About the HostMonitor daemon

VCS also starts HostMonitor daemon when the VCS engine comes up. The VCS engine creates a VCS resource VCShm of type HostMonitor and a VCShmg service group. The VCS engine does not add these objects to the main.cf file. Do not modify or delete these VCS components. VCS uses the HostMonitor daemon to monitor the resource utilization of CPU and Swap. VCS reports to the engine log if the resources cross the threshold limits that are defined for the resources.

VCS deletes user-defined VCS objects that use the HostMonitor object names. If you had defined the following objects in the main.cf file using the reserved words for the HostMonitor daemon, then VCS deletes these objects when the VCS engine starts:

See VCS keywords and reserved words.

You can control the behavior of the HostMonitor daemon using the HostMonLogLvl attribute.

See Cluster attributes.