HP NonStop RDF J-series RVUs Management Manual page 7

Process Priority.........................................................................................................................117
EMS Logs (Collectors)..............................................................................................................117
RETAINCOUNT.......................................................................................................................117
PURGETIME.............................................................................................................................117
UPDATERDELAY.....................................................................................................................117
UPDATEROPEN......................................................................................................................117
Reading Log Messages..................................................................................................................118
Examining RDF Messages........................................................................................................118
ASAP...................................................................................................................................................120
5 Critical Operations, Special Situations, and Error Conditions.............................121
Recovering From File System Errors..................................................................................................121
Handling Disk Space Problems..........................................................................................................124
Exceeding the Maximum Number of Concurrent File Opens............................................................125
Responding to Operational Failures...................................................................................................125
Communication Line Failures.......................................................................................................126
System Failures..............................................................................................................................126
Processor Failures..........................................................................................................................127
Extractor Failure.......................................................................................................................127
Receiver Failure........................................................................................................................127
Updater Failure........................................................................................................................127
Purger Failure...........................................................................................................................128
RDFNET Failure.......................................................................................................................128
RDF State Transition Failure....................................................................................................128
Problems Involving TMF...............................................................................................................128
TMF Audited Volume Failure..................................................................................................128
TMF Subsystem Failure on the Primary System......................................................................128
TMF Subsystem Failure on the Backup System.......................................................................129
Volume Recovery Processing..............................................................................................129
Volume Recovery Failure....................................................................................................129
File Recovery on the Primary System............................................................................................130
File Recovery on the Backup System.............................................................................................130
TMFCOM ABORT TRANSACTION With AVOIDHANGING Option on Primary System........131
Audit Trails Pinned by RDF on the Primary System.....................................................................131
Stopping RDF......................................................................................................................................132
Stopping RDF by Stopping TMF...................................................................................................133
Stopping RDF From the Primary System......................................................................................134
Stopping RDF From the Backup System.......................................................................................134
Stopping RDF Using STOP RDF, DRAIN......................................................................................135
Stopping RDF using STOP RDF, REVERSE Operation.................................................................135
Restarting RDF....................................................................................................................................136
Carrying Out a Planned Switchover...................................................................................................136
Standard Configurations...............................................................................................................136
Using STOP RDF, REVERSE and the REVERSE Trigger...............................................................137
Reciprocal Configurations and Switchover...................................................................................137
Takeover Operations...........................................................................................................................139
The RDF Takeover Operation........................................................................................................139
Phase One Undo Pass...............................................................................................................139
Phase Two Undo Pass...............................................................................................................140
Phase Three Undo Pass............................................................................................................140
Issuing the TAKEOVER Command...............................................................................................140
Issuing the TAKEOVER Command in an Obey File.....................................................................142
Monitoring Takeover Outcome......................................................................................................142
Takeover Failure............................................................................................................................143
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