HP Serviceguard Version A.11.19 Release Notes, July 2009
Table Of Contents
- HP Serviceguard Version A.11.19 Release Notes
- Table of Contents
- Printing History
- 1 Serviceguard Version A.11.19 Release Notes
- Announcements
- Platform Dependencies
- July 2009 Patches
- Serviceguard Bundled Components - New Product Structure
- Serviceguard Optional Products Not Bundled
- New Cluster Manager
- Serviceguard A.11.19 Is the Required Basis for Future Rolling Upgrades
- Quorum Server Upgrade Required if You Are Using an Alternate Address
- Serviceguard Manager Available from the System Management Homepage (SMH)
- Support for Mixed-OS Clusters (HP–UX 11i v2 and 11i v3)
- Version 5.0 of Veritas CVM and CFS from Symantec Required
- Version 3.5, 4.0, or 4.1 of HPVM Required
- ipnodes Entries Needed in /etc/nsswitch.conf
- Legacy Packages
- .rhosts Deprecated
- cmviewconf Deprecated
- Serviceguard Extension for Faster Failover Obsolete
- RS232 Heartbeat Obsolete
- Token Ring and FDDI Obsolete
- Parallel SCSI Dual Cluster Lock Obsolete
- Parallel SCSI Not Supported for Lock LUN
- Cluster Name Restrictions
- Optimizing Performance when Activating LVM Volume Groups
- High Availability Consulting Services
- Announcements for HP-UX 11i v2
- Announcements for HP-UX 11i v3
- What’s in this Release
- New Features for July 2009 Patches
- Features Introduced in A.11.19
- Serviceguard on HP-UX 11i v3
- What’s Not in this Release
- About the New Features
- Features Introduced Before A.11.19
- Features First Introduced in Serviceguard A.11.18 Patches
- Features First Introduced Before Serviceguard A.11.18
- Documents for This Version
- Further Information
- Compatibility Information and Installation Requirements
- Installing Serviceguard on HP-UX
- Uninstalling Serviceguard
- Patches for this Version
- Fixed in This Version
- Known Problems
- About Serviceguard Releases
- Release Notes Revisions
- Native Languages
- Announcements
a cluster template file, edit it to set the appropriate (IPv6) values for QS_HOST and
QS_ADDR and set HOSTNAME_ADDRESS_FAMILY to ANY, and then use
cmapplyconf to apply the configuration. See the latest version of the HP Serviceguard
Quorum Server Version A.04.00 Release Notes on docs.hp.com —> High
Availability —> Quorum Server for more information.
IMPORTANT: Quorum Server Version A.04.00 is required if you are configuring a
second Quorum Server address (QS_ADDR). This is true whether QS_ADDR is an IPv4
or an IPv6 address.
The IP Monitor
In addition to monitoring network interfaces at the link level, Serviceguard A.11.19
can also monitor the IP level, checking Layer 3 health and connectivity for both IPv4
and IPv6 subnets. This is done by the IP Monitor, which is configurable: you can enable
IP monitoring for any subnet configured into the cluster, but you do not have to monitor
any. You can configure IP monitoring for a subnet, or turn off monitoring, while the
cluster is running.
For more information, see the section “Monitoring LAN Interfaces and Detecting Failure:
IP Level” in Chapter 3 of Managing Serviceguard.
New Online Cluster Configuration Capabilities
Serviceguard A.11.19 introduces new online cluster-management capabilities. The new
capabilities include:
• Changing the Quorum Server configuration
• Changing the lock disk configuration
• Changing the lock LUN configuration
• Changing an interface from IPv4 to IPv6, or vice versa
For a summary of what can be changed online, with instructions and caveats, see the
section “Reconfiguring a Cluster” in Chapter 7 of the latest version of Managing
Serviceguard.
New Online Package Configuration Capabilities
Serviceguard A.11.19 allows you to perform most configuration changes to modular
packages, and many changes to legacy packages, while the package is running. For
details, instructions, and caveats, see the section “Reconfiguring a Package” in chapter
7 of the latest version of Managing Serviceguard, and in particular the subsection
“Allowable Package States During Reconfiguration”.
For information about legacy and modular packages, see Chapter 6 of the latest version
of Managing Serviceguard.
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