Managing Serviceguard 14th Edition, June 2007

Cluster and Package Maintenance
Configuring a Legacy Package
Chapter 7 365
Configuring a Package in Stages It is a good idea to configure
failover packages in stages, as follows:
1. Configure volume groups and mount points only.
2. Distribute the control script to all nodes.
3. Apply the configuration.
4. Run the package and ensure that it can be moved from node to node.
5. Halt the package.
6. Configure package IP addresses and application services in the
control script.
7. Distribute the control script to all nodes.
8. Run the package and ensure that applications run as expected and
that the package fails over correctly when services are disrupted.
Editing the Package Configuration File
Edit the file you generated with cmmakepkg. Use the bullet points that
follow as a checklist.
NOTE On systems that support Veritas Cluster Volume Manager (CVM) and
Cluster File System (CFS), HP strongly recommends that you never edit
the package configuration file of a CVM/CFS multi-node or system
multi-node package, although Serviceguard does not prohibit it. Create
VxVM-CVM-pkg and SG-CFS-pkg by issuing the cmapplyconf command.
Create and modify SG-CFS-DG-id# and SG-CFS-MP-id# using the cfs
commands listed in Appendix A, “Serviceguard Commands,” on
page 419.
• PACKAGE_TYPE. Enter the package type; see “Types of Package:
Failover, Multi-Node, System Multi-Node” on page 273 and
package_type on page 282.