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| JosephGramig |
 Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2018 9:28 am Post subject: mqsilist -a on passive PowerHA node |
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On a passive PowerHA node, if the brokers were added, shouldn't:
mqsilist -a
list all the brokers even though the file systems are not mounted?
dspmq
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Just looking for a sanity check. |
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| abhi_thri |
| Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2018 12:05 am Post subject: |
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hi...we got an active/passive config on RedHat and it shows the same stats on the passive node,
mqsilist -a returns
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| BIP1281I: No integration nodes have been defined on this machine. |
dspmq returns
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QMNAME(XXX) STATUS(Status not available)
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| JosephGramig |
| Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2018 4:30 am Post subject: |
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Well that is unfortunate...
If they were added, then it should say "Not available" like MQ. MQ puts entries in the /var/mqm/mqs.ini file. I wonder where IIB puts that stuff... Time for a Google... |
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| JosephGramig |
| Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2018 4:58 am Post subject: |
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Hmmm, this is proving more difficult than I thought. I will have to gain access to the actual system and find the file in question... It should have the data path in it...
It should be some file down /var/mqsi/...
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| abhi_thri |
| Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2018 4:58 am Post subject: |
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hi...IIB puts the HA folder path at this file,
<WorkPath>/registry/<NodeName>/HASharedWorkPath |
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| JosephGramig |
| Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2018 8:13 am Post subject: |
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Yes, thx and I see this is true.
Too bad mqsilist does not respond with "not available" when the file systems are not mounted like MQ does... |
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| gbaddeley |
| Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2018 5:12 pm Post subject: Re: mqsilist -a on passive PowerHA node |
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| JosephGramig wrote: |
On a passive PowerHA node, ...
dspmq
returns "Not Available".
Just looking for a sanity check. |
'Not Available' means that the dspmq command could not access the qmgr's directory to look at qmstatus.ini and whatever else it does.
This is the normal response on the passive node of a PowerHA cluster, because the qmgr's file system is mounted on the active node.
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| JosephGramig |
| Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2018 4:14 am Post subject: Re: mqsilist -a on passive PowerHA node |
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| gbaddeley wrote: |
| JosephGramig wrote: |
On a passive PowerHA node, ...
dspmq
returns "Not Available".
Just looking for a sanity check. |
'Not Available' means that the dspmq command could not access the qmgr's directory to look at qmstatus.ini and whatever else it does.
This is the normal response on the passive node of a PowerHA cluster, because the qmgr's file system is mounted on the active node. |
Duh. And I want mqsilist to do the same...
So I see that I can just add the entries to the mqs.ini file to add Qmgrs that are HA without actually failing over the PowerHA components causing an outage.
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hi...IIB puts the HA folder path at this file,
<WorkPath>/registry/<NodeName>/HASharedWorkPath
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So I can just add these entries for two more I want to add? Or will the mqsiaddbrokerinstance work without PowerHA being failed over and the broker path not actually available?
The documentation does not say it needs to be failed over.
I know it is terrible to add HA components without testing them but this is where I am... |
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| gbaddeley |
| Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2018 4:31 pm Post subject: Re: mqsilist -a on passive PowerHA node |
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| JosephGramig wrote: |
| So I see that I can just add the entries to the mqs.ini file to add Qmgrs that are HA without actually failing over the PowerHA components causing an outage. |
Yes. There is a documented command to do this, addmqinf.
The arguments for addmqinf are generated by running the 'dspmqinf -o command QMGRNAME' command on the active node.
Sorry, I can't speak for IIB.
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| abhi_thri |
| Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2018 11:22 pm Post subject: |
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| JosephGramig wrote: |
So I can just add these entries for two more I want to add? Or will the mqsiaddbrokerinstance work without PowerHA being failed over and the broker path not actually available?
The documentation does not say it needs to be failed over.
I know it is terrible to add HA components without testing them but this is where I am...
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mqsiaddbrokerinstance should set the HA path fine, can't you test this out by adding the node initially to your Test cluster and see whether it fails over as expected?
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| JosephGramig |
| Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2018 7:02 am Post subject: |
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I'm in one of those situations where I'm explaining to some one how to do this via coffee cans and string. Also with a blind fold on... Probably better to not see...
I believe the last time I tried the addmqinf command, it required the file systems to actually be present (which is why you have to fail it over to do it).
I don't know I've ever tried the mqsiaddbrokerinstance without failing it over as I tend to do that to test it as well.
In this case, it has all been setup but incorrectly and now I'm explaining how to fix it. |
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