If, like me you have gathered quite a list of clusters in your Veritas Cluster Monitor java proggie on Windows, you will likely be frustrated with the manual way you have to order them.
Here is a method to re-order them alphabetically, providing you have a UNIX server you can run a quick script on.
Stop your Vertitas Cluster Monitor program and copy the .vxcsClusterPrefs file in your Windows home directory to a convenient UNIX server and run the following script there:
infile=.vxcsClusterPrefs
tmpfile=vxcs.entries
tmpfile2=tmpprefs
cat $infile | grep vacs.cluster | awk -F= '{print $2}' | sort > $tmpfile
cat $infile | sed '/vxcs.cluster/d' > $tmpfile2
count=1
cat $tmpfile | while read line
do
echo "vxcs.cluster.${count}=$line"
((count=count+1))
done >> $tmpfile2
mv $tmpfile2 $infile
rm $tmpfile |
Now move the .vxcsClusterPrefs file back to your Windows home directory overwriting the original.
When you restart your Veritas Cluster Monitor the clusters should be sorted a little more nicely.
I’m sure some sed/awk god could distill this into a much smaller bit of code, but this works for me 🙂
