Seems that something went terribly wrong with Autostart configuration database. Did you meake sure that all the nodes are down and then start one node? Usually that helps. If you had an expoert of your configuration (as you should), you can always start from scratch and import back the configuration. On UNIX it would suffice to run ft_setup again and reset the Autostart domain, but I am sure there is a way to do it on Windows although reinstall essentially does the same thing.
As for getting access to the volume that is managed by the mirror data source, you need to delete the drive configuration from HKLM/CurrentControlSet/Services/VincaMV/Parameters if my memory serves me right. After a reboot you will have access to your drive. Deleting the mirror data source does the same thing, but sometimes as you found out that is not possible.
Hope this helps - in any case the problem you saw is not common, and the Autostart version you are running is a bit dated.
In Windows I know of the ftcli, that can be used to export and import the domain configuration. But I have never seen any rulemanager configuration settings in the export, seems to be stored in the AS internal database. It looks as if the windows implementation deviates at that point - there is no ft_setup, a feasible shortcut would be to generate a domain export when it is still good, when it fails uninstall and reinstall, then reimport the previously known good configuration.
The registry key is a great idea and I gave you full points for that.
tribicic
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August 17th, 2011 03:00
Tobias,
Seems that something went terribly wrong with Autostart configuration database. Did you meake sure that all the nodes are down and then start one node? Usually that helps. If you had an expoert of your configuration (as you should), you can always start from scratch and import back the configuration. On UNIX it would suffice to run ft_setup again and reset the Autostart domain, but I am sure there is a way to do it on Windows although reinstall essentially does the same thing.
As for getting access to the volume that is managed by the mirror data source, you need to delete the drive configuration from HKLM/CurrentControlSet/Services/VincaMV/Parameters if my memory serves me right. After a reboot you will have access to your drive. Deleting the mirror data source does the same thing, but sometimes as you found out that is not possible.
Hope this helps - in any case the problem you saw is not common, and the Autostart version you are running is a bit dated.
TobiasRittmeier
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August 17th, 2011 04:00
Tom,
thanks for the incredible quick reply.
In Windows I know of the ftcli, that can be used to export and import the domain configuration. But I have never seen any rulemanager configuration settings in the export, seems to be stored in the AS internal database. It looks as if the windows implementation deviates at that point - there is no ft_setup, a feasible shortcut would be to generate a domain export when it is still good, when it fails uninstall and reinstall, then reimport the previously known good configuration.
The registry key is a great idea and I gave you full points for that.
Kind regards,
Tobias