Understanding and Using FCPUTIL |
FCPUTIL is a FirstClass Protocol utility designed to check the status of the server and perform some commands related to maintaining the server. This document and tech note will show you how to setup, configure and use FCPUTIL to schedule a server mirror Pause or snapshot Hold so you can successfully schedule your FirstClass server backups.
There are some major advantages of using FCPUTIL over other options such as NET Pause or fcsctl pause:
FCPUTIL can return the status of an action. Therefore a script can be constructed to deal with the returned status.
It supports considerably more functions than the NET command's STOP, PAUSE, and CONTINUE.
It is both network-based and platform-independent, so it can be run from a different machine than the one hosting the server, and even a different platform.
