RDF System Management Manual for J-series and H-series RVUs (RDF Update 13)

Contents
About this Document....................................................................................13
Supported Release Version Updates (RVUs)................................................................................13
Intended Audience..................................................................................................................13
New and Changed Information in this Edition............................................................................13
Changes to 529826–012 Manual........................................................................................13
Changes to 529826–011 Manual.........................................................................................14
Changes to 529826–010 Manual........................................................................................14
Document Organization..........................................................................................................15
Notation Conventions..............................................................................................................16
General Syntax Notation....................................................................................................16
Notation for Messages.......................................................................................................19
Related Information.................................................................................................................20
Publishing History...................................................................................................................21
HP Encourages your Comments................................................................................................21
1 Introducing RDF........................................................................................22
RDF Subsystem Overview.........................................................................................................23
Unplanned Outages With ZLT..............................................................................................24
Unplanned Outages Without ZLT.........................................................................................24
Planned Outages...............................................................................................................25
Features............................................................................................................................26
User Interfaces.......................................................................................................................28
RDFCOM for Subsystem Management and Operations...........................................................28
Scanning the EMS Event Log...............................................................................................28
RDF Tasks..............................................................................................................................29
RDF Processes........................................................................................................................30
Primary System Processes....................................................................................................31
Backup System Processes....................................................................................................31
RDF Operations......................................................................................................................31
Monitor Process.................................................................................................................32
Extractor Process................................................................................................................32
Receiver Process................................................................................................................35
RDFNET Process................................................................................................................37
Updater Processes..............................................................................................................37
Purger Process...................................................................................................................40
Available Types of Replication to Multiple Backup Systems...........................................................43
RDF Control Subvolume......................................................................................................44
Other RDF Features.................................................................................................................44
Triple Contingency.............................................................................................................44
Loopback Configuration (Single System)................................................................................44
Online Product Initialization................................................................................................45
Online Database Synchronization........................................................................................45
Online Dumps of the Backup Database.................................................................................45
Subvolume-Level and File-Level Replication.............................................................................45
Shared Access DDL Operations...........................................................................................46
Configurable Software Location...........................................................................................46
EMS Support.....................................................................................................................46
SMF Support.....................................................................................................................46
RTD Warning Thresholds.....................................................................................................46
Process-Lockstep Operation.................................................................................................46
Support for Network Transactions.........................................................................................47
RDF and NonStop SQL/MX................................................................................................47
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