HP Serviceguard Toolkit for SAP Sybase ASE and SAP Sybase Replication Server for Linux User Guide Version A.12.00.00

Advantages
Following are the possible advantages when Sybase ASE and Sybase Replication Server is deployed
in a Serviceguard cluster using the Sybase toolkit:
• Enables easy integration of Sybase ASE and Sybase Replication Server applications in a
highly available Serviceguard cluster on Linux.
• Provides high availability for the SAP Sybase ASE, RS, and DR Agent.
• Provides option to validate certain toolkit attribute values specified in the package configuration
file.
• Ensures resource consistency across the package nodes, which helps you to build a steady
cluster for high available solution.
Prerequisites
The prerequisites for using the Sybase toolkit are:
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Server or Suse Linux Enterprise Server (SLES)
• Sybase ASE
• Sybase Replication Server
• Serviceguard for Linux
NOTE: For latest product versions, see HP Serviceguard Toolkit for SAP Sybase ASE and SAP
Sybase Replication Server for Linux Version A.12.00.00 Release Notes
Related documentation
The following documents contain additional related information:
• Managing HP Serviceguard A.12.00.00 for Linux Administration Guide
• HP Serviceguard A.12.00.00 for Linux Release Notes
• HP Serviceguard Toolkit for SAP Sybase ASE and SAP Sybase Replication Server for Linux
Version A.12.00.00 Release Notes
• SAP Sybase's Administration and User Guide for Adaptive Server Enterprise, Replication
Server and Disaster Recovery (DR) Agent available at http://infocenter.sybase.com/
Features
The section describes the features supported with the Sybase toolkit for Linux.
Managing the Sybase toolkit
The Sybase toolkit integrates and runs the SAP Sybase ASE or RS instance in the SG/LX environment.
It allows you to start, stop, and monitor the Sybase ASE, Sybase RS, or DR Agent instances.
Cluster verification for Sybase toolkit
Cluster verification is a proactive mechanism to identify cluster inconsistencies that adversely affect
toolkit package failover to an adaptive node. You can verify the Sybase toolkit package by using
the cmcheckconf -P <pkgnew.conf> command. If there is any inconsistency, the command
logs an appropriate error or warning messages on the console.
To verify Sybase toolkit package for ASE, RS, and DRA modules:
• Verify that the Administrator user exists.
If administrator user does not exist on the package nodes, then the following message is
logged:
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