Managing Serviceguard 12th Edition, March 2006

Building an HA Cluster Configuration
Chapter 5 187
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 VERITAS CVM/CFS
• Creating the Storage Infrastructure and Filesystems with VERITAS
Cluster Volume Manager (CVM)
• Managing the Running Cluster
Configuring packages is described in the next chapter.
Using the graphical user interface, Serviceguard Manager, you can
configure clusters. You can configure clusters with Serviceguard A.11.16
or later, if you use Serviceguard Manager A.04.00 or later and if you
connect to a session server with Serviceguard A.11.16 or later.
On the map or tree, select a cluster or an unused node with Serviceguard
A.11.16 or later. Go to the Actions menu and select Configuration. 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.