HP Serviceguard Toolkit for NFS on Linux Version A.03.03.01 Release Notes (December, 2012)

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Announcements
The HP Serviceguard Toolkit for NFS on Linux allows you to start, stop, monitor network file system
daemons, and provide high availability for the NFS exports in Serviceguard cluster environment.
The HP Serviceguard Toolkit for NFS toolkit on Linux: Annual Release, December 2012 is available
for free download at:
http://software.hp.com —> HP-UX 11i Software —> High Availability
What is new in this version
This release of HP Serviceguard toolkit for NFS includes support for the following enhancements:
• Packaging NFS server for NFSv4 protocol.
• Toolkit maintenance mode feature.
• Online modification of NFS toolkit attribute values.
• Serviceguard alert notification feature for NFS toolkit package failure events.
• Metrocluster and Continentalclusters.
• NFS toolkit on RHEL 6.3.
• NFS toolkit on SLES 11 SP1 and SLES 11 SP2.
Legacy packages
You can use the legacy method to create new toolkit packages in the A.03.03.01 toolkit version.
However, HP recommends that you use the modular method to create new toolkit packages. The
legacy style toolkit package does not support online modification of toolkit attribute values.
IMPORTANT: The legacy packages will be obsolete from the next major version of Serviceguard.
Compatibility matrix and installation
Compatibility matrix
The compatible versions of HP Serviceguard, Linux OS, and NFS for this toolkit are as follows:
NFS protocol versionLinux OS version
HP Serviceguard
versionToolkit versionToolkit
NFS v2, v3 and v4RHEL 5.7, RHEL 5.8,
RHEL 6.1, RHEL 6.2,
A.11.20.10A.03.03.01HP Serviceguard
Toolkit for NFS on
Linux RHEL 6.3 and SLES 11
SP1 and SLES 11 SP2
For most recent compatibility information, see the latest HP Serviceguard Toolkit Compatibility
Matrix available at:
http://www.hp.com/go/linux-serviceguard-docs
Release specific information
The release specific details are as follows:
• For SLES, Serviceguard NFS toolkit A.03.03.01 is available as a media release.
• For Redhat, Serviceguard NFS toolkit A.03.03.01 is available as a update. SGLX_00343
and SGLX_00344 are the update IDs for RHEL 5 and RHEL 6 respectively. These updates must
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