Verifying the SharePoint cluster configuration
Failover simulation is an important part of configuration testing. To verify the configuration in the cluster, you can take the service groups offline, or manually stop the configured applications on the active cluster node.
You can also simulate a local cluster failover for the SQL databases configured in the VCS SQL Server service group. Refer to the VCS SQL documentation for instructions.
Use Veritas Cluster Manager (Java Console) to perform all the service groups operations.
To take the service groups offline and bring them online
- In the Veritas Cluster Manager (Java Console), click the cluster in the configuration tree, click the Service Groups tab, and right-click the service group icon in the view panel.
Click and then choose the local system.
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In the dialog box, click . The service group you selected is taken offline on the node.
If there is more than one service group, you must repeat this step until all the service groups are offline.
- Verify that the applications and services configured in the service groups are in the stopped state.
- To start all the stopped services, bring all the services groups online on the node.
To manually stop the configured applications and services
- To verify that the SharePoint applications and services are properly configured with VCS, manually stop these components either from the SharePoint Central Administration console or from the IIS Manager.
- From the IIS Manager, in the Connections pane on the left, select a configured Web site and then in the Actions pane on the right, click Stop. The status of the Web Site will show as stopped.
- In the Cluster Manager (Java Console) the corresponding service group resource state may temporarily show as faulted as the SharePoint agent attempts to start the stopped application.
- When the resource comes online, refresh the IIS Manager view to verify that the IIS site is in the started state.
