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InfoScale™ Operations Manager 9.0 User's Guide

Last Published: 2025-04-14

Product(s): InfoScale & Storage Foundation (9.0)

Platform: AIX,HP-UX,Linux,Solaris,VMware ESX,Windows

Example: Creating a service group, adding it to a cluster, and bringing it online using Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager

Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager provides you a single and centralized management console for the Storage Foundation and high availability products. You can use Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager to perform the VCS-related high availability and disaster recovery operations including the following operations:

Adding a service group to a cluster.
Bringing a service group online.
Taking a service group offline.
Switching the service groups on a remote cluster.
Making a service group local or global.

The following example describes how you can use Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager to add a service group to a globally configured cluster and bring it online.

This example uses the following:

Example_cluster	Globally configured cluster to which you add a service group.
Example_sg	The Failover type service group that you want to add to the Example_cluster cluster and bring online.

As part of creating the Example_sg service group, you need to add the following resources and establish their dependencies:

Resource name	Resource type
vol_1	Volume
dg_1	Disk group

When you configure the dependencies of these resources, select vol_1 as the parent resource and dg_1 as the child resource.

To create and add the Example_sg service group to the Example_cluster cluster, you do the following:

In the Management Server console, go to the Availability perspective and select Manage in the left pane.
Expand the Organization or Uncategorized Clusters to locate the Example_cluster cluster.
Right-click on the Example_cluster cluster and select Create Service Group.
In the wizard panels to create and add a service group to a cluster, enter the following information:

Create Service Group	Specify the name of the service group as `Example_sg`. Specify the type of the service group as Failover. Note: The name that you enter must start with a letter. The name of the service group can contain only letters, numbers, hyphens, or underscores.
Configure System List	Select one or more hosts for the service groups in the Available Systems field and move them to the Systems in Priority Order field.
Configure Resources	Specify the names and types for the vol_1 and dg_1 resources. Add them to the Resource List table.
Resource Dependencies	Select vol_1 as the parent resource and dg_1 as the child resource. Click Link to add the selected resources to the Dependencies table. Click Finish.

To view the Example_sg service group that you have added to the Example_cluster cluster, do the following:

In the Management Server console, go to the Availability perspective and expand Manage in the left pane.
Expand the Organization, or Uncategorized Clusters to locate the Example_cluster cluster and then expand the cluster.
Expand the Service groups node and then select the Example_sg service group.
Click the Overview tab.

By default, the Example_sg service group that you have added to the Example_cluster cluster is in offline mode. To put the Example_sg service group into a responsive and functioning state, you must manually bring it online.

To bring the Example_sg service group online, do the following:

In the Management Server console, go to the Availability perspective and select Manage in the left pane.
Expand the Organization or Uncategorized Clusters to locate the Example_cluster cluster.
Expand the cluster and then the Service Groups node to locate the Example_sg service group.
Right-click on the service group and select Online.
In the Online Service Group panel, select the host on which you want to bring the service group online and click OK.

For more information, refer to the Arctera InfoScale Operations Manager Add-ons User Guide.