• High Availability Guide
•  Introduction to solidDB® HotStandby
  • Key features of HotStandby
  •  HotStandby API (HSB admin commands)
    • Basic HotStandby server scheme
    • Server HotStandby states
    • Replication modes in HotStandby
    • Durability and logging
    • Load balancing of read-only workloads
    • HotStandby and SMA
    • HotStandby and advanced replication
  • Performance and HotStandby
  •  High Availability Controller (HAC)
    • Recognized failures
    • Controlling database server processes
    • External Reference Entity (ERE)
    • Networking in HAC
    • HAC logging
  • High Availability Manager (sample)
•  Getting started with HotStandby
  • HotStandby quick start procedure
  •  HotStandby with HAC quick start procedure
    • Starting and stopping HA Controller
  • Summary of startup sequences
•  Administering and configuring HotStandby
  •  Basics of HotStandby administration
    • Querying HotStandby configuration parameters
    • Modifying HotStandby configuration parameters
  •  Configuring HotStandby
    • Defining primary and secondary node HotStandby configuration
    • Setting HotStandby server wait time to help detect broken or unavailable connections
    • Defining transaction durability level
    • Defining name and location for HotStandby database operation
    • Defining primary server behavior during a secondary failure
    • Ensuring that Primary and Secondary parameter values are coordinated
    • Determining whether the Primary settings take precedence over the Secondary settings
  • Configuring HA Controller and HA Manager
  •  Administering HotStandby with ADMIN COMMANDs (HotStandby API)
    • Overview of administration tasks
    • Performing HotStandby recovery and maintenance
    • Switching server states
    • Shutting off HotStandby operations
    • Synchronizing primary and secondary servers
    • Connecting HotStandby servers
    • Checking HotStandby status
    • Verifying HotStandby server states
    • Choosing which server to make primary
    • Changing a HotStandby server to a non-HotStandby server
  •  Performance tuning
    • Tuning replication performance with safeness and durability levels
    • Tuning netcopy performance
    • Tuning database catchup performance
  •  Special considerations for using solidDB® with HotStandby
    • Transaction isolation level and in-memory tables
    • Network partitions and dual primaries
    • Running out of space for transaction logs
    • Throttling and multiprocessing in Secondary
  •  Configuring for lower cost versus higher safety
    • Reducing cost: N + 1 spare and N + M spares scenarios
    • Increasing reliability: 2N + 1 spare and 2N + M spare scenarios
    • How solidDB® HSB supports the N+1 (N+M) and 2N+1 (2N+M) approaches
    • Using HAC with spares
•  Using HotStandby with applications
  •  Connecting to HotStandby servers
    • Choosing the connectivity type
  •  Transparent Connectivity
    • Defining the Transparent Connectivity connection
    • Failure transparency in Transparent Connectivity
    • Load balancing in Transparent Connectivity
    • Handling TC Info contradictions
  •  Basic Connectivity
    • Reconnecting to primary servers from applications
    • Reconnecting to secondary servers
  •  Defining timeouts between applications and servers
    • Application read timeout option
    • Specifying -C option in the connect parameters
  • Configuring SMA with HotStandby
  • Configuring advanced replication with HotStandby
•  Failure handling with High Availability Controller (HAC)
  • Primary database fails
  • Secondary database fails
  • Primary node fails
  • Secondary node fails
  • HotStandby link fails
  • Server is unresponsive to external clients
•  Upgrading (migrating) HotStandby servers
  • Cold migration procedure
  • Hot migration procedure
  • Hot migration procedure using netcopy
•  HotStandby configuration parameters
  •  Server-side parameters
    • Cluster section
    • HotStandby section
  •  Client-side parameters
    • Com section
    • TransparentFailover section
  • High Availability Controller (HAC) parameters
  • High Availability Manager (HAM) configuration parameters
  •  Configuration file examples
    • The solid.ini configuration file
    • The solidhac.ini configuration file
    • The HAManager.ini configuration file
•  Error codes for HotStandby
  • HotStandby errors and status codes
  • High Availability Controller errors and status codes
  • solidDB® database errors for HotStandby
  • solidDB® table errors
  • solidDB® communication errors
•  HotStandby and HAC ADMIN COMMANDs
  • HotStandby commands (ADMIN COMMAND)
  • High Availability Controller commands (ADMIN COMMAND)
•  Server state transitions
  • HotStandby state transition diagram
• HotStandby system events
•  Watchdog sample
  •  HotStandby configuration using Watchdog
    • How the Watchdog application works
    • System design issues
    • Watchdog configuration
    • Using the sample Watchdog application
  •  Failure situations and Watchdog actions
    • Primary is down
    • Secondary is down
    • Watchdog is down
    • Communication link between Primary and Secondary is down
    • Communication link between the Watchdog and Primary is down
    • Communication link between the Watchdog and Secondary is down
    • Communication links between the Watchdog and Primary, and between the Primary and Secondary, are down Scenario
    • Communication links between the Watchdog and Secondary, and between the Primary and Secondary, are down
  • Watchdog section of the solid.ini configuration file