuration script.

Disk information (disk group, volume group, and/or logical volume name, depending on the operating system used)

The name associated with the disk information for the NNMi shared file system.

Note When you create/attach a disk on UNIX platforms, for example, with vxfs or lvm, you create different items, such as: disk group, volume group, logical volume. The names for these items are assigned by the system administrator at the time of creation. NNMi does not enforce any naming conventions. Contact your system administrator for your company’s naming information.

Mount point

The directory location for mounting the NNMi shared disk. This mount point must be consistent between systems. (That is, each node must use the same name for the mount point.) For example:

  • Windows: S:\

    Note Specify the drive completely. S and S: are unacceptable formats and do not provide access to the shared disk.

  • Linux: /nnmmount