Reporting the State of a Critical Device

Important - You must configure all the Cluster Members in the same way.

Description

Use this command to report (change) the state of a Critical Device to ClusterXL.

The reported state can be one of these:

ok - Critical Device is alive.
init - Critical Device is initializing. The Cluster Member is Down. In this state, the Cluster Member cannot become Active.
problem - Critical Device failed. If this state is reported to ClusterXL, the Cluster Member immediately goes Down. This causes a failover.

If a Critical Device fails to report its state to the Cluster Member within the defined timeout, the Critical Device, and by design the Cluster Member, are seen as failed. This is true only for Critical Devices with timeouts. If a Critical Device is registered with the -t 0 parameter, there is no timeout. Until the Critical Device reports otherwise, the state of the Critical Device is considered to be the last reported state.

Syntax

Shell	Command
Gaia Clish	`N/A`
Expert mode	`cphaconf set_pnote -d <`Name of Critical Device`> -s {ok \| init \| problem} [-g] report`

Notes:

The -g flag applies the command to all configured Virtual Systems.
If the <Name of Critical Device> reports its state as "problem", then the Cluster Member reports its state as failed.