Managing Serviceguard 12th Edition, March 2006

Preface

The twelfth printing of this manual is updated for Serviceguard Version

A.11.17.

This guide describes how to configure Serviceguard to run on HP 9000 or

HP Integrity servers under the HP-UX operating system. The contents

are as follows:

• Chapter 1, “Serviceguard at a Glance,” describes a Serviceguard

cluster and provides a roadmap for using this guide.

• Chapter 2, “Understanding Serviceguard Hardware Configurations,”

provides a general view of the hardware configurations used by

Serviceguard.

• Chapter 3, “Understanding Serviceguard Software Components,”

describes the software components of Serviceguard and shows how

they function within the HP-UX operating system.

• Chapter 4, “Planning and Documenting an HA Cluster,” steps

through the planning process and provides a set of worksheets for

organizing information about the cluster.

• Chapter 5, “Building an HA Cluster Configuration,” describes the

creation of the cluster configuration. This edition includes updated

information in “Editing Security Files” on page 190.

• Chapter 6, “Configuring Packages and Their Services,” describes the

creation of high availability packages and the control scripts

associated with them.

• Chapter 7, “Cluster and Package Maintenance,” presents the basic

cluster administration tasks.

• Chapter 8, “Troubleshooting Your Cluster,” explains cluster testing

and troubleshooting strategies.

• Appendix A, “Serviceguard Commands,” lists the commands used by

Serviceguard and reprints summary information from each man

page.

• Appendix B, “Enterprise Cluster Master Toolkit,” describes a group

of tools available for creating specialized cluster configurations.