Managing Serviceguard Eighteenth Edition, September 2010

Table 7-3 Types of Changes to Packages (continued)
Required Package StateChange to the Package
Package should not be running.
See CAUTION under “Remove a volume group: modular package”.
Remove a vxvm_dg or cvm_dg:
modular package
Package can be running.Change vxvm_dg_retry: modular
package
Package must not be running.Add or remove a VXVM_DG
or CVM_DG: legacy package
Package must not be running.Change VXVM_DG_RETRY:
legacy package
Package can be running but proceed with caution. See “Renaming or
Replacing an External Script Used by a Running Package” (page 387).
Changes take effect when applied, whether or not the package is
running. If you add a script, Serviceguard validates it and then (if there
are no errors) runs it when you apply the change. If you delete a script,
Serviceguard stops it when you apply the change.
Add, change, or delete external
scripts and pre-scripts: modular
package
Package must not be running.Change vxvol_cmd
Package must not be running.Change vgchange_cmd
Package can be running.
These changes in themselves will not cause any volume group to be
activated or deactivated.
Change
concurrent_vgchange_operations,
deactivation_retry_count,
enable_threaded_vgchange:
modular package
Package must not be running.Change cvm_activation_cmd
Package can be running.Add, change, or delete pev_:
modular package
Package can be running. See “Choosing Switching and Failover
Behavior” (page 176).
Change package auto_run
Reconfiguring a Package 395