Agent functions
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Agent functions

• Online
  • Terminates statd and lockd.
  • For all NFSLock resources, copies the locks from the shared storage to the /var/statmon/sm directory if NFSLockFailover is set to 1.
  • Starts the statd and lockd daemons.
  • Starts the smsyncd daemon to copy the contents of /var/statmon/sm directory to the shared storage (LocksPathName) at regular, two-second intervals.
• Monitor

  Monitors the statd and lockd daemons and restarts them if they are not running. It also monitors the smsyncd daemon.

• Offline
  • Terminates the statd and lockd daemons to clear the lock state.
  • Terminates the nfsd and mountd daemons to close the TCP/IP connections.
  • Terminates the smsyncd daemon.

• Clean
  • Terminates the statd and lockd daemons to clear the lock state.
  • Terminates the nfsd and mountd daemons to close TCP/IP connections.
  • Terminates the smsyncd daemon.
• nfs_postoffline
  • Restarts nfsd, mountd, lockd, statd, and nfsmapid after the group goes offline.