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Console Actions

From the Arcserve RHA for Microsoft Failover Cluster Console, you can perform various actions to help you manage and monitor replication status. The Actions available depend on the selection you make from the Console. You may also access these options by right-clicking a level in the Console structure.

Console Level

• Open Cluster -- Provide a cluster name and click OK.
• View -- Click Customize to select the components to display on the Console screen and click OK.
• New Window from Here -- Opens a new Console window.
• Refresh -- Updates the display.
• Help -- Opens Console Help.

Cluster Level

• Add Arcserve RHA Disk -- Opens the Add Disk dialog. Provide a Disk Name and optional volume and click OK.
• View -- Click Customize to select the components to display on the Console screen and click OK.
• New Window from Here -- Opens a new Console window.
• Refresh -- Updates the display.
• Help - Opens Console Help.

Disk Resource Level

• Runtime Status -- The Console lets you check Runtime Status of the disk resources in your cluster. Information including Replication Status, Engine Version, and Synchronization Status is provided.
• Settings -- You may set the following properties:
  • Synchronization Type -- File or Block Synchronization. File Synchronization is best suited for File Server applications and Block Synchronization is preferred for database applications.
  • Ignore Files of Same Size/Time -- On or Off. This setting is a filter that allows data comparison to consider only file size and modification time when determining whether two files differ. When set to On, files with the same path, name, size, and time are skipped. You should disable this property when Synchronization Type is Block Sync.
  • Replicate NTFS Compress Attribute -- On or Off. This setting replicates the compress attribute in files or directories during synchronization and replication.
  • Replicate ACL -- On or Off. This setting replicates ACLs for files and directories during synchronization or replication.
  • Replicate NTFS ADS -- On or Off.
  • Number of Streams -- Defaults to 1. In WAN environments with high bandwidth and latency, you may increase the Number of Streams to improve utilization. Click the drop-down arrow to set the value or specify it in the ws_rep.cfg file.
• Edit Arcserve RHA Disk Resource -- Rename an existing disk resource, set the optional volume or change it and click OK. You must take the disk resource offline to edit it.
• Rescan cluster nodes for this resource -- Do this when you add or eject host nodes to and from the cluster.
• Force a data synchronization -- Lets you perform immediate synchronization.
• Online Arcserve RHA Disk Resource -- Lets you bring a disk resource online. Synchronization between source and destination nodes is automatically performed and data changes on the source node are replicated in real time to the destination node. Progress is displayed on the Runtime Status pane.
• Offline Arcserve RHA Disk Resource -- Lets you take a disk resource offline so you can edit it. Data replication is stopped while the dis resource is offline.
• View -- Group by Role or Group by Topology. Role lets you view disks by status. Topology lets you see which disks are assigned to which sites.
• New Window from Here -- Opens a new screen.
• Delete -- Lets you remove a disk resource.
• Rename -- Lets you change the name of the disk resource. The highlight bar changes to a rectangle and a cursor is enabled.
• Help -- Opens Cluster help.

Node Level

• View -- Click Customize to select the components to display on the Console screen and click OK.
• New Window from Here -- Opens a new Console window.
• Help -- Opens Console Help.