Specifications

Meta Policies
prior to performing a failover. This policy setting can be used to turn on/off local recovery.
l TemporalRecovery- Normally, Steeleye Protection Suitewill perform local recovery of a
failed resource. If local recovery fails, Steeleye Protection Suitewill perform a resource
hierarchy failover to another node (vAppKeeper will trigger VMware HA). If the local recovery
succeeds, failover will not be performed.
There may be cases where the local recovery succeeds, but due to some irregularity in the
server, the local recovery is re-attempted within a short time; resulting in multiple, consecutive
local recovery attempts. This may degrade availability for the affected application.
To prevent this repetitive local recovery/failure cycle, you may set a temporal recovery policy.
The temporal recovery policy allows an administrator to limit the number of local recovery
attempts (successful or not) within a defined time period.
Example: If a user sets the policy definition to limit the resource to three local recovery
attempts in a 30-minute time period, Steeleye Protection Suitewill fail over when a
thirdlocal recovery attempt occurs within the 30-minute period.
Defined temporal recovery policies may be turned on or off. When a temporal recovery policy
is off, temporal recovery processing will continue to be done and notifications will appear in the
log when the policy would have fired; however, no actions will be taken.
Note:It is possible to disable failover and/or local recovery with a temporal recovery policy
also in place. This state is illogical as the temporal recovery policy will neverbe acted upon if
failover or local recovery are disabled.
Meta Policies
The "meta" policies are the ones that can affect more than one other policy at the same time.
These policies are usually used as shortcuts for getting certain system behaviors that would
otherwise require setting multiple standard policies.
l NotificationOnly- This mode allows administrators to put Steeleye Protection Suiteor
vAppKeeperin a "monitoring only" state.Both local recovery and failover of a resource (or
all resources in the case of a server-wide policy) are affected. The user interface will
indicate aFailure state if a failure is detected; but no recovery or failover action will be taken.
Note: The administrator will need tocorrect the problem that caused the failure manuallyand
then bring the affected resource(s) back in service to continue normal Steeleye Protection
Suiteoperations.
Important Considerations for Resource-Level Policies
Resource level policies are policies that apply to a specific resource only, as opposed to an entire
resource hierarchy or server.
Example :
app
- IP
- file system
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