HP Serviceguard A.11.20.00 for Linux Release Notes, August 2012

Performing Offline Upgrade from A.11.18.X to A.11.20.00
The following procedure describes how to perform offline rolling upgrade from A.11.18.X to
A.11.20.00:
1. Halt the cluster.
For example, #cmhaltcl -f
2. Select a node you want to upgrade and uninstall pidentd rpm
CAUTION: Serviceguard commands will not work unless step 4 is complete. You cannot
change the cluster configuration files until the process of upgrade is complete on all nodes.
#rpm -e --nodeps pidentd-3.0.19-0
3. Install authd rpm from distro.
#rpm -i <authd rpm>
4. Upgrade the node.
The following examples shows only the Serviceguard rpm. Generally, you also need to install
the following:
• cmsnmpd
• sgprovider
For example, (Serviceguard rpm for Red Hat 5 x86_64):
#rpm –Uvh serviceguard-A.11.20.00-0.rhel6.x86_64.rpm
5. Repeat steps 2 to 4 on each node of the cluster.
6. After all nodes are upgraded, restart the cluster.
#cmruncl
Rolling Upgrade in Serviceguard Manager
Serviceguard Manager does not support rolling upgrade.
1. Ensure Java JDK 1.6 or greater is installed, if not download recent Java JDK for your Linux
distribution and install. Make sure /usr/bin/java points to the JAVA 1.6 or later.
2. Ensure tomcat 5.x or tomcat6.x is installed before proceeding the installation of Serviceguard
Manager.
3. Rolling upgrade from Serviceguard Manager B.02.xx to Serviceguard Manager B.03.31 is
not supported and users need to uninstall the existing version of the following products:
• HPSMH
• HPSMH-Tomcat
• SGMgrPI
4. Reinstall the following products from Serviceguard Linux A.11.20.00 bundle:
• HPSMH (hpsmh-7.1.0-16.x86_64.rpm)
• SGMgr-Tomcat (serviceguard-manager-tomcat-01.00.0.redhat.noarch.rpm)
• SGMgrB03.31 (serviceguard-manager-B.03.31.00.redhat.noarch.rpm)
Operating System and Version Compatibility
This release is specific for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.
Hardware Requirements
Supported hardware architecture is X86_64 (64 bit).
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