Who provides the VCS agents ?
The blow mentioned resource agents are shipped along with VCS. If the agents are not starting then ,you need to contact Symantec to fix the issue.
and many more.
Symantec also provides additional developed agents to support various applications on VCS. For an example,you want to cluster the SAP application ,you need a SAP agents .But in some cases original software vendor will provide the agents for VCS(independent software vendor ISV).
What are the VCS agents Properties?
2.An agent runs a single operation on a resource at one time.
3.Agents can perform operation on multiple resources of the same type in parallel.
4.If there are no resource of a particular type anywhere in the cluster,the agent for that type is not started.
5.A resource cannot be managed without an agent.
What are the VCS agents functions ?
2.Stop a specified program
3.Monitor the program
4.Clean up after a fault.
The failover of a service group fails, and hastatus -sum shows that an agent is ‘failed‘ on the system the service group is to failover to.
-- AGENTS FAILED
-- Type System
I IPMultiNIC node1
# haagent -start IPMultiNIC -sys node1
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