Relevant SunPlex Documentation - System Administrator
The following SunPlex documents include procedures and information associated with the system administration concepts:
Sun Cluster 3.1 Software Installation Guide
Sun Cluster 3.1 System Administration Guide
Sun Cluster 3.1 Error Messages Guide
Sun Cluster 3.1 Release Notes
Sun Cluster 3.1 Release Notes Supplement
Application Programmer Viewpoint
The SunPlex system provides data services for such applications as Oracle, NFS, DNS, Sun™ ONE Web Server, Apache Web Server, and Sun™ ONE Directory Server. Data services are created by configuring an off-the-shelf applications to run under control of the Sun Cluster software. The Sun Cluster software provides configuration files and management methods that start, stop, and monitor the applications. If you need to create a new failover or scalable service, you can use the SunPlex Application Programming Interface (API) and the Data Service Enabling Technologies API (DSET API) to develop the necessary configuration files and management methods that enable its application to run as a data service on the cluster.
Key Concepts - Application Programmer
Application programmers need to understand the following:
The characteristics of their application to determine whether it can be made to run as a failover or scalable data service.
The Sun Cluster API, DSET API, and the "generic" data service. Programmers need to determine which tool is most suitable for them to use to write programs or scripts to configure their application for the cluster environment.
Suggested Application Programmer Conceptual References
The following sections contain material relevant to the preceding key concepts:
Relevant SunPlex Documentation - Application Programmer
The following SunPlex documents include procedures and information associated with the application programmer concepts:
Sun Cluster 3.1 Data Services Developer's Guide
Sun Cluster 3.1 Data Services Installation and Configuration Guide
SunPlex System Task
All SunPlex system tasks require some conceptual background. The following table provides a high-level view of the tasks and the documentation that describes task steps. The concepts sections in this book describe how the concepts map to these tasks.
Table 1-1 Task Map: Mapping User Tasks to Documentation
To Do This Task... | Use This Documentation... |
|---|---|
Install cluster hardware | Sun Cluster 3.1 Hardware Collection |
Install Solaris software on the cluster | Sun Cluster 3.1 Software Installation Guide |
Install Sun™ Management Center software | Sun Cluster 3.1 Software Installation Guide |
Install and configure Sun Cluster software | Sun Cluster 3.1 Software Installation Guide |
Install and configure volume management software | Sun Cluster 3.1 Software Installation Guide Your volume management documentation |
Install and configure Sun Cluster data services | Sun Cluster 3.1 Data Services Installation and Configuration Guide |
Service cluster hardware | Sun Cluster 3.1 Hardware Collection |
Administer Sun Cluster software | Sun Cluster 3.1 System Administration Guide |
Administer volume management software | Sun Cluster 3.1 System Administration Guide and your volume management documentation |
Administer application software | Your application documentation |
Problem identification and suggested user actions | Sun Cluster 3.1 Error Messages Guide |
Create a new data service | Sun Cluster 3.1 Data Services Developer's Guide |