Launching the Veritas High Availability Configuration wizard
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Launching the Veritas High Availability Configuration wizard

In a physical Linux environment, VMware virtual environment, logical domain, or LPAR, you can launch the Veritas High Availability Configuration wizard using:

In addition, in a Linux environment, you can also launch the wizard using:

In addition, in a VMware virtual environment, you can also launch the wizard using:

To launch the wizard from the Client

  1. Log in to the Management Server console.
  2. In the home page, click the Availability icon from the list of perspectives.
  3. In the Data Center tree under the Manage pane, locate the cluster.
  4. Navigate to the Systems object under the cluster.
  5. Locate the system on which the application is running or application prerequisites are met.
  6. Right-click on the system, and then click Configure Application.

To launch the wizard from a browser window

  1. Open a browser window and enter the following URL:

    https://system_name_or_IP:5634/vcs/admin/application_health.html

    system_name_or_IP is the system name or IP address of the system on which you want to configure application monitoring.

  2. In the Authentication dialog box, enter the username and password of the user who has administrative privileges.
  3. Depending on your setup, use one of the following options to launch the wizard:

    • If you have not configured a cluster, click the Configure a VCS Cluster link.

    • If you have already configured a cluster, click Actions > Configure Application for High Availability or the Configure Application for High Availability link.

    • If you have already configured a cluster and configured an application for monitoring, click Actions > Configure Application for High Availability.

Note:

In the Storage Foundation and High Availability (SFHA) 6.2 release and later, the haappwizard utility has been deprecated.

To launch the wizard using the haappwizard utility

The haappwizard utility allows you to launch the Veritas High Availability Configuration wizard. The utility is part of the product package and is installed in the /opt/VRTSvcs/bin directory.

The following table describes the options of the happwizard utility:

Table: Options of the happwizard utility

- hostname

Allows you to specify the host name or IP address of the system from which you want to launch the Veritas High Availability Configuration wizard. If you do not specify a host name or IP address, the Veritas High Availability Configuration wizard is launched on the local host.

-browser

Allows you to specify the browser name. The supported browsers are Internet Explorer and Firefox. For example, enter iexplore for Internet Explorer and firefox for Firefox.

Note:

The value is case-insensitive.

-help

Displays the command usage.

To launch the wizard from the VMware vSphere Client

  1. Launch the VMware vSphere Client and connect to the VMware vCenter Server that hosts the virtual machine.
  2. From the vSphere Client's Inventory view in the left pane, select the virtual machine where you want to configure application monitoring.
  3. Skip this step if you have already configured single sign-on during guest installation.

    Select the Veritas High Availability tab and in the Veritas High Availability View page, specify the credentials of a user account that has administrative privileges on the virtual machine and click Configure.

    The Veritas High Availability console sets up a permanent authentication for the user account on that virtual machine.

  4. Depending on your setup, use one of the following options to launch the wizard:

    • If you have not configured a cluster, click the Configure a VCS Cluster link.

    • If you have already configured a cluster, click Actions > Configure Application for High Availability or the Configure Application for High Availability link.

    • If you have already configured a cluster and configured an application for monitoring and to configure another application for monitoring, click Actions > Configure Application for High Availability.

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