Re: ChannelArchiver on Solaris?

[Matthias Clausen <Matthias.Clausen@desy.de>]

Hi Ralph,

we can give you the details for sure.
Igor will contact you on Monday.

The main reason for running the archiver on Solaris is the fact that 
there's no better way to run a cluster then on Solaris.
The archiver is a key component for our control system. So we run the 
archiver on the cluster. It runs on the active node and there are 
scripts which start/ stop the archivers in case of a cluster failover. 
-> not as a cluster resource!
Furthermore we are archiving into a RAID-5 array which itself is host 
based mirrored to a second RAID.
This works fine with Sun equipment.
I would be harder for sure to get the same kind of reliability on a 
Linux system
(expecting comments from our Linux gurus...)

Cheers
Matthias


Ralph Lange wrote:
> Hello Matthias,
>
> I heard from others they had to give up running the ChannelArchiver2 
> on Solaris, because getting the required libraries and tools running 
> on Solaris was close to impossible, and just getting a Linux box to 
> run the archiver on was a lot easier and less expensive.
>
> So - if yours works fine, it would be great to have the set of version 
> numbers for the required parts ... :-)
>
> Thanks a *lot*,
> Ralph
>
>
> On Fri 05 Mar 2010 14:23:44 Matthias Clausen wrote:
> > Hi Ralph,
> >
> > yes we're running the channel archiver on our Solaris cluster.
> > Do you have any specific question?
> >
> > Otherwise: It works fine for us ;-)) (this might not be the 
> > information you're looking for...)
> >
> > -Matthias
> >
> > Ralph Lange wrote:
> > > Is anybody using the ChannelArchiver on Solaris? Can you share your 
> > > experiences?
> > >
> > > Thanks a lot,
> > > Ralph


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