Managing Serviceguard Nineteenth Edition, Reprinted June 2011

• For each service the package will run, enter values for the following parameters (page 232):
◦ service_name (for example, a daemon or long-running process)
◦ service_cmd (for example, the command that starts the process)
◦ service_fail_fast_enabled and service_halt_timeout if you need to change
them from their defaults.
◦ service_restart if you want the package to restart the service if it exits. (A value of
unlimited can be useful if you want the service to execute in a loop, rather than exit
and halt the package.)
• To configure the package to monitor a registered EMS resource, enter values for the following
parameters (page 233):
◦ resource_name
◦ resource_polling_interval
◦ resource_up_value
◦ resource_start
See “Parameters for Configuring EMS Resources” (page 128) for more information and an
example.
• If the package needs to mount LVM volumes to file systems, use the vg parameters (page 236)
to specify the names of the volume groups to be activated, select the appropriate
vgchange_cmd, and use the fs_ options in the FILESYSTEMS portion of the configuration
file to specify the options for mounting and unmounting the file systems. Do not use the vxvm_dg
or cvm_dg parameters for LVM volume groups. Enter each volume group on a separate line,
for example:
vg vg01
vg vg02
• If you are using CVM disk group for raw storage (without CFS), use cvm_dg parameters
(page 236) to specify the names of the disk groups to be activated, select the appropriate
cvm_activation_cmd, and create a dependency (page 227) on SG_CFS_pkg. See “Creating
the Storage Infrastructure with Veritas Cluster Volume Manager (CVM)” (page 208).
Do not use the vxvm_dg or vg parameters for CVM disk groups.
Do not include CFS-based disk groups in the package configuration file; they are activated
by the CFS multi-node packages before standard packages are started. See “Creating a
Storage Infrastructure with Veritas Cluster File System (CFS)” (page 190).
• If you are using VxVM disk groups without CVM, enter the names of VxVM disk groups that
will be imported using vxvm_dg parameters. See “How Control Scripts Manage VxVM Disk
Groups” (page 246).
• If you are using mirrored VxVM disks, use (page 235) to specify the mirror recovery option to
be used by vxvol.
• Specify the file system mount retry and unmount count options (see (page 237)).
• You can specify a deactivation_retry_count for LVM, CVM, and VxVM volume groups.
See (page 236).
• You can specify whether or not to kill processes activating raw devices on shutdown; see
(page 236).
244 Configuring Packages and Their Services