Setting up the engine and services tier resources for high availability (Microsoft example)

You set up the engine and services tier Generic Service resources and a DSHARestart Generic Script resource.

About this task

For information on how to create Generic service resources and set dependencies as indicated in the following procedure, refer to Tech Note 1591193.

Procedure

In the Failover Cluster Manager:

  1. Select to add a Generic Service resource for each of the engine tier services: ASBAgent, DSTelnet, DSEngine and DSRPC.
  2. Select to add a Generic Service resource for Db2 service, Db2 - Db2.OPY - Db2.0 and Websphere service, IBMWAS70Service - hostnameNode01
  3. Select Generic Script resource and add the supplied installdir\InformationServer\HAScripts\DSHARestart.vbs script.
  4. For each of the resources you just created, set up dependencies as indicated in the following table.
    Resource Depends on
    ASBAgent Clustered Disk, IP Address, and WebSphere service
    DSTelnet Clustered Disk, IP Address, DSEngine
    DSRPC Clustered Disk, IP Address, DSHARestart Generic Script
    DSEngine Clustered Disk, IP Address, ASBAgent
    DSHARestart Clustered Disk, IP Address, DSEngine
    Db2 service Clustered Disk and IP address
    WebSphere service Clustered Disk, IP address and Db2 generic service