HP Serviceguard A.11.20- Managing Serviceguard Twentieth Edition, August 2011

Using Serviceguard Manager
NOTE: For more-detailed information, see Appendix I (page 385) and the section on Serviceguard
Manager in the latest version of the Serviceguard Release Notes. Check the
Serviceguard/SGeRAC/SMS/Serviceguard Manager Plug-in Compatibility and Feature Matrix
and the latest Release Notes for up-to-date information about Serviceguard Manager compatibility.
You can find both documents at http://www.hp.com/go/hpux-serviceguard-docs under HP
Serviceguard.
Serviceguard Manager is the graphical user interface for Serviceguard. It is available as a “plug-in”
to the System Management Homepage (SMH). SMH is a web-based graphical user interface (GUI)
that replaces SAM as the system administration GUI as of HP-UX 11i v3 (but you can still run the
SAM terminal interface; see “Using SAM” (page 24)).
You can use Serviceguard Manager to monitor, administer, and configure Serviceguard clusters.
• You can see properties, status, and alerts of clusters, nodes, and packages.
• You can do administrative tasks such as run or halt clusters, cluster nodes, and packages.
• You can create or modify a cluster and its packages.
Monitoring Clusters with Serviceguard Manager
From the main page of Serviceguard Manager, you can see status and alerts for the cluster, nodes,
and packages. You can also drill down to see the configuration and alerts of the cluster, nodes,
and packages.
Administering Clusters with Serviceguard Manager
Serviceguard Manager allows you administer clusters, nodes, and packages if access control
policies permit:
• Cluster: halt, run
• Cluster nodes: halt, run
• Package: halt, run, move from one node to another, reset node- and package-switching flags
Configuring Clusters with Serviceguard Manager
You can configure clusters and packages in Serviceguard Manager. You must have root (UID=0)
access to the cluster nodes.
Starting Serviceguard Manager
To start the Serviceguard Manager plug-in in your web browser from the System Management
Homepage, click on the link to Serviceguard Cluster or a particular cluster. Then select a
cluster, node, or package, and use the drop-down menus below the “Serviceguard Manager”
banner to navigate to the task you need to do.
Use Serviceguard Manager’s built-in help to guide you through the tasks; this manual will tell you
if a task can be done in Serviceguard Manager but does not duplicate the help.
Using SAM
You can use SAM, the System Administration Manager, to do many of the HP-UX system
administration tasks described in this manual (that is, tasks, such as configuring disks and file
systems, that are not specifically Serviceguard tasks).
To launch SAM, enter
/usr/sbin/sam
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