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PowerHA for AIX

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Add cancel option if an RG handling failed

Today, if a RG processing fails. After a manual fix all remaining tasks mast be finished to get the cluster to a stable state.I would be good to have a cancel option.So that after, manually removing the reason why it failed, the RG handling can be...
almost 6 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Delivered

clcallev need to care about return codes

We had the need to add pre-events.During testing we discovered that the Pre-defined PowerHA event will be started regardless of the return code of the Primary event. This need to be changed!
almost 6 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 2 Delivered

Request to Change the design of powerHA Smart assit for Oracle which depends on /tmp fs to setup temp files to elsewhere

Customer wants to change the design code of powerHA smart assist for oracle which depends on /tmp fs to setup temp files to elsewhere.Customer had regular outages in recent days due to /tmp fs getting full since any (non-previleged) user/Applicati...
about 6 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Delivered

PowerHA IP storage support

Add support for IP storage in PowerHA
over 6 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 2 Delivered

If ROHA takes CPU from another machine in EP, it returns it to EP as available, not to machine

We have two machines in EP and about 80 lpars on each (not all of them have PowerHA). In case of big RG fallover it will take the needed CPUs from the second machine and the CPUs it was using on primary machine can go to unusable part of EP till m...
over 6 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Delivered

rsyslog support for PowerHA

Power HA does not support rsyslog facility.Because syslog facility and operations are hardcoded in Power HA. In cllog script also we can see /etc/syslog.conf is hardcoded.Hence, the AIX support recommended using AIX syslogd facility. Due to securi...
over 6 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Delivered

Enhancing PowerHA cl_svc_info script and logic

This RFE is intended to help to solve an issue with clusterware software PowerHA 7.1.3.6 we face (but will hit 7.2 sure), namely "cl_svc_info" script (and maybe several others, older scripts) as that usually work based on checking svc/storage boxe...
almost 7 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Delivered

AIX Live Kernel Update taking care of running PowerHA cluster

A PowerHA cluster is moved into unmanaged mode during AIX Live Kernel Update Provide automation for AIX Live Kernel Updates to change a running HA cluster from managed to unmanaged, increase timers, do the AIX Live Kernel Update, decrease timers a...
almost 7 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Delivered

Improve PowerHA 7.1.3.5 SmartAssist Oracle DB scripts

As per current design (PowerHA 7.1.3.5 in my case) - if either Oracle listener or Oracle DB goes down - we will invoke the restart script to restart both listener and DB, which is wrong. If a listener goes down, only the listener should be restart...
over 7 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 1 Delivered

PowerHA add delay option to startup

When starting the whole cluster the Nodes are processed in sequence.This creates problems when RGs have start after dependencies, are located on different Primary nodes.A detailed problem description got already sent to Ravi Shankar.
over 7 years ago in PowerHA for AIX 2 Delivered