Managing Serviceguard 12th Edition, March 2006

Serviceguard at a Glance
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1 Serviceguard at a Glance
This chapter introduces Serviceguard on HP-UX, and shows where to
find different kinds of information in this book. The following topics are
presented:
• What is Serviceguard?
• Using Serviceguard Manager
• A Roadmap for Configuring Clusters and Packages
If you are ready to start setting up Serviceguard clusters, skip ahead to
Chapter 4, “Planning and Documenting an HA Cluster,” on page 131.
Specific steps for setup are given in Chapter 5, “Building an HA Cluster
Configuration,” on page 187.
Figure 1-1 shows a typical Serviceguard cluster with two nodes.
Figure 1-1 Typical Cluster Configuration