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

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Parameter discovery and default parameters
By way of automatic package parameter discovery by the SGeEBS Easy Deployment operation, the
following package attributes are automatically populated in the SGeEBS Applications Tier Toolkit
package configuration file:
• Package name
• Toolkit directory name
• Service names
• Web entry IP
• Volume group, LVM, mount point, and file system
If a separate storage has been used for EBS instance-specific and application tier stack file system,
then the storage information will be populated appropriately in the package configuration.
All other package parameters will be set to default values.
Error and exception handling
An error message will appear in the Serviceguard Manager package Easy Deployment operation log
window, if the SGeEBS package Easy Deployment operation fails for one or more of the following
reasons:
• The package directory that the operation is trying to create for the package already exists.
• An unexpected error occurs during the SGeEBS applications package deployment operation.
Limitations
The Easy Deployment feature for the SGeEBS applications tier toolkit package supports only modular
style of packaging.
Easy Deployment of a Site Controller package
Introduction
The configuration of a Site Controller package is a multi-step process that requires editing multiple
package configurations. The following are the steps required to configure a Site Controller package
manually.
1. Selecting the appropriate Metrocluster module while creating the Site Controller package
configuration. Ex. cmmakepkg –m dts/sc –m dts/mcxpca <pkg_name>.conf
2. Applying the empty Site Controller package configuration file with the site and node information.
3. Editing the root-most complex workload packages’ configuration and inserting the resource
dependency for site safety latch
4. Re-applying the edited complex workload packages’ configuration
5. Editing the Site Controller package configuration and entering the complex workload package
information and the Metrocluster module parameters values
6. Re-applying the edited Site Controller configuration
Please refer to the chapter on “Designing a disaster recovery solution using site-aware disaster-tolerant
architecture” in the latest version of the Designing Disaster Recovery Clusters using Metroclusters and
Continentalclusters, available at
www.hp.com/go/hpux-serviceguard-docs.
Objective
The objective of package Easy Deployment is to make the deployment of a Site Controller package a
single-step process. The user needs to select the complex workload packages in each site and click a
button to generate all the configuration files required for the proper deployment of a Site Controller
package.