I know all about HACMP on AIX, unfortunately, Netview is on a SUN
platform...
DOH !
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Steve deSouza wrote:
> We want to get some sort of backup mechanism where if the primary nv
> server goes down, the secondary will kick in.
You can do this if you are running your servers on AIX. AIX has a
component
called HACMP that will allow you to define resources (like IP addresses,
and
filesystems) that fail over to a backup machine. You will have to run a
custom takeover script when the machine fails over, but it is doable.
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