User Guide

322 Chapter 14 ClusterCATS Utilities
Using btadmin
btadmin is a scriptable utility installed on each server in cluster. It provides most of
the functionality of the Windows-based ClusterCATS Server Administrator so that
UNIX and Windows administrators can include calls in automated scripts.
This section describes the following:
• “Using btadmin on UNIX” on page 322
• “Using btadmin on Windows” on page 324
Using btadmin on UNIX
The btadmin utility on UNIX is a shell script invoked from the
<
CC_install_directory>/ directory. If you are running btadmin on Red Hat Linux,
the ksh shell must be installed.
The syntax for btadmin is:
btadmin [start | stop | restart <daemon>]
btadmin [enable | disable | add | delete | config <option><instance>]
btadmin [show | reset | help]
The following sections describes each of these options.
[start | stop | restart <daemon>]
You can start, stop, and restart the following daemons with btadmin:
Note
Stopping and starting some daemons may result in multiple daemons being stopped
or started.
Following are examples of how you start and stop daemons with the
btadmin utility:
btadmin start appmgr
btadmin stop failover
btadmin restart ns-httpd
[enable | disable | add | delete |
config <option> _ <Web_server_instance>]
Daemon Description
ccmgr Application manager daemon.
dfp Cisco LocalDirector’s Dynamic Feedback Protocol daemon.
failover The failover daemon.
ipaliasd The ClusterCATS failover daemon.
ns-httpd The HTTP daemon.
wsprobe Web server probe daemon.