Installing and Configuring Tiebreaker
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Upgrading Tiebreaker
This section describes how to upgrade an existing installed Tiebreaker configuration that supports
the 7700 Controllers in a 7700 FSP storage cluster. Download the Violin Tiebreaker RPM (Red Hat
Package Manager) from the Violin Systems Customer Support website, by completing the
following:
1.
Using a supported Web browser, navigate to the Customer Support portal at:
http://www.violinsystems.com/support
2.
Log into Violin Support using your
Username
and
Password
.
3.
On the
Customer
Support
page, click
Software Downloads
.
4.
In the left navigation pane, click
Folders > Concerto OS7 Flash Storage Platform
>
Concerto OS
<release_version>
.
Send an SNMP heartbeat trap to monitor the Tiebreaker SNMP daemon: no
Start monitoring the failover pair: yes
In a split-brain scenario, activate the policy to force a node to take
over its partner when all communications from Tiebreaker to that partner
node have failed: yes
Can't open lock file /usr/local/tiebreaker/etc/vt2500-3/
.ipstor.conf.lock - 2
Can't open lock file /usr/local/tiebreaker/etc/vt2500-33/
.ipstor.conf.lock - 2
Saving Tiebreaker configuration...
The configuration was saved.
[root@Tiebreaker-vt2 ~]# tiebreakerstatus -s vt2500-3_vt2500-33
====== vt2500-3_vt2500-33 ======
------ Status ------
Tiebreaker Monitor Status
OK
Primary Health,Secondary Health
OK,OK
Power Control Type,State
IPMI
Storage Cluster Interlink Latency
OK
Mirror Sync Status
Mirror in-sync
Primary Failover Status
Up
Primary Management Connection
OK
Secondary Management Connection
OK
====== vt2500-33_vt2500-3 ======
------ Status ------
Tiebreaker Monitor Status
OK
Primary Health,Secondary Health
OK,OK
Power Control Type,State
IPMI
Storage Cluster Interlink Latency
OK
Mirror Sync Status
Mirror in-sync
Primary Failover Status
Up
Primary Management Connection
OK
Secondary Management Connection
OK
[root@Tiebreaker-vt2 ~]#
