Managing Serviceguard Fifteenth Edition, reprinted May 2008

Cluster and Package Maintenance
Managing Packages and Services
Chapter 7 355
You cannot start a package unless all the packages that it depends on are
running. If you try, you’ll see a Serviceguard message telling you why the
operation failed, and the package will not start.
If this happens, you can repeat the run command, this time including the
package(s) this package depends on; Serviceguard will start all the
packages in the correct order.
Using Serviceguard Commands to Start a Package
Use the cmrunpkg command to run the package on a particular node,
then use the cmmodpkg command to enable switching for the package. For
example, to start a failover package:
cmrunpkg -n ftsys9 pkg1
cmmodpkg -e pkg1
This starts up the package on ftsys9, then enables package switching.
This sequence is necessary when a package has previously been halted
on some node, since halting the package disables switching.
Starting the Special-Purpose CVM and CFS Packages Use the
CFS administration commands listed in Appendix A, “Serviceguard
Commands,” on page 439, to start the special-purpose multi-node
packages used with CVM and CFS. For example, to start the
special-purpose multi-node package for the disk group package
(SG-CFS-DG-id#), use the cfsdgadm command. To start the
special-purpose multi-node package for the mount package
(SG-CFS-MP-id#) use the cfsmntadm command. Check to see if your
package has a dependency; before you can start your dependent package,
you must start all the packages it depends on.
Halting a Package
You halt a Serviceguard package when you want to bring the package out
of use but want the node to continue running in the cluster. You can halt
a package using Serviceguard Manager or on the Serviceguard command
line.
Halting a package has a different effect from halting the node. When you
halt the node, its failover packages may switch to adoptive nodes
(assuming that switching is enabled for them); when you halt a failover
package, it is disabled from switching to another node, and must be
restarted manually on another node or on the same node.