Serviceguard NFS Toolkit A.11.11.06, A.11.23.05 and A.11.31.08 Administrator's Guide (October 2011)

rmtab. The man page for rmtab contains a warning that it is not always totally accurate,
so it is also unreliable in a standard NFS server / NFS client environment.
• AutoFS mounts may fail when mounting file systems exported by an HA-NFS package soon
after that package has been restarted. To avoid these mount failures, AutoFS clients should
wait at least 60 seconds after an HA-NFS package has started before mounting file systems
exported from that package.
• The Serviceguard supports Cross Subnet Failover. However, HA-NFS has a few limitations
with Cross Subnet configurations. For Cross Subnet support details, refer “Managing
Serviceguard” documentation. To access this document, go to the HP-UX Serviceguard manuals
page at: www.hp.com/go/hpux-serviceguard-docs
On this page, select HP Serviceguard.
• When clusters comprising of both HP Integrity servers and HP 9000 Series 800 computers
are configured with Veritas Cluster File System (CFS) in HP-UX11i v3, NFS clients fail to access
the mounted Cluster File Systems after failover. In such mixed architecture clusters over CFS,
the same file handles are not allowed to be used in both servers of the failover pair.
NOTE: This issue can be resolved by installing ONCPlus B.11.31.03 or above. See “Editing
the NFS Control Script”.
NOTE: You cannot use Serviceguard NFS for an NFS diskless cluster server.
Overview of Serviceguard NFS Toolkit A.11.31.07 with Serviceguard
A.11.18 (or later) and Veritas Cluster File System Support
The Serviceguard NFS Toolkit A.11.31.07 now supports Serviceguard A.11.18 (or later), which
is configured with Veritas Cluster File System (CFS). The Serviceguard CFS feature enables you to
create a file system that can be mounted by all nodes in a cluster environment. By configuring
Serviceguard NFS Toolkit to utilize CFS, simultaneous access to files and file systems is expanded
to multiple NFS servers. It provides performance improvement and cache coherency.
For detailed information on using the Serviceguard NFS Toolkit A.11.31.07 with Serviceguard
A.11.18 (or later) and CFS support, see the Serviceguard NFS Toolkit Support for Cluster File
System document. To locate this document, go to the HP-UX Serviceguard docs page at:
www.hp.com/go/hpux-serviceguard-docs. On this page, select HP Serviceguard NFS Toolkit. The
Serviceguard NFS Toolkit Support for Cluster File System must be considered as an addendum to
this guide.
HP recommends that you use the Serviceguard CFS feature instead of setting up the server-to-server
cross-mounting configuration as show in “Example Four - Two Servers with NFS Cross-Mounts”
(page 78).
The toolkit provides support for the variable HA_NFS_SCRIPT_EXTENSION in the nfs.cntl
control script. This new variable can be used to modify the name of the NFS specific control shell
script, hanfs.sh, which is associated with a package. For example, if you set the
HA_NFS_SCRIPT_EXTENSION variable to hapkg or hapkg.sh, then the NFS specific control
script executed by the package corresponding to the nfs.cntl file is hanfs.hapkg.sh. The
default name of the shell script for the HA_NFS_SCRIPT_EXTENSION variable is hanfs.sh.
Overview of the Serviceguard NFS Modular Package
The Serviceguard NFS Modular package provides a new interface for configuring Serviceguard
NFS packages, where all package parameters are configured in one package configuration file.
Separate package control files (toolkit scripts) are not created and distributed. The modular package
layer is generally comprised of toolkit specific module ADF's (Attribute Definition File) and module
scripts. A modular package consists of a set of shell scripts which is used by the Serviceguard
Master Control Script to start, stop and monitor the application. On HP-UX, this support is enabled
Overview of Serviceguard NFS Toolkit A.11.31.07 with Serviceguard A.11.18 (or later) and Veritas Cluster File System
Support
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