Takeover Phase 3 Performance; Communication Failures During Phase 3 Takeover Processing; Takeover Delays And Purger Restarts; Takeover Restartability - HP NonStop RDF J-series RVUs Management Manual

(it is undone during phase 1 on the tenth system). All of the updaters then look for audit data
associated with the transaction, and undo it.
The purger of the network master determines what network transactions are incomplete across
the different backup systems, and it produces the master network undo list. Each purger then
uses this master list to ascertain the transaction data that must be undone on its backup database.
For example, if a network transaction involved only four of the ten primary systems in an RDF
network, then that transaction only needs to be undone on the backup databases where that data
was replicated. Because the other systems were not involved, the transaction does not need to
be listed there. The list of network transactions that need to be undone on a specific system
resides in its ZNETUNDO file.

Takeover Phase 3 Performance

The speed with which a takeover completes for an entire RDF network varies based on the
number of systems in the network and how far any system had fallen behind when the takeover
was initiated.
For example, if you have three systems in your RDF network, and all extractors on all three
systems were keeping up with audit generation on their systems, and then one system fails, the
takeover operations might only take a modest number of additional seconds to complete phase
3 takeover processing.
In contrast, if you have three systems in your RDF network, and one extractor had fallen 60
minutes behind at the time its system went down, then phase 3 takeover processing on the other
two systems will take many more seconds to complete. The reason for this is that phase 3
processing on the two systems that were not behind will have to go through 60 minutes of data
to determine what must be undone due to data missing on the system that had fallen behind.
A variation of the first example is that no extractors have fallen behind, but you have 25 systems
in your RDF network. In such a case, phase 3 processing might take many additional seconds
because data must be checked for so many different systems in order to determine what network
data might be missing from the various systems in the RDF network.

Communication Failures During Phase 3 Takeover Processing

If one RDF subsystem is unable to reach the backup system of another RDF subsystem during
phase 3 processing, phase 3 processing stalls until the communication line comes back up. This
can lengthen the overall duration of takeover operations on all backup systems. Should this type
of stall occur, the RDF subsystem issues an event message alerting operators to the situation.

Takeover Delays and Purger Restarts

During phase 3 purger work, the network master needs information from the other purger
processes in the RDF network, and, during the latter part of phase 3 processing, the non-network
master purgers need information from the purger of the network master. When a purger process
is waiting for information from another purger, it waits for up to 60 seconds, during which time
it does not respond to certain requests (such as STATUS RDF). After a purger has waited 60
seconds, it quits the operation and restarts. This allows the purger to read the $RECEIVE file,
respond to messages that have been waiting for replies, and then retry phase 3 processing.

Takeover Restartability

As has always been the case, the RDFCOM TAKEOVER command is restartable. Therefore, if a
takeover operation terminates prematurely for any reason on any system in an RDF network, it
can be restarted.
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