Symantec Veritas 5 - Manual (Page 17)

About VCS features
You can use the Veritas Installation Assessment Service to assess your setup for
VCS installation.
See “Veritas Installation Assessment Service” on page 17.
VCS offers the following features that you can configure during VCS configuration:
See “About VCS notifications” on page 17. VCS notifications
See “About global clusters” on page 17. VCS global clusters
See “About I/O fencing” on page 18. I/O fencing
Veritas Installation Assessment Service
The Veritas Installation Assessment Service (VIAS) utility assists you in getting
ready for a Veritas Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions installation
or upgrade. The VIAS utility allows the preinstallation evaluation of a
configuration, to validate it prior to starting an installation or upgrade.
https://vias.symantec.com/
About VCS notifications
You can configure both SNMP and SMTP notifications for VCS. Symantec
recommends you to configure one of these notifications. You have the following
options:
■ Configure SNMP trap notification of VCS events using the VCS Notifier
component
■ Configure SMTP email notification of VCS events using the VCS Notifier
component.
See the Veritas Cluster Server User’s Guide.
About global clusters
Global clusters provide the ability to fail over applications between geographically
distributed clusters when disaster occurs. You require a separate license to
configure global clusters. You must add this license during the installation. The
installer only asks about configuring global clusters if you have used the global
cluster license.
See the Veritas Cluster Server User's Guide.
17 Introducing Veritas Cluster Server
About VCS features