Managing Serviceguard 11th Edition, Version A.11.16, Second Printing June 2004

Planning and Documenting an HA Cluster
Package Configuration Planning
Chapter 4166
NOTE VxVM disk groups are imported at package run time
and exported at package halt time. If you are using a
large number of VxVM disks in your package, the
timeout must be high enough to allow all of them to
finish the import or export.
CVM diskgroups
This parameter is used for CVM disk groups. Enter the
names of all the CVM disk groups the package will use.
In the ASCII package configuration file, this parameter
is called STORAGE_GROUP.
NOTE You should not enter the names of LVM volume groups
or VxVM disk groups in the package ASCII
configuration file.
Service name
Enter a unique name for each service. In the ASCII
package configuration file, this parameter is called
SERVICE_NAME.
Define one SERVICE_NAME entry for each service.You
can configure a maximum of 30 services per package
and 900 services per cluster. The service name must
not contain any of the following illegal characters:
space, slash (/), backslash (\), and asterisk (*). All other
characters are legal. The service name can contain up
to 39 characters.
Service fail fast
Enter Enabled or Disabled for each service. This
parameter indicates whether or not the failure of a
service results in the failure of a node. If the parameter
is set to Enabled, in the event of a service failure,
Serviceguard will halt the node on which the service is