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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Ha mailserver, is possible active/active with "constant" connection? Post 303045628 by hicksd8 on Saturday 4th of April 2020 02:09:53 PM

04-04-2020

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You problem is with network timeout settings; either the cluster or the clients.

Manually shutting down one of the cluster nodes may not give you the same result as a true CPU/power/whatever failure because the cluster software suite will probably see you do that. It would be better to simply pull out the RJ45 network connection to one of them simulating a network connection failure.

Anyway, the point is that a cluster failover takes time. During this time the virtual ip address is switched from one node to the other. Depending on the cluster suite this will take seconds/minutes. The fact that the client will reconnect to the surviving cluster node after you restart it proves that, had it waited long enough, it would have been able to reconnect on its own.

So the solution is to either (1) configure the cluster to failover faster, or (2) increase the timeout that clients will wait before giving up. That means that a new connection to the virtual ip address can be made before the configured timeout period ends.

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cmrunnode

cmrunnode(1m)															     cmrunnode(1m)

NAME

       cmrunnode - run a node in a high availability cluster

SYNOPSIS

       cmrunnode [-v] [node_name...]  [-t | -w none]

DESCRIPTION

       cmrunnode  causes  a node to start its cluster daemon to join the existing cluster.  This command verifies the network configuration before
       causing the node to start its cluster daemon.

       To start a cluster on one of its nodes, a user must either be superuser(UID=0), or have an access policy of FULL_ADMIN allowed in the clus-
       ter configuration file. See access policy in cmquerycl(1m).

       Starting  a node will not cause any active packages to be moved to the new node.  However, if a package is DOWN, has its switching enabled,
       and is able to run on the new node, that package will automatically run there.

       If node_name is not specified, the cluster daemon will be started on the local node and will join the existing cluster.

   Options
       cmrunnode supports the following options:

	      -v   Verbose output will be displayed.

	      -t   Test only. Provide an assessment of the package placement without affecting the current state of the nodes or packages. The	-w
		   option is not required with the -t option as -t does not validate network connectivity, but assumes that all the nodes can meet
		   any external dependencies such as EMS resources, package subnets, and storage.

	      node_name...
		   Start the cluster daemon on the specified node(s).

	      -w none
		   By default network probing is performed to check that the network connectivity is the same as when the cluster was  configured.
		   Any	anomalies are reported before the cluster daemons are started. The -w none option disables this probing. The option should
		   only be used if this network configuration is known to be correct from a recent check.

RETURN VALUE

       cmrunnode returns the following value:

	       0   Successful completion.
	       1   Command failed.

EXAMPLES

       Run the cluster daemon on the current node:

	      cmrunnode

       Run the cluster daemons on node1 and node2:

	      cmrunnode node1 node2

AUTHOR

       cmrunnode was developed by HP.

SEE ALSO

       cmquerycl(1m), cmhaltcl(1m), cmhaltnode(1m), cmruncl(1m), cmviewcl(1m), cmeval(1m).

						      Requires Optional Serviceguard Software					     cmrunnode(1m)