About File share agents

File Service agents make shared directories and subdirectories highly available.

See the Veritas Cluster Server Bundled Agents Reference Guide for a detailed description of these agents.

Table: File share agents and their description shows the File share agents and their description.

Table: File share agents and their description

Agent

Description

NFS

Manages NFS daemons which process requests from NFS clients. The NFS Agent manages the rpc.nfsd/nfsd daemon and the rpc.mountd daemon on the NFS server. If NFSv4 support is enabled, it also manages the rpc.idmapd/nfsmapid daemon. Additionally, the NFS Agent also manages NFS lock and status daemons.

NFSRestart

Provides NFS lock recovery in case of application failover or server crash. The NFSRestart Agent also prevents potential NFS ACK storms by closing all TCP connections of NFS servers with the client before the service group failover occurs.

Share

Shares, unshares, and monitors a single local resource for exporting an NFS file system that is mounted by remote systems. Share resources depend on NFS. In an NFS service group, the IP family of resources depends on Share resources.

SambaServer

Starts, stops, and monitors the smbd process as a daemon. You can use the SambaServer agent to make an smbd daemon highly available or to monitor it. The smbd daemon provides Samba share services. The SambaServer agent, with SambaShare and NetBIOS agents, allows a system running a UNIX or UNIX-like operating system to provide services using the Microsoft network protocol. It has no dependent resource.

SambaShare

Adds, removes, and monitors a share by modifying the specified Samba configuration file. You can use the SambaShare agent to make a Samba Share highly available or to monitor it. SambaShare resources depend on SambaServer, NetBios, and Mount resources.

NetBIOS

Starts, stops, and monitors the nmbd daemon. You can use the NetBIOS agent to make the nmbd daemon highly available or to monitor it. The nmbd process broadcasts the NetBIOS name, or the name by which the Samba server is known in the network. The NetBios resource depends on the IP or the IPMultiNIC resource.