RDF System Management Manual for H-Series RVUs (RDF 1.8)

Added this table to identify ANSI object types and their ANSI name space
identifiers.
Table 16-1 (page 295)
• Moved the lockstep gateway event messages here from Chapter 15 (page 289).
• Updated messages in “RDF Messages” (page 342) for ANSI-name support.
• Added new mapfile and maplog-related messages to “RDF Messages”
(page 342) and “RDFCOM Messages” (page 389).
Appendix C (page 335)
Document Organization
This manual presents three levels of information: introductory and conceptual information
(Chapter 1), task-oriented guidelines (Chapters 2 through 7 and Chapters 10 through 14), and
reference information (Chapters 8 and 9 and Appendixes A, B, and C). The following table shows
where to look for the information you need, based upon the responsibility you have or the kind
of tasks you perform at your site:
Chapter/AppendixResponsibility
AllSystem manager
1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, A, C, D, ESystem operator
1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, A, B, C, D, EDatabase
administrator
1, 2, 3, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17System analyst
1, 2, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 17, A, B, C, DApplication designer
The chapters and appendixes contain this information:
• Chapter 1 (page 35) introduces RDF and its goals, features, and capabilities; describes the
main RDF processes and their functions; introduces the RDFCOM and RDFSCAN command
interfaces used to communicate with the subsystem; and presents an overview of RDF
operation.
• Chapter 2 (page 63) describes how to configure hardware and prepare software for RDF
installation and operation.
• Chapter 3 (page 73) explains how to install and configure RDF, including how to copy
databases and files from the primary system to the backup system before starting RDF.
• Chapter 4 (page 101) discusses how to operate RDF, including how to issue RDFCOM and
RDFSCAN commands and how to display RDF configuration parameters and operating
statistics, change configuration parameters, and interpret log files.
• Chapter 5 (page 121) explains how to manage the RDF environment, including how to recover
from file-system errors, respond to failures, stop and restart the RDF product, direct the
backup system to take over application processing when a disaster occurs at the primary
system site, and perform other specialized tasks.
• Chapter 6 (page 147)details how to back up altered database structures and how to
resynchronize the primary and backup databases.
• Chapter 7 (page 155)describes how to synchronize entire databases or selected database
volumes online.
• Chapter 8 (page 173) and Chapter 9 (page 245) present the syntax of all RDFCOM and
RDFSCAN commands, respectively, and give examples of these commands.
• Chapter 10 (page 255) describes the triple contingency feature.
• Chapter 11 (page 261) describes subvolume-level and file-level replication.
• Chapter 12 (page 265) describes how to use the mapfile, maplog, and updater configuration
record to support mapping between primary system and backup system subvolumes.
• Chapter 13 (page 271) describes support for auxiliary audit trails.
• Chapter 14 (page 275) describes support for network transactions.
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