Administration Guide

Monitoring HACMP Clusters

There are scripts provided for creating SP problem management (pman) events to monitor the DB2 HACMP ES configuration, in addition to those monitoring utilities already present in HACMP ES. To monitor HACMP status form the SP control workstation, do the following:

• Install the HACMP client code on the control workstation.

• Edit the /usr/sbin/cluster/etc/clhosts file and include the SP ethernet IP addresses of the nodes you wish to monitor.

• Use the command startsrc -s clinfo to start monitoring the clusters.

HACMP supplies an interface for monitoring the clusters: /usr/sbin/cluster/clstat.

To use the problem management monitoring with SP Perspectives GUI for HACMP RS and user-defined events:

1. Use create_db2_events <nodelist> where <nodelist> is a pcp or pexec style of nodes and where the events are to be monitored. create_db2_events creates five (5) pman events for monitoring by Perspectives.

   Note:

   The Resource Variables PSSP.pm.User_state12-16 are used in the creation of these events. If these resource variables are already being used for some other purpose, create_db2_events and update_db2_events must be updated to use different resource variables.

2. Start Perspectives on the control workstation. From the launch pad, choose the event Perspective. You should see five (5) events: db2_hacmp_recovery, db2_process_recovery, db2_paging_err, db2_nfs_err, and Errlog_PERM_entry.

3. Double-click on each event. On the screen that appears, you need to register (within the Definition Table) a condition for the event. Click next to the down arrow by Name: "unnamed", and select the same name as the event you specify as the condition. Select the "Response Options" tab. Click on the button on the top of the display ("Send Message to Perspectives event session"). If you desire, you can specify commands, Errlog entries, as well as SNMP traps for these event occurrences. The event log displays are maintained only across Perspective sessions; therefore, you might want to create AIX error log entries for each. Hit the "OK" Button, and close the window.

4. Next, go back to the Perspectives launch pad. Select the hardware Perspective.

5. When the Hardware frame GUI appears, select at the top of the menu "View" and then "Monitor". You are then provided with a list of events that can be monitored for your SP. Scrolling to the bottom of the list, you will find two additional events: one for HACMP DB2 recovery (db2_ha_ind), and the other for SP node PERM errors (Errlog_PERM_mon. Select those you wish to monitor. (When an event occurs for a node, it will receive a red "X" in its display. If all monitored conditions are "OK", the display for the node is green.) Typically, host_responds, switch_responds, and node_power_LED are used. You can also monitor the DB2 HACMP recovery as well as PERM errors on the node.

   haind:2:wait:/usr/bin/db2_update_events HAIND OFF 2>&1 >/dev/null

If you are planning on using NetView for your implementation, consider using HAVIEW (which is part of HACMP) for monitoring your configuration. Please use NetView documentation for information on configuring that product.

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