Specifications
Uninstall
Note: Configuring watchdog may cause some unexpected reboots from time to time. This is the
general nature of how watchdog works. If processes are not responding correctly, the watchdog
feature will assume that LifeKeeper (or the operating system) is hung, and it will reboot the system
(without warning).
Uninstall
Care should be taken when uninstalling LifeKeeper. The above steps should be done in reverse order
as listed below.
WARNING: IF UNINSTALLING LIFEKEEPER BY REMOVING THE RPM PACKAGES THAT
MAKE UP LIFEKEEPER, TURN OFF WATCHDOG FIRST! In Step 2 above, the watchdog config
file was modified to call on the LifeKeeper-watchdog script; therefore, if watchdog is not turned off
first, it will call on that script that is no longer there. An error will occur when this script is not found
which will trigger a reboot. This will continue until watchdog is turned off.
1. Stop watchdog by entering the following command:
/etc/rc.d/init.d/watchdog stop
Confirmation should be received that watchdog has stopped
Stopping watchdog: [OK]
2. Edit the watchdog configuration file (/etc/watchdog.conf) supplied during the installation
of watchdog software.
l Modify test-binary and interval by commenting out those entries (add # at the beginning of
each line):
#test-binary =
#interval =
(Note: If interval was used previously for other functions, it can be left as-is)
3. Uninstall LifeKeeper. See the Removing LifeKeeper topic.
4. Watchdog can now be started again. If only used by LifeKeeper, watchdog can be per-
manently disabled by entering the following command:
chkconfig --levels 35 watchdog off
Resource Policy Management
Overview
Resource Policy Management in Steeleye Protection Suite for Linux and Steeleye vAppKeeper
provides behavior management of resource local recovery and failover (or VMware HA integration).
Resource policies are managed with the lkpolicycommand line tool (CLI).
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