HP Serviceguard Quorum Server Version A.04.00 Release Notes, May 2014

Installing the Quorum Server
Read this entire document and any other Release Notes you may have before you begin an
installation.
The Quorum Server software, which must be running during cluster configuration, must be installed
on a system other than the nodes on which your cluster will be running. This could be a single
Linux or HP-UX system, or it could be a separate cluster.
NOTE: Ensure that the latest SGLX_00488 patch is installed on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 system
before using quorum server. You can download the patch from HP Support Centre at http://
www.hp.com/go/hpsc.
If you are updating from an older version of Quorum Server, see the instructions below.
IMPORTANT: Order is important if you are updating Quorum Server and also updating
Serviceguard. You must update Quorum Server before updating Serviceguard. See the instructions
below.
Installing on HP-UX
Use the swinstall command to install the Quorum Server, product number B8467BA, on the
system (or systems) where it will run. You must install the Quorum Server on a node outside the
cluster (or clusters) that it will serve. The only installation required on the clusters that use the Quorum
Server lock is Serviceguard itself.
If you are updating from an earlier version of Quorum Server, skip to the upgrading instructions
below.
To install from the web, go to http://software.hp.com, then select Serviceguard Quorum
Server.
1. Download B8467BA version A.04.00, and store it to disk.
2. Run the swinstall command on this depot. Select B8467BA A.04.00 Quorum Server.
The Quorum Server executable file, qs, is installed in the /usr/lbin directory. When the
installation is complete, you need to create an authorization file on the server where the Quorum
Server will be running, to allow specific cluster nodes to obtain quorum services. See “Creating
and Updating the Authorization File” (page 18).
Now create a directory for the Quorum Server log file. The recommended pathnames are in Table 3
(page 17). (You may need to create the directory.)
Installing on Linux
The install command for Linux uses the complete version name. The current supported versions for
Linux are A.04.00 and A.04.00.01. Before installing, you can see the complete version name in
the file name; after installing, you can get it by using the command rpm -q qs.
1. Either download A.04.00 or A.04.00.01 and store it to disk, or get it from the appropriate
directory on the HP Serviceguard for Linux CD.
2. From the directory that contains the file, use the rpm command to install the version you need,
as in the following examples.
Example 1 (for Red Hat i386):
rpm -ihv qs-A.04.00.00-0.rhel5.i386.rpm
10 HP Serviceguard Quorum Server Version A.04.00 Release Notes