G.0 Revision History

The following table outlines all the changes that have been made to the Novell® Cluster Services SDK documentation (in reverse chronological order).

Revision Date

Changes

May 2009

The VFS implementation is available on Novell Open Enterprise Server 2 SP1 Linux and later with BCC 1.2 for Linux.

February 2009

Added monitorInfo and monitorScript to createClusterResource.

October 2008

Added Section 7.0, Resource Templates.

June 2008

Fixed broken links.

Transitioned to revised Novell documentation standards.

October 17, 2007

Added NCS_ScanForNewDevices.

Added note to Section 1.0, Development Overview and to NCS_FindVirtualServer that all Unicode return values are UTF8 strings on Linux.

October 11, 2006

Fixed formatting of example in Perl Script Control Sample.

Fixed a minor spelling error in NCS_ResourceControl.

Removed broken link in Section 3.1.1, NCS Requirements for NetWare 5.x

March 1, 2006

Fixed broken links.

October 5, 2005

Transitioned to revised Novell documentation standards.

Updated Section B.0, Novell Business Continuity Cluster and Section C.0, Using Command Line Perl to Manage Cluster Services.

Updated various binary files to enable Linux clustering.

March 2, 2005

Fixed broken links and revised documentation to facilitate management on the Novell Forge development site.

October 6, 2004

Revised Cluster XML documentation for style.

Added a new Software Revision History section.

Fixed broken links.

June 9, 2004

Revised overall document structure.

Expanded documentation for Section A.3, Cluster Management Files.

Added new section on Business Continuity Cluster (BCC) XML files.

February 18, 2004

Began deprecation of all old XML files (see Section A.5, Deprecated XML Cluster Management Files (obsolete Feb. 2004)) and replaced with ClusterConfigCMD, ClusterManageCMD, and ClusterReportCMD (see Section A.3, Cluster Management Files).

Changed references to _ADMIN:Manager_Cluster to ADMIN\Novell\Cluster.

Added Section C.0, Using Command Line Perl to Manage Cluster Services.

Incorporated changes from technical review and fixed broken links.

October 8, 2003

Completed major edit of the entire document.

July 21, 2003

Refreshed software to fix a byte alignment problem that prevented the software from compiling properly when the development package was downloaded from the NDK.

Added a new chapter, Cluster Services Architecture.

Added Section A.0, Managing Novell Cluster Services Through XML—Describes how to enable an XML interface to manage cluster services on NetWare™ 6.5 or later.

Added new sample code files: 1) Cluster.pl, a Perl script example that demonstrates how to test XML cluster management operations, and 2) hmoldap.nlm, an example of how to write a health monitor object (HMO) for LDAP services, and 3) hmo.c, a generic HMO required to enable specific services (such as LDAP) in cluster environments.

June 11, 2003

Fixed some documentation bugs.

Added two new functions (for NetWare 6.5 only):

March, 2003

Added NCS_UpdateResource —Updates a resource, including load and unload scripts, but does not allow for changing the IP address of a volume resource.

Sample Code—Revised documentation link to Sample Code located in downloaded NDK directory.

September, 2002

Cluster Services Architecture Concept section —Revised illustrations and clarified cluster services architectural concepts.

NCS_FindVirtualServer Structures sections—Added new function, which finds a virtual server from a volume name.

May, 2002

Updated various document descriptions, graphics, and functions.

February, 2002

Added Novell Cluster Services Developer Kit as a new Leading Edge NDK component.