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
TIP: To speed up the time it takes to launch a session of HP Serviceguard Manager,
do the following from the command line:
1. Stop hpsmh
/opt/hpsmh/bin/hpsmh stop
2. Edit the file /etc/rc.config.d/hpsmh. Set the value of START_TOMCAT to 1.
For example:
START_TOMCAT=1
3. Start hpsmhd.
/opt/hpsmh/bin/hpsmh autostart
Patches and Fixes
No patches are required for Serviceguard Manager B.02.00. For information about
known problems and workarounds, see “Known Problems for Serviceguard Manager”
(page 67).
Features Introduced Before A.11.19
Features First Introduced in Serviceguard A.11.18 Patches
Some of the features discussed in these Release Notes were originally introduced in
patches to Serviceguard version A.11.18. See the following topics for information about
the features in question.
• “About Cross-Subnet Configurations” (page 37)
• “Migrating Legacy to Modular Packages” (page 35)
• “Other Package Changes First Introduced in Serviceguard A.11.18 Patches”
(page 36)
• “About the VxVM Volume Monitor” (page 39)
• “Alternate Quorum Server Subnet” (page 41)
• “Support for Veritas 5.0 on HP-UX 11i v2 and 11i v3” (page 43)
For HP-UX 11i v3 only, see also:
• “About vgchange -T” (page 41)
• “About LVM 2.0” (page 42)
• “Serviceguard on HP-UX 11i v3” (page 21)
Migrating Legacy to Modular Packages
A new Serviceguard command, cmmigratepkg, first provided in a patch to A.11.18,
automates the process of migrating legacy packages to modular packages as far as
possible. (See Chapter 6 of Managing Serviceguard for information about modular and
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