Specifications

General Tab
l Administrator - the user can perform any LifeKeeper task.
l Operator - the user can monitor LifeKeeper resource and server status, and can bring
resources in service and take them out of service.
l Guest - the user can monitor LifeKeeper resource and server status.
l Shutdown Strategy. (editable if the user has Administrator permission)The setting that
governs whether or not resources are switched over to a backup server in the cluster when a
server is shutdown. The setting "Switchover Resources" indicates that resources will be
brought in service on a backup server in the cluster. The setting "Do not Switchover
Resources" indicates that resources will not be brought in service on another server in the
cluster.
l Failover Strategy. The setting allows you to require the confirmation of failovers from specific
systems in the LifeKeeper cluster. It is only available to LifeKeeper administrators. Operators
and guests will not be able to see it. By default, all failovers proceed automatically with no
user intervention. However, once the confirm failover flag is set, failovers from the designated
system will require confirmation by executing the command: lk_confirmso -y system.
The failover may be blocked by executing the command: lk_confirmso -n system. The
system will take a pre-programmed default action unless one of these commands is executed
within a specified interval. Two flags in the /etc/default/LifeKeeper file govern this
automatic action.
l
CONFIRMSODEF
This specifies the default action. If set to "0", the default action is to proceed with
failover. If set to "1", the default action is to block failover.
l
CONFIRMSOTO
This is set to the time in seconds that LifeKeeper should wait before taking the default
action.
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