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Veritas Cluster Management Console

Veritas Cluster Management Console is a high availability management solution that enables monitoring and administering Storage Foundation clusters from a single web console.

You can configure Cluster Management Console to manage a single cluster, multiple clusters, or both.

• If you want to use Cluster Management Console to manage multiple clusters, you must set up a management server.
• If you want to use the Cluster Management Console to manage a single cluster, choose the option to install the Cluster Management Console during Storage Foundation installation and configuration.

   

  Operational mode	Configurational description
  Local management of one cluster (single-cluster mode)	The Cluster Management Console is installed along with Storage Foundation on each node in the cluster and is configured for failover. It is integrated with Storage Foundation as part of the ClusterService service group. The Cluster Management Console offers robust cluster management capability and can be run from any supported Web browser on any system.   See Configuring the Cluster Management Console
  Centralized, comprehensive, enterprise-wide administration of multiple clusters (multi-cluster mode)	One instance of the Cluster Management Console is installed outside all clusters on a standalone server. The console enables users to visually and intuitively input commands to the multi-cluster management engine, the management server. The management server initiates monitoring and management actions based upon those commands. The management server uses a database to store cluster configurations, cluster status, events, event policies, report jobs, report outputs, and more.  See Installing the management server for the Veritas Cluster Management Console  If the management server and cluster nodes are separated by a firewall, a component called cluster connector is installed on each cluster node. Cluster connector enables communication with clusters through firewalls. Cluster connector also provides buffering for cluster data. If the console goes offline and then comes back online, it can retrieve data collected during the offline period from the cluster connector buffer.  See Configuring cluster connector The console offers additional capability for administering users, reports, events, and notification. If the cluster environment includes licensed VCS global clusters, disaster recovery (DR) capability is also available.

The configurational differences between the operational modes mean that you cannot switch a single Cluster Management Console installation from one mode to the other. The modes are also incompatible on the same system. Consequently, one system cannot offer both operational modes. However, the modes can co-exist in the same multi-cluster environment, with single-cluster-mode installations on Storage Foundation cluster nodes, and multi-cluster-mode installations on management server hosts. Such a deployment can be desirable if different IT administrators in your enterprise have different scopes of responsibility.

See Veritas Cluster Server Centralized Management Guide for more information.

Sample deployment for Veritas Cluster Management Console

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