High Availability FailOver/iX Manual (32650-90911)

Preface
This manual documents the High Availability FailOver/iX (HAFO) utilities for
the HP e3000 systems.
Each chapter of this manual is described briefly.
Chapter 1, "Introductions." Contains a brief description of the HAFO utility
concept.
Chapter 2, "Product Description." Describes how a failover works, including
the triggers and a generalized sequence of events after a failover. Each of the
four major components is listed and described.
Chapter 3, "Installations." Explains how the installation of the HAFO utilities
occurs.
Chapter 4, "Configuration." Provides some general information necessary to
determine how best to implement the HAFO utilities and its hardware
requirements. A configuration checklist is provided to help gather the necessary
information needed for HAFO configuration. This chapter documents how to
access the configuration commands. An overview of configuration steps is
provided, along with detailed command descriptions and syntaxes.
Chapter 5, "Monitoring Status." Explains how to generate and interpret the
failover status report. Each possible primary path status is listed and described.
Sample reports are provided.
Chapter 6, "Recovering From a Failover." Describes the failover state,
describes each failover status, and notes general repair recommendations.
Instructions are provided to return the I/O data flow to the primary data path.
Chapter 7, "Quick Start Instructions." Presents short and concise steps for
configuring HAFO.
Appendix A, "Sample Failover and Recovery." Presents a sample failover
scenario, troubleshooting, and recovery.
Appendix B, " Error Messages." Lists HAFO error messages, their causes and
suggested actions.
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