Veritas Cluster Server Bundled Agents Reference Guide

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Introducing VCS bundled agents
Which agents should I use?
You can use the following agents to test VCS functionality:
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ElifNone Agent—Monitors a file.
FileNone Agent—Monitors a file.
FileOnOff Agent—Creates a file, monitors it, and deletes it.
FileOnOnly Agent—Creates and monitors a file.
Which agents should I use?
The information in the table enables you to decide which agent to use depending
on the resource you want to make highly available.
Table 1-3
Resources and corresponding VCS agents
Resource to Make Highly Available
Shared Storage
Manage disks and volumes.
Agents to Use
In case of SFW, use VMDg and MountV.
In case of LDM, use DiskRes and Mount.
In case of a disaster recovery environment,
use VVRSnap agent.
See “VVRSnap agent” on page 41.
In case vMotion and VMware Distributed
Resource Scheduler (DRS) need to be enabled
in VCS clusters configured and deployed on
virtual machines in VMware environment,
use the VMwareDisks, VMNSDg, and
NativeDisks agents.
See “VMwareDisks agent” on page 43.
See “VMNSDg agent” on page 46.
See “NativeDisks agent” on page 49.
In case of a NetApp storage environment,
use NetAppFiler and NetAppSnapDrive.
In case you want to monitor replication state
of filer devices, use NetApp SnapMirror.
IP address
NIC, IP, or IPv6
Adapter and the associated IP address
Computer name (virtual name)
File shares
Lanman
Fileshare or CompositeFileShare