sc-watchdog Configuration

adding required system config parameters navigate to administration > system config man enter the following fields parameter name definition description sample value netright job master instance name instance name master instance parameter for the controller region it must be the same as the one defined in netright properties singleconnect 1 netright job master instance name $region name instance name master instance parameter for the controlled region it must be the same as the one defined in netright properties $region name should be replaced with the defined region name in the instance controller page singleconnect 1 watchdog check attempt num integer number of times the watchdog should check the status before initiating the failover scenario 10 watchdog check interval integer how often the watchdogs should communicate with each other (second) 300 watchdog interregion communication boolean the default value is false if the parameter value is changed to true, instance acknowledgments are accessible from within regions and the whole environment false watchdog stop sapm jobs after down instance boolean true/false the default value is false if changed to true, the watchdog application will do the following checks if the status of a master instance is down, or if the watchdog of a master instance is unavailable, or if the replication status is not active for one of the master instances, enabled sapm jobs are disabled for all instances in the environment after these undesired conditions are eliminated, the disabled sapm jobs are changed back to enabled to trigger watchdog does not interfere with activity jobs, only changes their status in the database when the status of these jobs is disabled, they are not executed they are only executed when the status is set to “enabled” again configuring application properties file create ssh connection to the instance navigate to /u01/watchdog/config edit application properties file with vi edit the following parameters field sample value definition logging file watchdog log this parameter indicates the logging file the parameter value must be watchdog log server port 8082 this parameter indicates the port for watchdog service the parameter value must be 8082 netright baseurl https //localhost this parameter is the netright baseurl definition this must be https //localhost watchdog instancename sconnect 1 it is the name of the instance that needs to be added the instance name must be the same as the name in netright properties file server address 10 20 30 40 instance ip