Disabling A Site

[Robert Milfajt]

We have a site on our test box which is a copy of production, mostly used to migrate changes forward to production.  However, from time to time, the monitor daemon is started and this causes a battery of alerts to fire off which tends to be a nuiscance.

Does anyone know of a way to disable the starting of the monitord and/or lockd for a particular site on a box?

Right now we are 3.8.1P (AIX 5.2), but are going to 5.5 rev1 (AIX 5.3) so advice on either platform would be welcome.

Thanks,

Bob

Robert Milfajt
Northwestern Medicine
Chicago, IL

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[Rob Abbott]

You could rename/delete the default.alrt file in this site – that will prevent any alerts from firing if monitord was ever started.

Rob Abbott
Cloverleaf Emeritus

[Richard Hart]

Bob.

We have many sites and our ‘standard’ is for the config file to be

NetConfig – the site is in use

NetConfig.disabled – the site is disabled.

We have a script that returns all ‘active’ sites for autostart and housekeeping tasks and our ‘startSite.sh’ script will not start a disabled site.

If we have a site which should not be used, we ‘disable’ the siteInfo file

ie

mv siteInfo siteInfo.disabled

This make the setsite command fail.

[Robert Milfajt]

Rob, I did that for now, but since this NetConfig contains production definitions, I really want to avoid the daemons and processes from starting up.

Richard, I like your idea and will give it a try.

Thanks,

Bob

Robert Milfajt
Northwestern Medicine
Chicago, IL

[Ed Mastascusa]

Robert,

I’m not sure if this does 100% of what you want, but you can disable the engine and monitor daemon at startup by configuring a “very big” minfreediskspace in the site’s siteInfo file.

When you set minfreediskspace sufficiently large the engine / monitor daemon for the site will terminate on start up as shown below. However, the lock manager will run.

here’s what I got on a site where I set minfreediskspace=10000000000

hcisitectl -S

Starting hcimonitord

hcimonitord failed to execute properly

in the hcimonitord.log file

/hci/qdx5.5/integrator/vanilla’s File System is too full; there must be more than 4194303MB free

[Robert Milfajt]

The same effect happens with Richard’s suggestion.  From Unix nothing starts up and it errors out.  From the GUI, you cannot even pick the site.  Thanks for the suggestion though…

Bob

TGIF  8)

Robert Milfajt
Northwestern Medicine
Chicago, IL

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