Managing Serviceguard Nineteenth Edition, Reprinted June 2011

See Chapter 6 (page 216) for more information about package types.
• You cannot detach a package that is in maintenance mode, and you cannot place a package
into maintenance mode if any of its dependent packages are detached.
For more information about maintenance mode, see“Maintaining a Package: Maintenance
Mode” (page 273). For more information about dependencies, see “About Package
Dependencies” (page 128).
• You cannot make configuration changes to a cluster in which any packages are detached.
cmapplyconf (1m) will fail.
• You cannot halt detached packages while the cluster is down.
If you have halted a node and detached its packages, you can log in as superuser on any
other node still running in the cluster and halt any of the detached packages. But if you have
halted the cluster, you must restart it, re-attaching the packages, before you can halt any of
the packages
• If you are using LVM, all the cluster nodes must have Base LVM version B.11.31.0909 or
later.
• HPVM shared volume groups are not supported with Live Application detach.
• cmeval (1m) does not support Live Application Detach.
See “Previewing the Effect of Cluster Changes” (page 279) for more information about cmeval.
• In preview mode (-t) cmrunnode and cmruncl can provide only a partial assessment of
the effect of re-attaching packages.
The assessment may not accurately predict the placement of packages that depend on the
packages that will be re-attached. For more information about preview mode, see “Previewing
the Effect of Cluster Changes” (page 279).
• cmmodpkg -e -t is not supported for a detached package.
• You cannot run a package that has been detached.
This could come up if you detect that a package has failed while detached (and hence not
being monitored by Serviceguard). Before you could restart the package on another node,
you would need to run cmhaltpkg (1m) to halt the package on the node where it is
detached.
• You cannot halt a package that is in a transitory state such as STARTING or HALTING.
For more information about package states, see “Package Status and State” (page 249).
• You cannot detach a package that has relocatable IP addresses on a subnet that is not
configured into the cluster.
Such addresses will not be handled properly when the package is attached or re-attached.
IMPORTANT: HP does not recommend such configurations. See “ip_subnet” (page 231).
• You cannot detach packages when the HP-UX Clustered I/O Congestion Control feature is
enabled.
• As of the date of this manual, you cannot detach ECMT-based packages.
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