Managing Serviceguard 12th Edition, March 2006

Cluster and Package Maintenance
Reconfiguring a Package
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the file system or Serviceguard packages. Use of these other forms of
mount will not create an appropriate multi-node package which means
that the cluster packages are not aware of the file system changes.
Resetting the Service Restart Counter
The service restart counter is the number of times a package service has
been automatically restarted. This value is used to determine when the
package service has exceeded its maximum number of allowable
automatic restarts.
NOTE Any form of the mount command (for example, mount -o cluster,
dbed_chkptmount, or sfrac_chkptmount) other than cfsmount or
cfsumount in a HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite
environment with CFS should be done with caution. These non-cfs
commands could cause conflicts with subsequent command operations on
the file system or Serviceguard packages. Use of these other forms of
mount will not create an appropriate multi-node package which means
that the cluster packages are not aware of the file system changes.
When a package service successfully restarts after several attempts, the
package manager does not automatically reset the restart count.
However, you may choose to reset the counter online using the cmmodpkg
-R -s command, thus enabling the service in future restart situations
to have the full number of restart attempts up to the configured
SERVICE_RESTART count. Example:
# cmmodpkg -R -s myservice pkg1
The current value of the restart counter may be seen in the output of the
cmviewcl -v command.
Allowable Package States During Reconfiguration
All nodes in the cluster must be powered up and accessible when making
configuration changes.