HP-UX and Linux Serviceguard Cluster Manageability, June 2007
Table Of Contents
- Purpose
- Audience
- Executive summary
- HP management solutions
- Achieving end-to-end management with HP System Management Homepage, HP Serviceguard Manager, HP Systems Insight Manager, and HP Operations Manager software
- Better together: Complementary management delivering the best return on IT
- Differences between HP Serviceguard Manager stand-alone and functional area versions
- HP Serviceguard Manager integration with HP Systems Insight Manager
- HP Serviceguard Manager integration with HP Network Node Manager
- HP Serviceguard Manager integration with HP Operations Manager
- Example
- Usage scenarios
- Statement on future direction
- Summary
- Appendix A
- For more information
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to present the management tools and integration points necessary to
achieve a comprehensive and cohesive management solution for HP High Availability and Business
Continuity architectures. As a point of reference, a brief summary of HP High Availability and
Business Continuity solutions will be provided in an appendix.
Audience
The intended audience for this paper includes IT managers, administrators, and operators, as well as
anyone involved in the planning and procurement process for a highly available architecture.
Executive summary
HP Adaptive Infrastructure establishes a supply chain for IT services
based on standard building blocks and is automated using modular
software to enable a 24x7 lights-out computing environment. This
foundation for optimizing business outcomes helps you to reduce
operational costs, accelerate the speed of IT change, and deliver a
higher quality of service, thereby increasing business efficiency.
HP Serviceguard solutions—the foundation of the HP high-availability
(HA) and disaster-tolerance strategy for HP-UX and Linux—help IT
organizations create environments where downtime is reduced and
overall system reliability is greatly improved. HP Serviceguard solutions
enhance application availability and maintain service levels through
dynamic resource re-allocation. They are designed to protect
applications from a wide range of hardware and software failures and
—with multiple cluster configurations—can easily be integrated into
simple or highly complex IT environments.
The challenges of managing an HA solution can be attributed to the high complexity of applications
and infrastructure, heterogeneous environments, early detection of potential failures, change
management, and the necessity to reduce total cost of management. This paper will illustrate the
components that work together to configure, manage, and monitor Serviceguard high availability and
business continuity environments from a single console across platforms and operating systems to
address these challenges.
HP management solutions
HP offers a set of integrated management solutions to manage networks, systems, and clusters at
different levels. At the enterprise level, HP Operations Manager software manages a multi-vendor
environment. At the multi-system level, HP Systems Insight Manager (SIM) is used to manage HP
servers, storage, clients, printers, and other networked devices. At the single system level, HP System
Management Homepage (SMH) is used to consolidate and simplify system management for HP
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