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SavWareHA automatically inserts the following manual pages into the ‘man’ system. Enter ‘man <command>‘ to see these entries on-line.


sentinel
/etc/sentinel

The sentinel program provides a menu or command line driven administration facility for SavWareHA.

Options

-d Download config information to mirror driver
   
-b Build a Mirror
   
-r Re-Build a Mirror
   
-m # Specify the mirror number for other commands
   
-f opt Specify filename of mirror config info
   
-k Stop DMX Mirror Daemon
   
-p Start DMX Mirror Daemon
   
-F Fix a mirror if easily fixable
   
-G Fix a mirror (Requires -m)
   
-S opt Show the size of a device
   
-a Add a "Master Only" Mirror
   
-R Remove a "Master Only" Mirror
   
-s0 Turn off mirror Master Element (Requires -m)
   
-s1 Turn off mirror Slave Element (Requires -m)
   
-Q Query status of mirror (optional -m)
   
-M1 Mode change to fallback
   
-M2 Mode change to normal
   
-u dev Check if a device is currently in use
   
-K Create kernel space files
   
-z1 Special option to allow reverse regeneration
   
-v verbose

 
sentinel.sh

/etc/sentinel.sh

Provide shell services for smon and SavWareHA programs

Options

-r Report role of current machine
   
-m Report current SavWareHA mode
   
-s mode Force a switch to a different mode
   
-Smode Start a switch on this machine only (used by -s)
   
-l Display log file
   
-M Mount SavWareHA filesystems
   
-U Unmount SavWareHA filesystems
   
-i Execute bootup code
   
-b Mirror configuration support
   
-d Mirror unconfiguration support
   
-L dev Make a lost+found directory
   
-I Copy basic config files to standby
   
-N Process data link failure notification
   
-F Process monitor link failure notification

 
smon

/etc/smon

Monitor the system of the Primary System and cause an automatic switch to fallback mode on a failure:

Options

-s Run as a server
   
-D Send a message to the Standby System
   
-P Send a message to the Primary System
   
-d Display monitor information and status
   
-k Kill any smon processes that are running
   
-t Start serial servers
   
-n srv Change service name to srv (default is smon)
   
-x Run in verbose mode
   
-a Change global time-out value
   
-F Do not fork on startup


netdsk

/etc/netdsk

Provide disk driver access over a network.

Options

-k Stop running daemons
   
-dp Operate as a client
   
-F Do not fork on startup
   
-m num Set ndsk number
   
-s service Change default service name
   
-B Set TCP receive buffer size
   
-T Set TCP transmit buffer size
   
-M sys:dev Check if this is a valid device
   
-o file Write output to a file
   
-n sys:dev Give ndsk?? Name
   
-N ndsk?? Give sys:dev Name
   
-v Verbose
   
-W size Set lli window size
   
-D /dev/ndsk?? Check mode of link
   
   


sntlmail

/etc/sentinel.d/sntlmail [-ic]

When invoked without any options, checks the status of all defined mirrors and mails messages to a list of administrators if all mirrors are not completely ACTIVE or GOOD.

Administrators are listed in the file /etc/sentinel.d/administrators

Administrators can be at a remote location if the E-mail facility is configured for remote mail.

Messages will be mailed once when a problem occurs. If the problem is not resolved within 4 days, 2 repeated messages will be mailed per day until the problem is resolved or the message is cleared.

Options

-i Initialize the sntlmail program by creating an entry in crontab if one does not already exist and creating the administrators file if necessary.
   
-c Clear any pending message
 
         
         
 

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