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LifeKeeper® for Linux v4.5.0 Sendmail Advanced Message Server (SAMS) Recovery Kit Administration Guide Revision B 07/2004

Configuring SAMS with LifeKeeper Figure 1 illustrates how SAMS works in a LifeKeeper environment. An active/standby configuration means that only one

Configuring SAMS with LifeKeeper server may fail when a switchover to the backup server occurs. Note that the SAMS Recovery Kit does not require the s

Configuring SAMS with LifeKeeper Sendmail Configuration File The following are a few more important points to note in the Sendmail configuration file

Configuring SAMS with LifeKeeper DNS, Sendmail and LifeKeeper DNS offers a mechanism (MX Records) for specifying backup or alternate hosts for mail de

Active/Standby Scenario Active/Standby Scenario The configuration scenario in this section will describe the file movement and the symbolic linking th

Active/Standby Scenario to the switchable IP address when asked for the “Host Name” in the Sendmail Switch installer program. 5. SAMS is tested to en

Active/Standby Scenario The black arrows represent active symbolic links (i.e. the files on Server 1 are actively linked to the shared storage device

Active/Standby Scenario The gray arrows represent dangling links (i.e. the files on Server 2 are linked to the shared storage device, but the shared d

Active/Standby Scenario The gray arrows represent dangling links (i.e. the files on Server 1 are linked to the shared storage device, but the shared d

LifeKeeper Configuration Tasks LifeKeeper Configuration Tasks You can perform the following configuration tasks from the LifeKeeper GUI. The following

The product described in this book is a licensed product of SteelEye® Technology, Inc. SteelEye, SteelEye Technology, and LifeKeeper are registered tr

LifeKeeper Configuration Tasks same drop down menu choices as the Edit menu. This, of course, is only an option when a hierarchy already exists. You

LifeKeeper Configuration Tasks To create a resource instance from the primary server, you should complete the following steps: 1. From the LifeKeeper

LifeKeeper Configuration Tasks 2. Select the Switchback Type. This dictates how the SAMS instance will be switched back to this server when it comes

LifeKeeper Configuration Tasks 5. Select the IP Tag. This is a tag name given to the IP Resource hierarchy that the SAMS resource will be dependent up

LifeKeeper Configuration Tasks Creating mail/sams resource… BEGIN creation of resource “sams” on server “smokey” at Fri Oct 12 10:31:34 EDT 2001 Cr

LifeKeeper Configuration Tasks 10. Click the Done button to exit the Create Resource Hierarchy menu selection. Deleting a Resource Hierarchy To delet

LifeKeeper Configuration Tasks sams Click on the Next button to proceed to the next dialog box. 4. An information box appears confirming your

LifeKeeper Configuration Tasks Important: The user must be careful when deleting the SAMS resource hierarchy. The SAMS Recovery Kit keeps the backup s

LifeKeeper Configuration Tasks dialog box will not appear, since the wizard has already identified the template server in the create stage. This is al

LifeKeeper Configuration Tasks Click on the Next button to proceed to the next dialog box. 5. Select the Switchback Type. This dictates how the SAMS

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LifeKeeper Configuration Tasks 7. An information box will appear explaining that LifeKeeper has successfully checked your environment and that all th

LifeKeeper Configuration Tasks appear if you are extending this SAMS resource immediately following its creation. Click on the Next button. 10. Thi

LifeKeeper Configuration Tasks Click on the Next button to proceed to the next dialog box. 13. Select or enter the IP Resource Tag. Click on the N

LifeKeeper Configuration Tasks 15. Click the Done button in the last dialog box to exit from the Extend Resource Hierarchy menu selection. Note: Be

LifeKeeper Configuration Tasks 4. An information box appears confirming the target server and the SAMS resource hierarchy you have chosen to unexten

LifeKeeper Configuration Tasks Performing a Manual Switchover from the GUI You can initiate a manual switchover from the LifeKeeper GUI by selecting E

Troubleshooting Troubleshooting This section provides a list of messages that you may encounter during the process of creating, extending, removing an

Troubleshooting ERROR: Must specify Sendmail configuration file name The name of the Sendmail configuration file must be specified. Enter the correc

Troubleshooting ERROR: Message store directory setting invalid or not found in mail store configuration file “$MS_CONF” The ms-path variable is missi

Troubleshooting ERROR: Failed to create LifeKeeper Application “mail” on server “$SERVER” LifeKeeper was unable to create the LifeKeeper application

Troubleshooting Error - canextend () - The “$DIR” directory does not exist on server “$TARGET_SYSTEM” The specified SAMS directory does not exist on t

Troubleshooting Error - extend () - LifeKeeper Internal ID ($ID) is already being used by another resource type on “$SERVER” LifeKeeper uses an Intern

Troubleshooting restore: sams: ERROR: sendmail configuration file “$FILE” is empty The Sendmail configuration is empty or does not exist. restore: sa

Troubleshooting LifeKeeper was unable to stop the SAMS processes. The actual error messages from subprocesses are displayed within this message. See t

SAMS Recovery Kit Administration Guide Introduction The Sendmail Advanced Message Server (SAMS) is a suite of commercial messaging applications. These

Introduction • LifeKeeper Configuration Tasks. A description of the tasks for creating and managing your SAMS resource hierarchies using the LifeKeep

Requirements Reference Documents The following is a list of reference documents associated with the SAMS product and the LifeKeeper SAMS Recovery Kit:

Requirements • Servers. The Recovery Kit requires two or more supported computers configured in accordance with LifeKeeper requirements described in

Configuring SAMS with LifeKeeper Configuring SAMS with LifeKeeper This section contains information you should consider before you start to configure