Managing Serviceguard Fifteenth Edition, reprinted May 2008

Cluster and Package Maintenance
Configuring a Legacy Package
Chapter 7380
Editing the Package Configuration File
Edit the file you generated with cmmakepkg. Use the bullet points that
follow as a checklist.
NOTE 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 439.
• PACKAGE_TYPE. Enter the package type; see “Types of Package:
Failover, Multi-Node, System Multi-Node” on page 277 and
package_type on page 288.
NOTE For modular packages, the default form for parameter names in the
package configuration file is lower case; for legacy packages the
default is upper case. There are no compatibility issues;
Serviceguard is case-insensitive as far as the parameter names are
concerned.
Because this section is intended to be used primarily when you
reconfiguring an existing legacy package, we are using the legacy
parameter names (in upper case) for sake of continuity. But if you
generate the configuration file using cmmakepkg or cmgetconf, you
will see the parameter names as they appear in modular packages;
see the notes below and the “Package Parameter Explanations” on
page 287 for details of the name changes.
• FAILOVER_POLICY. For failover packages, enter the
failover_policy (see page 292).
• FAILBACK_POLICY. For failover packages, enter the
failback_policy (see page 292).
• NODE_NAME. Enter the node or nodes on which the package can run;
see node_name on page 288.