About Storage agents

Storage agents monitor shared storage and make shared storage highly available. Storage includes shared disks, disk groups, volumes, and mounts.

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

Table: Storage agents and their description shows Storage agents and their description.

Table: Storage agents and their description

Agent

Description

DiskGroup

Brings Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) disk groups online and offline, monitors them, and make them highly available.

No dependencies exist for the DiskGroup resource.

DiskGroupSnap

Brings resources online and offline and monitors disk groups used for fire drill testing. The DiskGroupSnap agent enables you to verify the configuration integrity and data integrity in a Campus Cluster environment with VxVM stretch mirroring. The service group that contains the DiskGroupSnap agent resource has an offline local dependency on the application's service group. This is to ensure that the fire drill service group and the application service group are not online at the same site.

Volume

Makes Veritas Volume Manager(VxVM) Volumes highly available and enables you to bring the volumes online and offline, and monitor them. Volume resources depend on DiskGroup resources.

VolumeSet

Brings Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) volume sets online and offline, and monitors them. Use the VolumeSet agent to make a volume set highly available. VolumeSet resources depend on DiskGroup resources.

LVMVG

Activates, deactivates, and monitors a Logical Volume Manager (LVM) volume group. The LVMVG agent supports JFS or JFS2. It does not support VxFS. This agent ensures that the Object Data Manager (ODM) is synchronized with changes to the volume group. No dependencies exist for the LVMVG resource.

Mount

Brings resources online and offline, monitors file system or NFS client mount points, and make them highly available. The Mount agent can be used with the DiskGroup, LVMVG, and Volume agents to provide storage to an application. The Mount agent supports both IMF-based monitoring and traditional poll-based monitoring.

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