Using Easy Deployment in Serviceguard and Metrocluster environments on HP-UX 11i v3

Package Easy Deployment in a Serviceguard cluster using

Serviceguard Manager

Introduction

Modular package configuration procedures for important applications need intensive manual effort

and involve several steps. From a command-line interface, these manual steps generally are:

• Generating package configuration file(s)

• Editing the required package parameter values

• Applying the package configuration

• Running the package

Users of Serviceguard Manager, too, need a longer lead time to deploy packages because they are

required to traverse multiple forms to provide parameters for configuring various package modules.

The traditional procedures of deployment are tedious, as they lack automation in performing

parameter discovery and setting up package dependencies.

Objective

The objective of the package Easy Deployment feature is to simplify and ease configuration of various

modular packages. This is to be accomplished with minimum or no parameter input by the user. It

must also take care of deploying package dependencies automatically. For example, during the

deployment of an Oracle Clusterware toolkit package, for each CFS used by Oracle Clusterware,

there will be a dependency configured from the Oracle Clusterware MNP to the mount point and disk

group MNP corresponding to that CFS. The mount point and disk group MNP in turn has a

dependency on the SG-CFS-pkg (SMNP). All of these dependencies are configured by package Easy

Deployment as required, automatically without any user interference.

Note: Package Easy Deployment is available only via Serviceguard Manager, and is not available as any Serviceguard

command-line tool/command.

Options supported

Serviceguard Manager provides options for Easy Deployment of:

• SGeRAC toolkit packages:

– The Oracle Clusterware toolkit package, which will also deploy corresponding mount point and

disk group package(s) if they do not exist in the cluster

– The Oracle RAC database toolkit package, which will also deploy Oracle Clusterware/Toolkit

and corresponding mount point and disk group package(s) if they do not exist in the cluster

• The Oracle Single Instance DB package using the ECMT Oracle toolkit, in a basic Serviceguard

cluster or a Metrocluster

• The SGeEBS applications tier toolkit package

• The Site Controller package