Enabling Clusters For Business Continuity; Adding Cluster Peer Credentials - Novell BUSINESS CONTINUITY CLUSTERING 1.1 SP1 - 9-21-2010 ADMINISTRATION GUIDE FOR OPEN ENTERPRISE SERVER 1 SP2 LINUX Administration Manual

Enabling Clusters for Business Continuity

If you want to enable a cluster to fail over selected resources or all cluster resources to another
cluster, you must enable business continuity on that cluster.
1 Start your Internet browser and enter the URL for iManager.
The URL is http://server_ip_address/nps/iManager.html. Replace server_ip_address with the
IP address or DNS name of the server that has iManager and the Identity Manager
preconfigured templates for iManager installed. This server should be in the same eDirectory
tree as the cluster you are enabling for business continuity.
2 Specify your username and password, specify the tree where you want to log in, then click
Login.
3 Ensure that the BCC-specific Identity Manager drivers are running.
3a In the left column, click DirXML, then click the DIRXML Overview link.
3b Search the eDirectory Container or tree for the BCC-specific Identity Manager drivers.
3c For each driver, click the upper right corner of the driver icon to see if a driver is started or
stopped.
3d If the driver is stopped, start it by selecting Start.
4 In the left column, click Clusters, then click the Cluster Options link.
5 Specify a cluster name, or browse and select one.
6 Click the Properties button, then click the Business Continuity tab.
7 Ensure that the Enable Business Continuity Features check box is selected.
8 Repeat
9 Continue with

Adding Cluster Peer Credentials

In order for one cluster to connect to a second cluster, the first cluster must be able to authenticate to
the second cluster. To make this possible, you must add the username and password of the user that
the selected cluster will use to connect to the selected peer cluster.
IMPORTANT: In order to add or change cluster peer credentials, you must access iManager on a
server that is in the same eDirectory tree as the cluster you are adding or changing peer credentials
for.
1 In the Connections section of the Business Continuity Cluster Properties page, select the peer
cluster, then click Edit.
In order for a cluster to appear in the list of possible peer clusters, that cluster must have the
following:

Business Continuity Clustering software installed.

Identity Manager installed.

The BCC-specific Identity Manager drivers configured and running.

Be enabled for business continuity.
2 Add the administrator username and password that the selected cluster will use to connect to
the selected peer cluster.
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Step 1 through Step 7 for the other cluster that this cluster will migrate resources to.
Step 1 in the Adding Cluster Peer Credentials section.