                                             Product Manual(text)

H.A. Technical Solutions, LCC

An unscheduled business interruption due to a failed server can create irrecoverable financial loss to your enterprise.

You owe it to your organization to investigate H.A. Technical Solutions, a cost-effective second generation fault tolerant management system. Whoever has their system up all the time gets all the business.

Keep the beat...

with High Availability

THE LEADING EDGE ON HIGH AVAILABILITY

H.A. Technical Solutions, LCC provides a cost-effective, reliable and efficient mission-critical information system which achieves 99.99% up-time. Implementing multiple active servers for your RDBMS applications. The low cost solution to safeguard your enterprise with a virtually non-stop integrated service.

OPEN SYSTEM SOLUTION

Runs on all models of SUN SPARC-based computer systems running SUN OS, SOLARIS, or PC running X86 and maintains all features of the hardware and software.

FAILSAFE ARCHITECTURE

Automatic fault tolerant assurance. Fault isolation and service resumption procedures are taken automatically.

USER FRIENDLY

Management utilities are graphic and menu driven. Only 20 minutes to install with no script programming; just fill in the table.

API INTERFACE

Monitors health of RDBMS for ORACLE, SYBASE, INFORMIX AND INGRES.

FLEIBLE & RELIABLE

User chooses the type of backup, either hot standby, active server or a number of active servers.

AUTOMATIC RECONNECT

Complete recovery of all applications upon failover. A server can reclaim its original services or become a backup server.

GDT - DIALING TOOL

A customized program that notifies the IS Manager of a system failover.

PRODUCT SUPPORT

Our experienced personnel are available to handle your mission-critical information questions.

For other operating system support or for API contract development, please contact H.A. Technical Solutions, LCC, at (612) 221-1661 or (800) 577-0981, or contact us by email at info@tech-sol.com

Features

H.A. maintains all Sparc, Solaris and applications features.
Servers do not need to be the same model or configuration.
H.A. supports all RDBMS systems and stateless applications.
Fast detection of fault conditions within 5 seconds.
Fast failover and applications recovery time of 10 to 120 seconds.
Flexible server configuration user can select any number of active servers and choose either failover to standby or active server.
Servers either active or in standby mode can be running applications.
Failover to an active server or to a standby server does not require re-booting.
Clients reconnect to standby server or alternate active server automatically after failover.
H.A. has a GUI status display for quick identification of server status and application status.
H.A. has a point and click administration tools.
Detail status and history windows are available for trouble shooting or for detailed status monitoring.
ONS (On-line Network Suite) provides for redundant network configurations within a server so if a network failure occurs, HA can reroute traffic within server instead of triggering a failover to alternate server.
GDT (Geni Dialing Tool) is the automatic phone or pager notification system that is triggered when a failure event takes place.
API (Applications Process Interface) is our programmable interface which enables the user to write a program to monitor the health of the applications and trigger a failover if the application is corrupted.

Requirements

Platform: SUN server, SUN workstations or compatible or PC.
Operating System: Sun OS, Solaris 1.X, 2.X or X86.
Operating Systems: Must be the same release of the operating system on each server.
System Memory: 8 MB
Internal Disk Storage: 15 MB For H.A.
External Disk Storage: One or more shared disks or disk arrays with one of the following interfaces: SCSI I/II, IPI, Fiber, Disk suite is supported.
Network: One or more per system of the following in any combination: Ethernet, Token Ring, Fiber Channel, FDDI or UTP. Additional network types under development.

Client/ Server Applications Supported

Any RDBMS.
Any stateless applications.

Client / Server Application Supported with API

ORACLE
SYBASE
INFORMIX
NFS
NIS

For information about H.A. Technical Solutions, LCC, please contact us at (612) 221-1661 or (800) 577-0981, or contact us by email at info@tech-sol.com