Managing Serviceguard 12th Edition, March 2006

Planning and Documenting an HA Cluster
Package Configuration Planning
Chapter 4176
Service halt timeout In the event of a service halt, Serviceguard will
first send out a SIGTERM signal to terminate the
service. If the process is not terminated, Serviceguard
will wait for the specified timeout before sending out
the SIGKILL signal to force process termination. In the
ASCII package configuration file, this parameter is
SERVICE_HALT_TIMEOUT.
If you do not fill in a number, Serviceguard will not
allow any timeout (0 seconds). The maximum value is
restricted only by the HP-UX parameter ULONG_MAX,
for an absolute limit of 4,294 seconds.
Define one SERVICE_HALT_TIMEOUT entry for each
service.
Subnet Enter the IP subnets that are to be monitored for the
package.
In the ASCII package configuration file, this parameter
is called SUBNET.
PACKAGE_TYPE The type of the package. This parameter indicates
whether the package will run on one node at a time or
on multiple nodes. Valid types are FAILOVER,
MULTI_NODE, and SYSTEM_MULTI_NODE. Default is
FAILOVER.
You cannot create a user-defined package with a type
of SYSTEM_MULTI_NODE or MULTI-NODE. They are only
supported for specific purposes designed by HP.
It is not recommended that you create the VERITAS
Cluster File System packages by editing the ASCII
configuration template; use the cfs admin commands
in Appendix A.
EMS resource The name of an Event Monitoring Service resource that
is to be monitored by Serviceguard as a package
dependency. In the ASCII package configuration file,
this parameter is called RESOURCE_NAME.
A resource name is the name of an important attribute
of a particular system resource. The resource name
includes the entire hierarchy of resource class and
subclass within which the resource exists on a system.
Obtain the resource name from the list provided in