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
NOTE: DSAU does not support a local log consolidation server in a cross-subnet
cluster. Instead, you can setup a remote log consolidation server on the Quorum Server
node or cluster.
Native Language Support
HP Serviceguard Manager Version B.02.00 is available in the following languages:
• Japanese
• Simplified Chinese
• Korean
• Traditional Chinese
• Standard French
• Standard German
• Standard Italian
• Standard Spanish
What You Can Do
Depending on your SMH and Serviceguard security privileges, you can do the following:
• Monitor, create, and modify, and run and halt a cluster.
• Monitor and run and halt nodes.
• Create and modify failover and multi-node packages, including configuring
package dependencies. You can also modify Auto Run and Node Switching
settings.
• Monitor, run, halt, and move failover, multi-node, and system multi-node packages.
New Features
HP Serviceguard Manager version B.02.00 supports Serviceguard A.11.19 on HP-UX
11i v2 and HP-UX 11i v3 (as well as Linux Red Hat RHEL 5.2 and SUSE SLES 10 and
11). The following are new capabilities in B.02.00:
• Enhanced cluster monitoring:
— Summarize package status iconically with drill-down to specific problem
descriptions
— Identify packages that cannot failover
— Identify whether nodes and packages are halted or failed
— Identify package type (e.g. failover, multi-node system multi-node, Serviceguard
Extension for RAC)
— Identify Serviceguard nodes that are VMware guests
— Identify Serviceguard nodes that are Integrity VM hosts or guests
• Detect Serviceguard Extension for SAP
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