Managing Serviceguard Sixteenth Edition, March 2009

Preface

This sixteenth printing of the manual applies to Serviceguard Version A.11.19. Earlier

versions are available at http://www.docs.hp.com -> High Availability

-> Serviceguard.

This guide describes how to configure Serviceguard to run on HP 9000 or HP Integrity

servers under the HP-UX operating system. The contents are as follows:

• “Serviceguard at a Glance” (page 29), describes a Serviceguard cluster and provides

a roadmap for using this guide.

• “Understanding Serviceguard Hardware Configurations” (page 37) provides a

general view of the hardware configurations used by Serviceguard.

• “Understanding Serviceguard Software Components” (page 53) describes the

software components of Serviceguard and shows how they function within the

HP-UX operating system.

• “Planning and Documenting an HA Cluster ” (page 123) steps through the planning

process and provides a set of worksheets for organizing information about the

cluster.

• “Building an HA Cluster Configuration” (page 193) describes the creation of the

cluster configuration.

• “Configuring Packages and Their Services ” (page 253) describes the creation of

high availability packages and the control scripts associated with them.

• “Cluster and Package Maintenance” (page 297) presents the basic cluster

administration tasks.

• “Troubleshooting Your Cluster” (page 361) explains cluster testing and

troubleshooting strategies.

• “Enterprise Cluster Master Toolkit ” (page 385) describes a group of tools to simplify

the integration of popular applications with Serviceguard.

• “Designing Highly Available Cluster Applications ” (page 387)gives guidelines for

creating cluster-aware applications that provide optimal performance in a

Serviceguard environment.

• “Integrating HA Applications with Serviceguard” (page 403),” presents suggestions

for integrating your existing applications with Serviceguard.

• “Software Upgrades ” (page 407)shows how to move from one Serviceguard or

HP-UX release to another without bringing down your applications.

• “Blank Planning Worksheets” (page 419),” contains a set of empty worksheets for

preparing a Serviceguard configuration.

• “Migrating from LVM to VxVM Data Storage ” (page 427),” describes how to

convert from LVM data storage to VxVM data storage.

• “IPv6 Network Support” (page 433) describes the IPv6 addressing scheme and the

primary/standby interface configurations supported.