Managing Serviceguard Sixteenth Edition, March 2009

5 Building an HA Cluster Configuration
This chapter and the next take you through the configuration tasks required to set up
a Serviceguard cluster. These procedures are carried out on one node, called the
configuration node, and the resulting binary file is distributed by Serviceguard to all
the nodes in the cluster. In the examples in this chapter, the configuration node is named
ftsys9, and the sample target node is called ftsys10. This chapter describes the
following tasks:
• Preparing Your Systems
• Configuring the Cluster (page 216)
• Managing the Running Cluster (page 246)
Configuring packages is described in the next chapter.
Preparing Your Systems
This section describes the tasks that should be done on the prospective cluster nodes
before you actually configure the cluster. It covers the following topics:
• Installing and Updating Serviceguard
• Learning Where Serviceguard Files Are Kept (page 194)
• Configuring Root-Level Access (page 194)
• Configuring Name Resolution (page 196)
• Ensuring Consistency of Kernel Configuration (page 199)
• Enabling the Network Time Protocol (page 199)
• Tuning Network and Kernel Parameters (page 200)
• Creating Mirrors of Root Logical Volumes (page 200)
• Choosing Cluster Lock Disks (page 202)
• Setting Up a Lock LUN (page 202)
• Setting Up and Running the Quorum Server (page 206)
• Creating the Storage Infrastructure and Filesystems with LVM, VxVM and CVM
(page 206)
Installing and Updating Serviceguard
For information about installing Serviceguard, see the Release Notes for your version
at http://docs.hp.com -> High Availability -> Serviceguard ->
Release Notes.
For information about installing and updating HP-UX, see the HP-UX Installation and
Update Guide for the version you need: go to http://docs.hp.com and choose the
HP-UX version from the list under Operating Environments, then choose
Installing and Updating.
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