HP Serviceguard Linux NFS-Toolkit-A.03.03.00 User Guide (696981-001, June 2012)

1 Overview
The HP Serviceguard Toolkit for NFS on Linux allows you to start, stop, and monitor a Network
File System in a Serviceguard cluster environment. This toolkit consists of a set of shell scripts used
by the package control script to start, stop, and monitor NFS daemons. The toolkit simplifies making
NFS exports highly available by integrating NFS with Serviceguard for Linux (SG/LX).
The latest version of the HP Serviceguard Toolkit for NFS on Linux is available for free download
at:
http://software.hp.com —> HP-UX 11i Software —> High Availability
Advantages
The HP Serviceguard Toolkit for NFS on Linux has the following advantages:
• Enables you to export NFS shares to remote servers.
• Provides monitoring for NFS daemons.
• Enables easy integration of NFS Server in a Serviceguard environment.
• Provides high availability for the NFS Server.
• Facilitates NFS file lock migration.
• Initiates a failover when the system resources fail.
• Allows you to configure packages using Serviceguard Manager. For more information, see
Managing HP Serviceguard A.11.20.00 for Linux at http://www.hp.com/go/
linux-serviceguard-docs
Dependencies
You must install the following on all the cluster nodes:
• Supported version of the NFS application.
• Supported version of HP Serviceguard A.11.20.00 on Linux.
Prerequisites
Following are the prerequisites for the HP Serviceguard Toolkit for NFS on Linux to run:
• NFS application must be installed on all the required nodes in the cluster.
NOTE: To use the required version of NFS protocol, you must enable that version of NFS
protocol on Red Hat operating system.
• The following RPMs must be available for the NFS toolkit to function properly in the Red Hat
environment. The version of these RPMs should be the latest supported version from the RHEL
OS.
◦ nfs-utils-lib-x.y.z-a.b.c.<OS_release_version>.arch.rpm
◦ nfs-utils-a.b.c-x.y.<OS_release_version>.arch.rpm
◦ system-config-nfs-x.y.z-a.b.<OS_release_version>.arch.rpm
◦ procmail-a.b-x.y.<OS_release_version>.arch.rpm
4 Overview