Managing Systems and Workgroups: A Guide for HP-UX System Administrators

Using High Availability Strategies
Other High Availability Products and Features
Appendix A960
Other High Availability Products and
Features
High Availability Monitors
High availability monitors allow you to check up on your system’s
resources and to be informed if problems develop. They can be used in
conjunction with Serviceguard. Monitors are available for disk resources,
cluster resources, network interfaces, system resources, and database
resources. When a monitor detects a problem, an alert is sent, allowing
an operator or administrator to correct the problem.
HP Reference Using High Availability Monitors
Enterprise Cluster Master Toolkit
The Enterprise Cluster Master Toolkit is a set of templates and scripts
that allow you to configure ServiceGuard packages for the HP Domain
Internet servers as well as for several third-party database management
systems. The master toolkit is a collection of specific product toolkits,
which include the following:
• HA Foundation Monitor toolkit, designed to monitor the status of an
entire mission critical environment.
• HA Internet toolkits for use with HP Domain server products.
• Database toolkits for Oracle, Informix, Sybase, and Progress
database management systems.
HP Reference Enterprise Cluster Master Toolkit Version B.01.03 Release Notes for
HP-UX 11i
MetroCluster
MetroCluster is a Hewlett-Packard high availability product for
Serviceguard customers requiring integrated disaster recovery solutions.
MetroCluster provides automated failover of ServiceGuard packages on
local and remote high availability disk arrays. Integrating MetroCluster
with Serviceguard allows application packages to fail over: