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

Cluster and Package Maintenance
Managing Packages and Services
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Managing Packages and Services
Managing packages and services involves the following tasks:
• Starting a Package
• Halting a Package
• Moving a Package (halt, then start)
• Changing Package Switching Behavior
In Serviceguard 11.16 and later, these commands can be done by
non-root users, according to access policies in the cluster’s configuration
files. See Editing Security Files, in Chapter 5, for more information
about configuring access.
You can use Serviceguard Manager or the Serviceguard command line to
perform these tasks.
Starting a Package
Ordinarily, a package configured as part of the cluster will start up on its
primary node when the cluster starts up. You may need to start a
package manually after it has been halted manually. You can do this
either in Serviceguard Manager or on the Serviceguard command line.
Using Serviceguard Manager to Start a Package
Select the package you wish to start, and right-click to display the action
list. You can start the package either on its default configured node, or on
any node in the package node list. Select “Run package <pkgname>” or
“Run package <pkgname> on node...” with a select list of running eligible
nodes from which you can choose the node on which the package should
start.
The progress window shows messages as the action takes place. This will
include messages for starting the package.
The cluster must be running in order to start a package.