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
More-recent information may be available from your HP support representative, or on
the Hewlett-Packard IT Resource Center (ITRC): http://www.itrc.hp.com
(Americas and Asia Pacific) or http://www.europe.itrc.hp.com (Europe).
You can find details of each defect on the ITRC web site. See “Fixed in This Version”
(page 64) for instructions on looking up a defect.
Defects
• QXCR1000874873: Serviceguard locklun devices are restricted to 39 characters
not 255
• QXCR1000882834: Package halt behavior for modular packages.
• QXCR1000886789: cmquerycl -w full routing restrictions not fully documented
- command may fail
• QXCR1000924513: cmcld SIGSEGV when starting a 1 node cluster after upgrade
to A.11.19:
• QXCR1000938745: Serviceguard 11.19 cmproxyd reports cluster is not configured
when it is
• QXCR1000939674:: cmcld abort due to closing the same fd twice after QS failure
• QXCR1000941884: Serviceguard 11.19 unlimited modular package service restarts
is impossible
Known Problems for Serviceguard Manager
The following problems in Serviceguard Manager B.02.00 were known at the time of
publication.
• QXCR1000790716: Disk problems may prevent cluster creation
• QXCR1000840129: NPE in ClusterConfigPage with full network probing (-w full
• QXCR1000843137: Drop-down boxes should go to the back of a tooltip
• QXCR1000857159: Up/down arrows used to change sorting are sometimes hidden
• QXCR1000876220: The operation log browser window may refresh itself
indefinitely
• QXCR1000877581 : Unable to select menu item Firefox 3.0
About Serviceguard Releases
Types of Releases and Patches
Versions of Serviceguard are provided as platform releases, feature releases, or patches.
Platform Release
A platform release is a stable version of Serviceguard, which is the preferred
environment for the majority of Serviceguard customers. Platform releases may also
contain new Serviceguard features. These releases are supported for an extended period
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