BCC Administration Guide for OES 2018 SP2

BCC Administration Guide for OES 2018 SP2

Overview of Business Continuity Clustering

Disaster Recovery Implications

Disaster Recovery Implementations

Business Continuity Clustering

BCC Deployment Scenarios

What’s New or Changed for BCC

Planning a Business Continuity Cluster

Determining Design Criteria

LAN Connectivity Guidelines

SAN Connectivity Guidelines

Storage Design Guidelines

eDirectory Design Guidelines

Cluster Design Guidelines

Installation Requirements for BCC

Getting a Business Continuity Clustering License

Downloading Business Continuity Clustering Software

Minimum System Requirements

Open Enterprise Server 2018 SP2

SLP

Small Footprint CIM Broker and CIMOM

Novell Cluster Services for Linux

eDirectory 9.2.1

Identity Manager 4.8

Storage-Related Plug-Ins for iManager 3.2.1

Shared Disk Systems

Mirroring Shared Disk Systems between Peer Clusters

LUN Masking for Shared Devices

Ports

Installing Business Continuity Clustering

Overview of the BCC Installation and Configuration

Installing iManager and Identity Manager on One Node in Each Peer Cluster

Configuring a BCC Administrator User and Group

Installing and Configuring the Business Continuity Clustering Software

Installing the BCC Cluster Resource Template

Configuring the Device Rescan for BCC Migration of Resources

Using a YaST Auto-Configuration File to Install and Configure Business Continuity Clustering Software

Configuring the Identity Manager Drivers for BCC

Understanding the BCC Drivers

Prerequisites for Configuring the BCC Drivers for Identity Manager

Creating the BCC Driver Set

Creating a BCC Driver for a BCC Driver Set

Enabling or Disabling the Synchronization of Email Settings

Synchronizing Identity Manager Drivers

Changing the Identity Manager Synchronization Drivers

Configuring BCC for Peer Clusters

Enabling Clusters for Business Continuity

Adding Peer Cluster Credentials

Adding Search-and-Replace Values to the Resource Replacement Script

Enabling Linux POSIX File Systems to Run on Secondary Clusters

Verifying BCC Administrator User Trustee Rights and Credentials

Disabling BCC for a Peer Cluster

Configuring BCC for Cluster Resources

Requirements for Cluster Resources

BCC-Enabling Cluster Resources

Configuring Search-and-Replace Values for an Individual Cluster Resource

Adding BCC Load and Unload Scripts

Assigning Preferred Peer Clusters for the Resource

Assigning Preferred Nodes in Peer Clusters

Disabling BCC for a Cluster Resource

Deleting or Unsharing a BCC-Enabled Shared NSS Pool Resource

Permanently Relocating a Cluster Resource to a Peer Cluster

Renaming a BCC-Enabled Pool or Volume

Managing a Business Continuity Cluster

Migrating a Cluster Resource to a Peer Cluster

Bringing a Downed Cluster Back in Service

Changing Peer Cluster Credentials

Viewing the Current Status of a Business Continuity Cluster

Generating a Cluster Report

Resolving Business Continuity Cluster Failures

Troubleshooting Business Continuity Clustering

Identity Manager

BCC-Enabled Cluster Resources

BCC Startup Flags

BCC Error Codes

Security Considerations

Security Features

Security Configuration

General Security Guidelines

Security Information for Dependent Products

Console Commands for BCC

Using Console Commands

Setting Up Linux Scan Commands in /opt/novell/ncs/bin/device_scan.sh

Configuration Worksheet for the BCC Drivers for Identity Manager

Cluster1 to Cluster2

Cluster2 to Cluster1

Setting Up Auto-Failover

Enabling Auto-Failover

Creating an Auto-Failover Policy

Refining the Auto-Failover Policy

Adding or Editing Monitor Configurations

Configuring Host-Based File System Mirroring for NSS Pools

Creating and Mirroring NSS Pools on Shared Storage

Creating NSS Volumes

Novell Cluster Services Configuration and Setup

Checking NSS Volume Mirror Status

Using Dynamic DNS with BCC

Requirements and Assumptions

Configuring the DNS Server for Dynamic DNS

Configuring the Cluster Resources for Dynamic DNS

Testing the Dynamic DNS Solution

Using Virtual IP Addresses with BCC

Understanding Internal Virtual IP Networks

Virtual IP Address Benefits

Planning a Virtual IP Network Implementation

Configuring a Virtual Router with OSPF

Configuring Virtual IP Addresses

Upgrading to Identity Manager 4.8

Requirements for Using Identity Manager

Upgrading to Identity Manager 4.8

Patching IDM 4.8 for OES 2018 SP2

Upgrading to BCC 2.6 on OES 2018 SP2

System Requirements for the BCC

Upgrading to BCC 2.6

Documentation Updates

May 2020

September 21, 2013