In addition to the bug fixes, Cluster Services provides the following enhancements and changes in OES 2018 SP3.
The following options are added to the SBD util command line. For more information on each of the options, see the SBD Utilityman page or Section A.4, SBD Utility.
sbdutil -Z: Use the entire device while creating a partition.
sbdutil -I: Initialize the entire SBD partition.
sbdutil -i: Initialize the SBD partition except the cluster event logs.
sbdutil -E: Backup the event logs.
sbdutil -v: View the used slots on the SBD partition.
sbdutil -E -k: Export the backed up cluster event logs in a raw format.
sbdutil -m: Restore the backed-up cluster event logs to a newly created SBD partition.
sbdutil -r -x: Export the logs in XML format.
sbdutil -r -j: Export the logs in json format.
sbdutil -r -u: Export the logs in CSV format.S
Beginning with OES 2018 SP3, the logrotate service is enabled to archive cluster monitor.out logs. The monitor.out files are compressed and saved in the system for 365 days. For more information, see Section 16.4, Log Files.
Beginning with OES 2018 SP3, a maximum of 1MB for the scripts is supported if the cluster is homogeneous with all the nodes being on OES 2018 SP3 and above. If it is a mixed node cluster with at least one node on a version lower than OES 2018 SP3, the script length is restricted to 3200 bytes/3.2KB. See section Section 10.1.4, Script Length Limits
Cluster maintenance < on | off > <expiry_time>: An expiry time can be set to automatically turn off the cluster maintenance mode. For more information,. For more information, see Section A.1, Cluster Management Commands
NSS resource migration in cluster is improved by the enhncement made in pool and volume deactivation. This reduces the time taken for cluster NSS resource migration.