Show them the contents of Appendix A.3 in the NetView 5.1 Release notes. There
is more to NetView in an HA environment than just where the /usr/OV filesystem
is mounted.
James Shanks
Tivoli (NetView for UNIX) L3 Support
"Ferreira, Linda" <FerreiraL@NABISCO.COM> on 02/17/2000 01:10:35 PM
Please respond to Discussion of IBM NetView and POLYCENTER Manager on NetView
<NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU>
To: NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU
cc: (bcc: James Shanks/Tivoli Systems)
Subject: Re: Implementing Netview on HA
Chris,
I will look into Chapter 6 on Backup Managers. Unfortunately, I don't know
too much about HA myself, but we are an HA shop and we have some "experts"
which have implemented HA on other applications but unfortunaltely they
don't know Netview. Their question for me was "Is Netview HA'able?"
meaning, could it reside somewhere other than rootvg, if so, it could be
done. All they need to know is whether or not Netview can be installed on
a seperate logical volume (not part of the operating system) Can you answer
that question for me being that you have implemented it for your customer?
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Cowan [SMTP:chris.cowan@2ND-WAVE.COM]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2000 11:43 AM
> To: NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU
> Subject: Re: Implementing Netview on HA
>
> "Ferreira, Linda" wrote:
> >
> > Has anyone implemented Netview successfully on an HA (high availability)
> > platform? Particularly Netview 5.1.1 .
> > Any thoughts, suggestions, comments would be greatly appreciated
> >
>
> Yes, I've done it because a customer insisted.
>
> Having said that, I would never architect an HA configuration for
> Netview. If you're going to buy multiple machines, you're much better
> off using multiple managers in a Backup Manager configuration. (It's
> described in Chapter 6 of the Netview Admin guide).
>
> Backup Managers give you load balancing, along with more flexibility in
> terms of topology, and better fault resilience. << File: Card for Chris
> Cowan >>
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