Managing Serviceguard Fifteenth Edition, reprinted May 2008

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Preface
This fourteenth printing of the manual applies to Serviceguard Version
A.11.18. Earlier versions are available at http://www.docs.hp.com ->
High Availability -> Serviceguard.
This guide describes how to configure Serviceguard to run on HP 9000 or
HP Integrity servers under the HP-UX operating system. The contents
are as follows:
• Chapter 1, “Serviceguard at a Glance,” describes a Serviceguard
cluster and provides a roadmap for using this guide.
• Chapter 2, “Understanding Serviceguard Hardware Configurations,”
provides a general view of the hardware configurations used by
Serviceguard.
• Chapter 3, “Understanding Serviceguard Software Components,”
describes the software components of Serviceguard and shows how
they function within the HP-UX operating system.
• Chapter 4, “Planning and Documenting an HA Cluster,” steps
through the planning process and provides a set of worksheets for
organizing information about the cluster.
• Chapter 5, “Building an HA Cluster Configuration,” describes the
creation of the cluster configuration.
• Chapter 6, “Configuring Packages and Their Services,” describes the
creation of high availability packages and the control scripts
associated with them.
• Chapter 7, “Cluster and Package Maintenance,” presents the basic
cluster administration tasks.
• Chapter 8, “Troubleshooting Your Cluster,” explains cluster testing
and troubleshooting strategies.
• Appendix A, “Serviceguard Commands,” lists the commands used by
Serviceguard and reprints summary information from each man
page.
• Appendix B, “Enterprise Cluster Master Toolkit,” describes a group
of tools available for creating specialized cluster configurations.