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Howto configure Postoffline trigger under Veritas Cluster Server
Zahid.Haseeb | 25 Nov 2012 | 0 comments

 

- My Lab Environment

OS = rhel 6.2

SFHA = 6.0

- Introduction to SSMTP utility:

SSMTP is a program to deliver an email from a local computer to a configured mailhost (mailhub)/gmail. One of its primary uses is for forwarding automated email (like system alerts) off your machine and to an external email address.

- Installation:

#yum install ssmtp

- Configuration file:

/etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf

- Configuration:

To configure SSMTP, you will have to edit its configuration file (/etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf) and enter your account settings:

# The user account that sends all the mails
root=username@gmail.com

# The mail server (where the mail is sent to), usually on port 587
mailhub=smtp.gmail.com:587

# Use SSL/TLS before starting negotiation 
UseSTARTTLS=Yes

# Username/Password
AuthUser=username of gmail account
AuthPass=...
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24/7 Availability of Virtualized Applications
Doreet | 19 Nov 2012 | 0 comments

See how Veritas Cluster Server high availability and disaster recovery solutions enable enterprises to eliminate the risk of deploying business critical applications in virtual environments.

 

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Read or about Veritas Cluster Server at: http://www.symantec.com/cluster-server
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SFHA 6.0/6.0.1 Quality Rocks!
anishv | 08 Nov 2012 | 1 comment

We are seeing great adoption rate for our newest SFHA releases (6.0 & 6.0.1) and customer escalation data shows a marked improvement in quality over previous release (5.1SP1). In the last year (Nov 2011-Oct 2012), deployments of 5.1SP1 and 6.0/6.0.1 releases were equal in number whereas the customer escalations received on 6.0/6.0.1 stream were just 40% as compared to those received on 5.1SP1. And the good news doesn’t stop there! It is common that an escalation does not actually end up in product code changes and the trend continues, significantly smaller number of customer escalations on 6.0/6.0.1 stream resulted in product changes as compared to previous release.

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LivePerson Customer Success Story
Doreet | 09 Jan 2013 | 0 comments

Hosting some 1.3 billion website visits each month, LivePerson understands how to scale big. The CSO for the largest provider of realtime customer engagement solutions explains how the firm is leveraging Veritas Cluster Server to meet business-critical requirements around cloud services availability and deliver on its SLAs for customers.

http://www.symantec.com/resources/customer_success/detail.jsp?cid=liveperson
 

 

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Flexibility added to PanicSystemOnDGLoss
Pooja Sarda | 02 Nov 2012 | 0 comments

 

The VCS DiskGroup agent has a configurable option PanicSystemOnDGLoss. It enables fast failover of application on loss of storage connectivity or when disk group commands are not responding. On extremely busy systems, it can cause halting of the system due to consecutive monitor timeouts. Prior to VCS 5.1, it was set to on (1) by default. Based on feedback, we changed the default from on (1) to off (0). However, we could still only turn on/off the behavior. With VCS 6.0, we have added flexibility to set it to a value based on the use case.

0: Do not halt the system.

1: Halt the system if either disk group goes into disabled state or the disk group resource faults due to monitor timeout.

2: Halt the system if disk group goes into disabled state.

3: Halt the system if disk group resource faults due to monitor timeout.

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Applying Oracle patches on SF Oracle RAC nodes
Priya 2 | 02 Nov 2012 | 0 comments

Before installing any Oracle RAC patch or patchset software:

■ Review the latest information on supported Oracle RAC patches and patchsets:
http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=DOC5081

To apply Oracle patches

1 Freeze the service group that contains the Oracle resource and the cssd
resource:
       # hagrp -freeze grp_name

2 Install the patches or patchsets required for your Oracle RAC installation.
     See the Oracle documentation that accompanies the patch or patchset.
If the patch is for Oracle database software, after applying the patch, before
starting the database or database instance, relink the SF Oracle RAC libraries
with Oracle libraries.

3 Unfreeze the service group that contains the Oracle resource and the cssd
...

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Simplify management and high availability of application in LPARs and LPARs themselves!
Pooja Sarda | 02 Nov 2012 | 0 comments

Would you like to simplify management and high availability of LPARs (AIX logical partitions) and application running inside it? Are you moving to the private cloud?

Try our ApplicationHA for LPARs and make your application in the LPAR and the LPAR itself highly available. You can achieve this with Veritas Cluster Server in just one LPAR per physical server and light weight ApplicationHA in rest of the LPARs.

The ApplicationHA LPARs will auto-register, auto-restart and auto-failover! And that‘s not all. We support across platforms - VMWare, Solaris LDOMs and Linux KVM. More information can be found at https://www.symantec.com/application-ha.

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Customer Success: Yapi Kredi Bank Transforms IT with Symantec Solutions
Kimberley | 02 Nov 2012 | 0 comments

 

During his tenure at Yapi Kredi Bank, Cahit Erdogan has overseen rapid growth and expansion. Dealing with growth is never easy, especially in IT, but with the help of a number of Symantec solutions Erdogan has been able to tackle the challenge head on. Since partnering with Symantec the bank has realized a number of benefits including improved security, lower storage costs, and high availability of business critical data and applications. Check out this case study in CIO Digest to read more about Yapi Kredi Bank’s success. http://bit.ly/V2E7uA

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Forsythe Helps Customers Embrace The Cloud
ttron | 01 Nov 2012 | 0 comments

Great testimonial from one of our top SAMG partner discussing Storage Foundation and Cluster File System.

http://www.symantec.com/tv/products/details.jsp?vid=1932583047001

 

 

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Symantec Goes to NetApp Insight
c3lsius | 09 Jan 2013 | 0 comments

Will you be attending any of the NetApp Insight conferences? Symantec will be there on:

  • Nov 5-8, Las Vegas, Nevada
  • Nov 13-16, Dublin, Ireland
  • Dec 11-13, Macau PRC

Stop by the Symantec booth and attend our breakout presentation to learn more about our on-going partnership with NetApp and data protection and storage availability solutions. Hope to see you there!

 

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