Managing Serviceguard Fifteenth Edition, reprinted May 2008

Cluster and Package Maintenance
Reviewing Cluster and Package Status
Chapter 7334
• fail_wait - The package is waiting to be halted because the
package or a package it depends on has failed, but must wait for a
package it depends on to halt before it can halt.
• failed - The package is down and failed.
• relocate_wait - The package’s halt script has completed or
Serviceguard is still trying to place the package.
• unknown - Serviceguard could not determine the state at the time
cmviewcl was run.
The following states are possible only for multi-node packages:
• blocked - The package has never run on this node, either because a
dependency has not been met, or because auto_run is set to no.
• changing - The package is in a transient state, different from the
status shown, on some nodes. For example, a status of starting with
a state of changing would mean that the package was starting on at
least one node, but in some other, transitory condition (for example,
failing) on at least one other node.
Package Switching Attributes cmviewcl shows the following
package switching information:
• AUTO_RUN: Can be enabled or disabled. For failover packages,
enabled means that the package starts when the cluster starts, and
Serviceguard can switch the package to another node in the event of
failure.
For system multi-node packages, enabled means an instance of the
package can start on a new node joining the cluster (disabled means
it will not).
• (Switching for a node): For failover packages, enabled means that
the package can switch to the specified node. disabled means that
the package cannot switch to the specified node until the node is
enabled to run the package via the cmmodpkg command.
Every failover package is marked enabled or disabled for each node
that is either a primary or adoptive node for the package.
For multi-node packages, node switching disabled means the
package cannot start on that node.
Service Status Services have only status, as follows: