[Veritas-ha] IPMultiNICB, mpathd and network outages

2008-10-20 Thread Paul Robertson
We recently experienced a Cisco network issue which prevented all nodes in that subnet from accessing the default gateway for about a minute. The Solaris nodes which run probe-based IPMP reported that all interfaces had failed because they were unable to ping the default gateway; however, they

Re: [Veritas-ha] IPMultiNICB, mpathd and network outages

2008-10-20 Thread Jim Senicka
I would be more concerned about future failures being handled properly. If you were able to take out all networks from all nodes at same time, you have a SPOF. If this was a one time maintenance upgrade to your network gear and not a normal event, setting VCS to not respond to network events means

Re: [Veritas-ha] IPMultiNICB, mpathd and network outages

2008-10-20 Thread Craig Simpson
Some notes inline. On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 7:37 AM, Paul Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We recently experienced a Cisco network issue which prevented all nodes in that subnet from accessing the default gateway for about a minute. The Solaris nodes which run probe-based IPMP reported

Re: [Veritas-ha] IPMultiNICB, mpathd and network outages

2008-10-20 Thread Paul Robertson
Buddy, Thanks for the info. The FaultPropagation=0 idea is a good one, but it applies at the service group level, and cannot be set only for specified resources or resource types. It's probably better than my ToleranceLimit approach, since it results in a resfault and will therefore run our

Re: [Veritas-ha] IPMultiNICB, mpathd and network outages

2008-10-20 Thread Sandeep Agarwal (MTV)
If you only have 1 router (which is very common) in your subnet then the router can possibly be a SPOF for IPMP. Here's how you can setup up more targets for the IPMP to probe so that the router is not a SPOF. How to Manually Specify Target Systems for Probe-Based Failure Detection 1.

Re: [Veritas-ha] IPMultiNICB, mpathd and network outages

2008-10-20 Thread Craig Simpson
Yes always have 2 interconnect switches for sure. Also if you switch interconnect to UDP for Oracle, it will still work with a few modifications using 2 switches. For me having 2 switches for public solved most networking blunders. IT is OK cluster wise if the DG goes away. Traffic just stops,