Identifying Cluster And Resource States - Novell NETWARE 6-DOCUMENTATION Manual

Identifying Cluster and Resource States

Both the Cluster State view in ConsoleOne and the Cluster Management link
in NetWare Remote Manager give you important information about the status
of servers and resources in your cluster.
Cluster servers and resources display in different colors, depending on their
operating state. When servers and resources are green, they are in a normal
operating condition. When a server that has been part of the cluster is red with
a break in the icon, it has failed. When a resource is red, it is waiting for
administrator intervention. When a server is gray with no break in the icon,
that server is not currently a member of the cluster, or its state is unknown.
When a resource is blank or has no colored icon, it is unassigned, offline,
changing state, or in the process of loading or unloading.
The yellow ball in the middle of the server icon designates the master server
in the cluster. The master server is initially the first server in the cluster, but
another server can become the master if the first server fails.
The Epoch number indicates the number of times the cluster state has
changed. The cluster state will change every time a server joins or leaves the
cluster.
Clicking on the Event Log tab in ConsoleOne gives you a detailed history of
your cluster. Every time the cluster state changes, a new event is added to the
Event Log. You can sort the events in the log by clicking on the column
headings of the table. You can reverse the sort order by pressing the Shift key
while clicking on a column heading. The Event Log is stored on the special
cluster partition that was created during the Novell Cluster Services
installation, which ensures it is always available. You can also save the Event
Log to a file.
Clicking on the HTML Report tab in ConsoleOne in the Cluster State view
screen launches a more detailed report of the state of your cluster. You can
view this report or save it to an HTML file for printing or viewing with a
browser.
The following table identifies the different resource states and gives
descriptions and possible actions for each state. The possible actions describe
steps for using ConsoleOne to complete each action. You can also use the
NetWare Remote Manager to perform the same actions. In NetWare Remote
Manager, in the left column under the Clustering section, click Cluster
Management and then select the desired resource.
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