About the fault group script

To help you define fault groups on your cluster, Vertica provides a script named fault_group_ddl_generator.py in the /opt/vertica/scripts directory. This script generates the SQL statements you need to run to create fault groups.

The fault_group_ddl_generator.py script does not create fault groups for you, but you can copy the output to a file. Then, when you run the helper script, you can use \i or vsql–f commands to pass the cluster topology to Vertica.

The fault group script takes the following arguments:

• The database name

• The fault group input file

For example:

$ python /opt/vertica/scripts/fault_group_ddl_generator.py VMartdb fault_grp_input.out

See also

• Creating a fault group input file
• Creating fault groups
• Dropping fault groups
• Monitoring fault groups
• Fault groups