1. Prolog
MCCS (Mantech Continuous Cluster Server) is a high-availability solution for mission-critical computing systems developed by Mantech.
MCCS is a high-availability solution that ensures the service availability of the mission-critical system so that enables you to monitor the health status of systems, application services, and to bring up the services on a redundant system when network, hardware, storage for software fails.
Normal business of companies in our current industries is conducted in computers, and most of the core information for this needs continuous service on a 24/7 basis.
The mission critical systems require no downtime server infrastructure, but you will meet many types of service failures which bring in negative business impacts. MCCS solves these problems and provides a high-availability solution for mission-critical systems.
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Features of MCCS
MCCS registers network cards, virtual IP addresses, processes, user programs, SCSILock disks, shared disks, mirror disks, windows services, Shared disk DR, VxVM disk group and Oracle database as resources for the management purposes.
Service Level Fault Detection and Automatic Failover
MCCS not only detect on hardware, but it also offers detection on resources (such as network connection, application, platform, disk, etc) as well.
Therefore, if managed resources are not working properly, it will be either restarted or failovered to the standby server according to the defined action policies.
Support External Shared Storage and Local Disk Replication Environment
MCCS supports both the copy environment of local disk and the shared disk environment.
Thus, it can enable users to select more flexible policies for implementation of highly available disk systems.
H/W compatibility
MCCS is a common solution not limited to specific H/W manufacturers or models.
Thus, there is no need to configure the IT service by using the same H/W for the nodes composing a cluster.
Remote Disaster Recovery
MCCS is a high availability that can be configured with no distance limitation between nodes.
That means standby server can be easily configured on a remote site without extra charge.
Provides the Management Web Console
MCCS allows user to use a web browser to control and manage MCCS from a local server or remote server. At each server, you can use the URL and login information to connect to the server where MCCS is configured. There is no need to configure an additional environment file.
Support Multi Group
A Group is a group of resources (ex. networks cards, IP addresses, disk, applications) that manage trouble monitoring, recovery and failovers in MCCS, based on the dependency.
It is the unit of resource group where failover occurs.Within a cluster, you can configure multiple groups. For this reason, you can make Active/Standby or Active/Active configurations. (Active/Active configuration means that each server operates different service.)
MCCS supports a failover group and a parallel group at the same time. In the multiple group environment, each group operates independently.