Using Easy Deployment in Serviceguard and Metrocluster environments on HP-UX 11i v3 - (March 2012)

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 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

• The DB2 package

• The SGeSAP package