Clustered solutions.

All,

Anyone running OW Xe on clustered W2K, SQL2000 boxes?

My client has an installation that has a shared SAN for OW and SQL. Services are correctly configured on each node and Cluster Administrator fail's over successfully. Any established OW sessions receive the connection lost box, but are able to reconnect and continue working. OW and SQL are each configured as a separate server i.e. SQL is is DB server (OW).

The issue we're encounter is for any new sessions that attempt to connect to OW when node2 is running the services (i.e. when it has failed over). The standard JDE0000007 - security server msgbox is displayed.

Security server configurations have been checked, but nothing springs to mind.

Any suggestions are appreciated.

ow_developer
MSCS W2K, SQL2KEnt, SP18.1, OWXe

OW_developer,
the cluster setup you are using (active/active) is somewhat tricky.
When the OW services fail over the cluster software shuts down the
jdenet/jdeque services first. It is a known issue that Windows reports
the services to be down when actually some killqueue processes are still
running. If you dismount your file system with the JDE files at this
point you may have trouble when you switch back later to the original
node. The trick is to wait (sleep) for 30 seconds between taking down the
JDE services and dismounting the file system.
When you fail over your database, you have to take care that you take
down the JDE services as well, start the database first on the other node
and then start the services again. A client that loses a database
connection can reconnect. JDE services don´t do that on their own.
The Security Server in the servers JDE.INI file must be the cluster name,
not any individual node´s name.

Hope this helped, Gerd

See if this is applicable:

Special Instructions for the SAR 5122082 (First included in Update 3)

Customers who wish to take advantage of
cluster retry capability for individual
data sources will need this software update
and SP16.
.
To turn on cluster retry capabilities,
you must check the box labeled 'Clustered'
in the Data Source Revisions application
(P986115) for those logical data sources
that are clustered.