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

Building an HA Cluster Configuration
Chapter 5 179
5 Building an HA Cluster
Configuration
This chapter and the next take you through the configuration tasks
required to set up a Serviceguard cluster. These procedures are carried
out on one node, called the configuration node, and the resulting
binary file is distributed by Serviceguard to all the nodes in the cluster.
In the examples in this chapter, the configuration node is named ftsys9,
and the sample target node is called ftsys10. This chapter describes the
following cluster configuration tasks:
• Preparing Your Systems
• Setting up the Quorum Server
• Installing Serviceguard
• Creating a Storage Infrastructure with LVM
• Creating a Storage Infrastructure with VxVM
• Configuring the Cluster
• Creating a Storage Infrastructure with CVM
• Managing the Running Cluster
Configuring packages is described in the next chapter.
If you use Serviceguard Manager, the graphical user interface, you can
configure clusters with Serviceguard version 11.16 or later. To create a
cluster, connect to a session server with Serviceguard A.11.16 or later.
One the map or tree, select a cluster or unused node with Serviceguard
A.11.16 or later. Go to the Actions menu. You will see a screen with
several tabs. The tabs prompt you for information, and show you
discovered options for many of the choices. There is online Help available
to help you make decisions.
If you are using Serviceguard commands to configure the cluster and
packages, use the man pages for each command to obtain information
about syntax and usage.