What is a Solaris Cluster Agent?
A Solaris Cluster agent is a k-sh script, a C-program, or a binary that manages the availability of an application. The agent starts, stops, monitors the health of the application, and takes corrective action to regain application availability upon failure. Applications do not need to be modified to benefit from the enhanced availability offered by the Solaris Cluster agent. Applications can run either directly on Solaris on a physical system , in logical domains, in dynamic domains or within Solaris Containers. The Solaris Cluster development team, as well as other third-party software vendors, have created tailored agents for popular applications such as Java Enterprise System applications, Oracle, Siebel, SAP, Sybase, MySQL, Apache and many others. If your application does not have an available tailored agent, you can create your own using the Solaris Cluster Agent Builder (included with the Solaris Cluster software). This agent builder has an easy to use, “wizard” graphical user in
