About Services and Application agents

Services and Application agents make Web sites, applications, and processes highly available.

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

Table: Services and Application agents and their description shows the Services and Applications agents and their description.

Table: Services and Application agents and their description

Agent

Description

Apache

Brings an Apache Server online, takes it offline, and monitors its processes. Use the Apache Web server agent with other agents to make an Apache Web server highly available. This type of resource depends on IP and Mount resources. The Apache agent can detect when an Apache Web server is brought down gracefully by an administrator. When Apache is brought down gracefully, the agent does not trigger a resource fault even though Apache is down.

Application

Brings applications online, takes them offline, and monitors their status. Use the Application agent to specify different executables for the online, offline, and monitor routines for different programs. The executables must exist locally on each node. You can use the Application agent to provide high availability for applications that do not have bundled agents, enterprise agents, or custom agents. This type of resource can depend on IP, IPMultiNIC, and Mount resources. The Application agent supports both IMF-based monitoring and traditional poll-based monitoring.

Process

Starts, stops, and monitors a process that you specify. Use the Process agent to make a process highly available. This type of resource can depend on IP, IPMultiNIC, and Mount resources. The Process agent supports both IMF-based monitoring and traditional poll-based monitoring.

ProcessOnOnly

Starts and monitors a process that you specify. Use the agent to make a process highly available. No child dependencies exist for this resource.

WPAR

Brings workload partitions online, takes them offline, and monitors their status. The WPAR agent supports both IMF-based monitoring and traditional poll-based monitoring.

MemCPUAllocator

Allocates CPU and memory for IBM AIX dedicated partitions.

LPAR

Brings logical partitions (LPARs) online, takes them offline, and monitors their status. The LPAR agent controls the LPAR by contacting the Hardware Management Console (HMC). Communication between HMC and the LPAR running the LPAR agent is through passwordless ssh.

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