How to "Reload Domain" via Java / Command line

Question

Hi,
I am looking for a way to do the same as the button "Reload Domain" in enterprise manager does, but I need to do it from command line or from java.
We have multiple CMSDK nodes running on different servers. As the ifsctl command runs into very long timeouts if any of the servers is unavailable, we implemented a small java service that's deactivating all nodes in the node configuration table if the servers becomes unavailable. We need this as we have only a very tight timeframe for failover scenarios, so we cannot accept that the ifsctl takes a long time during startup.
The problem we now have is that the Domain Controller remembers the configuration as it was during startup. So if any Node was disabled and is started later, the node guardian is not contacted by the domain controller. If the "Reload Domain" button is pressed, the domain controller refreshes it configuration and the additional nodes start their services.
The whole stuff runs within Veritas Cluster, so we need to find a way to get everything up without manual intervention (pressing the button in enterprise manager).
Thanks for any advice / help
Alex

Answer 1

Assuming your are using Ant underneath the covers to build inside of NetBeans (often the case), you can go to the directory where your NetBeans project resides and run "ant" from the command-line for the project's root directory (there should be a build.xml file in that directory). To do this, you'll need to have Ant installed (including having ANT_HOME defined in your environment) and you'll need to have JAVA_HOME defined in your environment and pointing to your Java SDK directory. This may sound like a lot of work (downloading and installing Ant and setting the environment variables), but it is probably the easiest way to build your NetBeans project from the command-line because it is likely that your particular NetBeans project is already using Ant to build. In fact, instead of downloading Ant, you could use the NetBeans installation of Ant as long as your ANT_HOME points to the NetBeans-provided Ant directory. You'll probably want to add $ANT_HOME/bin or %ANT_HOME%\bin to your PATH as well so that that can run "ant" from any directory.