Before you configure an application for monitoring, you must configure a cluster. Refer to the VCS Installation Guide for the steps to configure a cluster.
To configure a generic application for monitoring by using the Veritas High Availability Configuration Wizard:
The component you added appears in the Component box.
Start program: The complete path of the start program script.
Stop program: The complete path of the stop program script.
Force-stop program: The complete path of the program script to forcefully stop the application.
At least one or more of the following:
Enable intelligent monitoring for this application: Select or clear this option to enable or disable intelligent monitoring for the application component. This option is selected by default. Veritas recommends that you enable intelligent monitoring of the application component.
For more information about intelligent monitoring, refer to the Application agent section in the VCS Bundled Agents Reference Guide.
User: The user name. This user name is used to run all the agent scripts. Ensure that you specify a valid user with adequate privileges on the physical machine, virtual machine, logical domain, or LPAR where you configure the application. Else, application monitoring may fail.
To remove a component from the Component box, use the Remove icon.
On the Define Start-Stop Order panel, to define the dependency between the components, select an application component from the Parent Component box and then select the components that it depends on from the Depends on box. When starting the application, the components are brought online in the defined order.
Click Next.
On the Configuration Inputs panel, use the Edit icon to specify the user name and password of the systems for the VCS cluster operations.
To add a system to the cluster, on the Configuration Inputs panel, click Add System. In the Add System dialog box, specify the following details of the system that you want to add to the VCS cluster and click OK:
The wizard validates the details, and the system then appears in the Cluster Systems list.
To remove a system from the cluster or from the Application failover targets list, use the Remove icon.
On the Virtual Network Details panel, select the IP network (IPV4 or IPv6). The IPv4 protocol is selected by default.
Select the appropriate component and specify the following details for each failover system:
If you want to add another virtual IP address, click Add virtual IP address.
Click Next.
If you selected mount points for your application in step 7, the Storage HA Inputs panel appears.
On the Storage HA Inputs panel, specify all the ESX/ESXi hosts to which virtual machines can fail over. Each ESX/ESXi host must be able to access the required shared datastores that contain visible disks.
To specify the ESX/ESXi hosts, click Add ESX/ESXi Host and in the Add ESX/ESXi Host dialog box, specify the following details and click OK:
The wizard validates the user account and the storage details on the specified ESX/ESXi hosts.
If you want to remove an ESX/ESXi host, use the Remove icon.
Click Next.
If you want to rename the service group, click the Rename link and edit the service group name in the Rename service group name dialog box.
Configures the application for monitoring
In a VMware environment, creates cluster communication links
After all the tasks are complete, click Next.
If a configuration task fails, click Diagnostic information to check the details of the failure. Rectify the cause of the failure and run the wizard again to configure application monitoring.
This completes the application monitoring configuration.