Managing Serviceguard Extension for SAP Version A.06.00 for Linux, December 2012

Prerequisites......................................................................................................................47
Node preparation and synchronization.................................................................................47
Intermediate synchronization and verification of virtual hosts....................................................48
Intermediate synchronization and verification of mount points...................................................48
Infrastructure setup for NFS toolkit (Phase 1a)........................................................................48
Creating NFS Toolkit package using Serviceguard Manager...............................................48
Creating NFS toolkit package using Serviceguard CLI........................................................51
Automount setup...........................................................................................................51
Solutionmanager diagnostic agent file system preparations related to NFS toolkit...................52
Intermediate node sync and verification............................................................................52
Infrastructure Setup - SAP base package setup (Phase 1b)........................................................53
Intermediate synchronization and verification of mount points..............................................53
SAP base package with Serviceguard and SGeSAP modules..............................................53
Creating the package with the Serviceguard Manager..................................................53
Creating the package configuration file with the CLI......................................................55
SAP base package with Serviceguard modules only...........................................................56
Creating the package with Serviceguard Manger.........................................................56
Creating the package configuration file with the CLI......................................................57
Verification steps...........................................................................................................58
SAP installation (Phase 2)........................................................................................................58
Prerequisite.......................................................................................................................58
Installation of SAP instances................................................................................................58
Post SAP installation tasks and final node synchronization (Phase 3a)............................................59
SAP post installation modifications and checks.......................................................................59
User synchronization..........................................................................................................61
Network services synchronization.........................................................................................62
NFS and automount synchronization.....................................................................................63
SAP hostagent installation on secondary cluster nodes............................................................63
Other local file systems and synchronization..........................................................................63
Completing SGeSAP package creation (Phase 3b)......................................................................64
Creating SGeSAP package with guided configuration using Serviceguard Manager...................65
Creating SGeSAP package with CLI interface........................................................................65
Module sgesap/sap_global – SAP common instance settings..................................................65
Module sgesap/sapinstance – SAP instances........................................................................67
Module sgesap/dbinstance – SAP databases........................................................................67
Module sgesap/mdminstance – SAP MDM repositories..........................................................68
Module sg/services – SGeSAP monitors................................................................................69
Module sg/generic_resource – SGeSAP enqor resource..........................................................70
Module sg/dependency – SGeSAP enqor MNP dependency..................................................70
Module sgesap/enqor – SGeSAP enqor MNP template..........................................................70
Configuring sgesap/sapextinstance, sgesap/sapinfra and sgesap/livecache ............................71
Remote access between cluster nodes and to external application servers.............................71
Configuring external instances (sgesap/sapextinstance).....................................................72
Configuring SAP infrastructure components (sgesap/sapinfra).............................................74
Module sgesap/livecache – SAP liveCache instance..........................................................76
Cluster conversion for existing instances.....................................................................................78
Converting an existing SAP instance.....................................................................................78
Converting an existing database..........................................................................................79
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