HP CIFS Server 2.2i Administrator's Guide version A.01.11.01

Conﬁguring HA HP CIFS

Conﬁgure a Highly Available HP CIFS Server

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1. Set the PACKAGE_NAME variable.

PACKAGE_NAME Sambapkg

2. Create a NODE_NAME variable for each node that will be running

the package. The ﬁrst NODE_NAME variable should specify the

primary node. All other NODE_NAME variables should specify

alternate nodes in the order in which they are to be tried.

NODE_NAME node1

NODE_NAME node2

3. Set the RUN_SCRIPT and HALT_SCRIPT variables to the full path

name of the control script.

RUN_SCRIPT /etc/cmcluster/samba/samba.cntl

RUN_SCRIPT_TIMEOUT NO_TIMEOUT

HALT_SCRIPT /etc/cmcluster/samba/samba.cntl

HALT_SCRIPT_TIMEOUT NO_TIMEOUT

4. Set the SERVICE_NAME variable to samba_mon.

SERVICE_NAME samba_mon

SERVICE_FAIL_FAST_ENABLED NO

SERVICE_HALT_TIMEOUT 300

5. Set the SUBNET variable to the subnet that will be monitored for

the package, as in the following example:

SUBNET 15.13.2.0

6. The following initialization settings will cause a package failover to

occur if there is a node or network failure, even if the HP CIFS

Server monitor script is not being used.

PKG_SWITCHING_ENABLED YES

NET_SWITCHING_ENABLED YES

7. If the NODE_FAIL_FAST_ENABLE variable is set to NO, the node

is not brought down when the package goes down.

NODE_FAIL_FAST_ENABLED NO

Edit the samba.cntl Control Script

To conﬁgure the samba.cntl Control Script ﬁle, you must complete the

following tasks:

1. Create a volume group for the HP CIFS Server directories:

VG[0]=/dev/vgsamba