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6.1. Defining a new AAC rule

Figure 6-1. The AAC settings page

Figure 6-2. Defining a new AAC rule

You can specify a service from the standard System V Init services. A list of started services is available in the list box provided. If you cannot see your desired service in the box, make sure the service is installed properly and is configured to start by the System V init in the desired running level. You may specify custom services other than the standard system V Init services. By default, standard service initialization script will be used. Start/Stop/Restart command is pre-configured by the Cluster Configurator. You may also specify custom commands to meet your needs by modify the command in the text boxes.

Name

The name of this service, you can specify any name you want.

Description

The description about this service.

Cycle Time

Cycle time is the interval that the service will be checked in milli seconds. The minimum cycle time allowed is 100 milli seconds.

Application Timeout

If the application does not respond to Cluster Manager after the application timeout, it will assume the application is dead. Different applications may have a different timeout value, it depends how much time does your application need to be restart or query. You should check with your application vendor.

Start/Stop command

Start and stop command of the application service respectively. Start and stop command is mandatory.

Restart command

The restart command is optional which Cluster Manager will automatically use stop and start command for restart in case restart command is missing. It is useful to define a restart command for specific recovery procedures. Since restart command is called when failure is detected.

Automatic Failover

If this option set to 'Yes', the failure of this application will trigger the system to failover. And if set to 'No', won't trigger system failover, but an event will be notified.

Disable

If set to "yes", this AAC rule will be ignored and is not used by Cluster Manager. This may be used for temporary disabling the service without deleting the settings.

Use selected SMA

You may select the appropriate Service Monitoring Agent(SMA) for your application. A list of installed SMAs is available. If you cannot find the appropriate SMA for your application , please contact ShaoLin Microsystems sales devision or your local vendor for purchase information. Please refer to the documentation of your Service Monitoring Agents for detail configuration information.

You should click Save Changes and the AAC rule will be added to the system. You can always edit the defined AAC rule in the Application Availability Control Settings page. Remember you have to reinitialize the cluster after making changes in the AAC settings. You can do this by hit the Reinitalize Clusters button on the AAC main page.