Tasks

Installing Your Cluster

The SunPlexTM Manager installs Sun Cluster 3.0 and associated components on a specific set of Solaris machines.

If prerequisite hardware criteria are met, the SunPlex Manager performs the following functions.

To install Sun Cluster 3.0 on a new cluster by using the SunPlex Manager, refer to the Sun Cluster 3.0 Installation Guide.

Installing and Configuring Your Highly Available Applications (Data Services)

Now you can install and configure your highly available applications (such as web servers and databases) by using a graphical user interface (GUI). The GUI simplifies the installation by prompting you for information specific to your system and providing you with a basic configuration for your application.

The SunPlex Manager provides complete application installation and configuration to simplify the installation of applications such as an Oracle database or iPlanet Web Server on the cluster.

With a minimal amount of user input through web-based wizards, SunPlex Manager installs the application binaries on all nodes of the cluster, edits the application's configuration files, configures the cluster to run the application, and starts the application in the cluster framework.

If you require more tailoring, tuning, and control over the installation and configuration, you can also install and configure your applications manually.

Administering and Monitoring Your Cluster

You can use the SunPlex Manager can be used to administer (add, modify, and remove) the major components that a Sun Cluster 3.0 cluster contains.

SunPlex Manager also provides basic node information, such as uptime, a view of the running processes, and a view of the system logs. If you need command-line access to one or more nodes of the cluster, a link is provided for launching a telnet window.

Conventions

Cautions Features Icons

SunPlex Manager uses icons to highlight components that you monitor.

Icons and colored text also direct you to important information.

Convention Definition
Error
The SunPlex Manager encountered an error while running the command.
Warning
The SunPlex Manager is about to perform an action that will significantly alter the cluster's configuration.
Note
Note this information to make an informed decision about the task you are performing.
AaBbCc123 Commands that are run by the SunPlex Manager.

For example: Running /usr/cluster/bin/scswitch -F -g foo

Online The component is online.
Offline The component is offline.
Disabled The component is in a disabled state.


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