Managing Serviceguard 12th Edition, March 2006

Configuring Packages and Their Services
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6 Configuring Packages and
Their Services
In addition to configuring the cluster, you need to identify the
applications and services that you wish to group into packages. This
chapter describes the following package configuration tasks for creating
package on the command line:
• Creating the Package Configuration
• Creating the Package Control Script
• Verifying the Package Configuration
• Distributing the Configuration
Each of these tasks is described in a separate section below.
You can also create a package and its control script in Serviceguard
Manager; select the cluster to see the menu for creating a new package.
The guided method will step you through the process.
In configuring your own packages, use data from the Package
Configuration Worksheet described in the “Planning” chapter. Package
configuration data from the worksheet becomes part of the binary cluster
configuration file on all nodes in the cluster. The control script data from
the worksheet goes into an executable package control script which runs
specific applications and monitors their operation.
Much of the information on the worksheets is discovered automatically
by Serviceguard Manager.