Managing Serviceguard 13th Edition, February 2007

Planning and Documenting an HA Cluster
Package Configuration Planning
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The service name must not contain any of the following
illegal characters: space, slash (/), backslash (\), and
asterisk (*). All other characters are legal. The service
name can contain up to 39 characters.
Service Command
For each service, enter a command run the service (see
also the Service Name and Service Restart
Parameter descriptions, and the examples in the
package control script template).
Service Restart Parameter
Enter the number of restarts to be attempted for this
service. One valid form of the parameter is -r n where
n is the number of retries. A value of -r 0 indicates no
retries. A value of -R indicates an infinite number of
retries. The default is 0, or no restarts.
(See also the Service Name and Service Command
Parameter descriptions, and the examples in the
package control script template).
Deferred Resource Names
For each deferred resource specified in the package
configuration ASCII file, you must enter the resource
name in this array in the control script. The name
should be spelled exactly as it is spelled in the
RESOURCE_NAME parameter in the package ASCII
configuration file.
In the package control script file, enter the value into
the array known as DEFERRED_RESOURCE_NAME. This
name must match the resource name listed with the
RESOURCE_START parameter in the package ASCII
configuration file.
DTC Manager Data
Enter a name for each HP network terminal controller
(DTC), if any.