Update Method

The RGM calls the Update method of a resource type implementation to apply any changes that were made by the cluster administrator to the configuration of the active resource. The Update method is only called on nodes (if any) where the resource is currently online.

The changes that have just been made to the resource configuration are guaranteed to be acceptable to the resource type implementation because the RGM runs the Validate method of the resource type before it runs the Update method. The Validate method is called before the resource or resource group properties are changed, and the Validate method can veto the proposed changes. The Update method is called after the changes have been applied to give the active (online) resource the opportunity to take notice of the new settings.

You must carefully determine the properties that you want to be able to update dynamically, and mark those with the TUNABLE = ANYTIME setting in the RTR file. Typically, you can specify that you want to be able to dynamically update any property of a resource type implementation that the fault monitor daemon uses. However, the implementation of the Update method must at least restart the monitor daemon.

Possible properties that you can use are as follows:

• Thorough_probe_interval

• Retry_count

• Retry_interval

• Monitor_retry_count

• Monitor_retry_interval

• Probe_timeout

These properties affect the way a fault monitor daemon checks the health of the service, how often the daemon performs checks, the history interval that the daemon uses to keep track of the errors, and the restart thresholds that are set by the PMF. To implement updates of these properties, the utility scds_pmf_restart() is provided in the DSDL.

If you need to be able to dynamically update a resource property, but the modification of that property might affect the running application, you need to implement the correct actions. You must ensure that the updates to that property are correctly applied to any running instances of the application. Currently, you cannot use the DSDL to dynamically update a resource property in this way. You cannot pass the modified properties to Update on the command line (as you can with Validate).