Managing Serviceguard Eighteenth Edition, September 2010

If no timeout is specified (no_timeout), Serviceguard will wait indefinitely for the
package to start.
If a timeout occurs:
• Switching will be disabled.
• The current node will be disabled from running the package.
NOTE: VxVM disk groups are imported at package run time and exported at
package halt time. If a package uses a large number of VxVM disk, the timeout
value must be large enough to allow all of them to finish the import or export.
NOTE: If (no_timeout is specified, and the script hangs, or takes a very long time
to complete, during the validation step (cmcheckconf (1m)), cmcheckconf will
wait 20 minutes to allow the validation to complete before giving up.
halt_script_timeout
The amount of time, in seconds, allowed for the package to halt; or no_timeout. The
default is no_timeout. The maximum is 4294.
If the package’s halt process does not complete in the time specified by
halt_script_timeout, Serviceguard will terminate the package and prevent it from
switching to another node. In this case, if node_fail_fast_enabled (page 290) is set to yes,
the node will be halted (HP-UX system reset).
If a halt_script_timeout is specified, it should be greater than the sum of all the values set
for service_halt_timeout (page 301) for this package.
If a timeout occurs:
• Switching will be disabled.
• The current node will be disabled from running the package.
If a halt-script timeout occurs, you may need to perform manual cleanup. See “Package
Control Script Hangs or Failures” in Chapter 8. See also the note about VxVM under
run_script_timeout (page 290).
successor_halt_timeout
Specifies how long, in seconds, Serviceguard will wait for packages that depend on
this package to halt, before halting this package. Can be 0 through 4294, or
no_timeout. The default is no_timeout.
• no_timeout means that Serviceguard will wait indefinitely for the dependent
packages to halt.
• 0 means Serviceguard will not wait for the dependent packages to halt before
halting this package.
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