Create mount point automagically for Mount resource?

try using a pre-online trigger

Ryan Anderson wrote:[color=blue]
> Does anybody know of a simple way to configure VCS 4.1 (running on Solaris
> 10/SPARC) to automatically create mount directories? If you do not manually
> create the mount point directories ahead of time on each node of your cluster,
> the whole service group fails. We modified the Mount resource's online script
> in VCS 3.5, but the code in 4.1 is very obfuscated. Call me lazy.
>
> I got the /opt/VRTSvcs/bin/Mount/actions/mountpoint.vfd to run and it creates
> the mount point directory on the first time it runs, but engine_A.log gives
> a timeout error and the service group fails. If I fail it back to the node
> where it was created, it (of course) works. I'd like it to work the first
> time though....
>
> Thanks,
> Ryan[/color]

try using a pre-online trigger

Ryan Anderson wrote:[color=blue]
> Does anybody know of a simple way to configure VCS 4.1 (running on Solaris
> 10/SPARC) to automatically create mount directories? If you do not manually
> create the mount point directories ahead of time on each node of your cluster,
> the whole service group fails. We modified the Mount resource's online script
> in VCS 3.5, but the code in 4.1 is very obfuscated. Call me lazy.
>
> I got the /opt/VRTSvcs/bin/Mount/actions/mountpoint.vfd to run and it creates
> the mount point directory on the first time it runs, but engine_A.log gives
> a timeout error and the service group fails. If I fail it back to the node
> where it was created, it (of course) works. I'd like it to work the first
> time though....
>
> Thanks,
> Ryan[/color]

Does anybody know of a simple way to configure VCS 4.1 (running on Solaris
10/SPARC) to automatically create mount directories? If you do not manually
create the mount point directories ahead of time on each node of your cluster,
the whole service group fails. We modified the Mount resource's online script
in VCS 3.5, but the code in 4.1 is very obfuscated. Call me lazy.

I got the /opt/VRTSvcs/bin/Mount/actions/mountpoint.vfd to run and it creates
the mount point directory on the first time it runs, but engine_A.log gives
a timeout error and the service group fails. If I fail it back to the node
where it was created, it (of course) works. I'd like it to work the first
time though....

Thanks,
Ryan

That's wonderful. I have this working now, and is a very stupid-simple solution.
To use a preonline trigger, all you have to do is place a self-made script
into /opt/VRTSvcs/bin/triggers (look in /opt/VRTSvcs/bin/sample_triggers),
then add the PreOnline variable to equal 1, ie:

hagrp -modify <service group> PreOnline 1

It will then execute the preonline script on the host you failover to thereafter.

Regards,
Ryan

Me <me@hotmail.com> wrote:[color=blue]
>try using a pre-online trigger
>
>Ryan Anderson wrote:[color=green]
>> Does anybody know of a simple way to configure VCS 4.1 (running on Solaris
>> 10/SPARC) to automatically create mount directories? If you do not manually
>> create the mount point directories ahead of time on each node of your[/color][/color]
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>> the whole service group fails. We modified the Mount resource's online[/color][/color]
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>> in VCS 3.5, but the code in 4.1 is very obfuscated. Call me lazy.
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>> I got the /opt/VRTSvcs/bin/Mount/actions/mountpoint.vfd to run and it[/color][/color]
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>> the mount point directory on the first time it runs, but engine_A.log[/color][/color]
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>> a timeout error and the service group fails. If I fail it back to the[/color][/color]
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>> where it was created, it (of course) works. I'd like it to work the first
>> time though....
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>> Thanks,
>> Ryan[/color][/color]