Version 4.0

Enhancements, bug fixes, and other changes in EFM 4.0 include:

Type

Description

Enhancement

Properties were renamed. See the table that follows for details. If you use the upgrade utility to upgrade your Failover Manager installation, they are automatically updated.

Enhancement

The property value for the encrypted database password needs to be updated to meet the new hashing algorithm. The upgrade tool will make the required changes. When creating the properties file manually, you can use the standard procedure for encrypting the password instead.

Enhancement

Encryption for database password was improved. Encryption was also enabled for communication between the agents.

Enhancement

Standby servers are no longer stopped while selecting the new primary. This enhancement significantly speeds up the promotion process.

Enhancement

To be consistent with community naming guidelines, the term master was replaced with primary in the Failover Manager product and documentation. The upgrade-conf tool handles the task of renaming the impacted properties post upgrade. The load balancer scripts such as script.load.balancer.attach, script.load.balancer.detach now accept the character p instead of m as an argument.

Enhancement

Support was added to delay the restart of standbys after a promotion. You can increase the availability by staggering the restart of standbys.

Bug Fix

Documentation was updated to aid users who use tmpfs mount points for /var/run and /var/lock [Support Ticket #977437]

Bug Fix

An IDLE agent will attempt to resume monitoring when other agents can reach its database. [Support Ticket #1001533]

EFM properties changes

Former name

New name

pingServerCommand

ping.server.command

stop.isolated.master

top.isolated.primary

stop.failed.master

stop.failed.primary

master.shutdown.as.failure

primary.shutdown.as.failure

reconfigure.sync.master

reconfigure.sync.primary

script.master.isolated

script.primary.isolated

If you’re using a load balancer script, the ‘%t’ placeholder is replaced with p for primary rather than m.