Managing Serviceguard Fifteenth Edition, reprinted May 2008

Cluster and Package Maintenance
Configuring a Legacy Package
Chapter 7382
• If your package runs services, enter the SERVICE_NAME (see
service_name on page 297) and values for
SERVICE_FAIL_FAST_ENABLED (see service_fail_fast_enabled
on page 298) and SERVICE_HALT_TIMEOUT (see
service_halt_timeout on page 299). Enter a group of these three
for each service.
IMPORTANT Note that the rules for valid SERVICE_NAMEs are more restrictive as
of A.11.18.
• To configure monitoring for a registered resource, enter values for
the following parameters.
— RESOURCE_NAME
— RESOURCE_POLLING_INTERVAL
— RESOURCE_UP_VALUE
— RESOURCE_START
For more information, see “Parameters for Configuring EMS
Resources” on page 176, and the resource_ parameter descriptions
starting on page 299.
NOTE For legacy packages, DEFERRED resources must be specified in the
package control script.
• ACCESS_CONTROL_POLICY. You can grant a non-root user
PACKAGE_ADMIN privileges for this package.
See the entries for user_name, user_host, and user_role on
page 308, and “Controlling Access to the Cluster” on page 239, for
more information.
• If the package will depend on another package, enter values for
DEPENDENCY_NAME, DEPENDENCY_CONDITION, and
DEPENDENCY_LOCATION.
For more information, see the corresponding parameter descriptions
starting on page 293, and “About Package Dependencies” on
page 178.