Managing HP Serviceguard for Linux, Tenth Edition, September 2012

Serviceguard is designed to work in conjunction with other high availability products,
such as disk arrays, which use various RAID levels for data protection; and HP-supported
uninterruptible power supplies (UPS), which eliminate failures related to power outage.
HP recommends these products; in conjunction with Serviceguard they provide the highest
degree of availability.
Using Serviceguard Manager
NOTE: For more-detailed information, see Appendix E (page 335), and the section on
Serviceguard Manager in the latest version of the Serviceguard Release Notes. Check
the Serviceguard/SGeRAC/SMS/Serviceguard Manager Plug-in Compatibility and
Feature Matrix and the latest Release Notes for up-to-date information about Serviceguard
Manager compatibility. You can find both documents at http://www.docs.hp.com
-> High Availability -> Serviceguard.
Serviceguard Manager is the graphical user interface for Serviceguard. It is available
as a “plug-in” to the web-based HP System Management Homepage (HP SMH).
You can use Serviceguard Manager to monitor, administer, and configure Serviceguard
clusters.
• You can see properties, status, and alerts of cluster, nodes, and packages.
• You can do administrative tasks such as run or halt clusters, cluster nodes, and
packages.
• You can create or modify a cluster and its packages.
See the latest Release Notes for your version of Serviceguard for Linux for an introduction
to using Serviceguard Manager, and the Serviceguard/SGeRAC/SMS/Serviceguard
Manager Plug-in Compatibility and Feature Matrix for up-to-date information about
Serviceguard Manager compatibility (http://www.docs.hp.com -> High
Availability -> Serviceguard for Linux).
Monitoring Clusters with Serviceguard Manager
From the main page of Serviceguard Manager, you can see status and alerts for the
cluster, nodes, and packages. You can also drill down to see the configuration and alerts
of the cluster, nodes, and packages.
Administering Clusters with Serviceguard Manager
You can administer clusters, nodes, and packages if access control policies permit:
• Cluster: halt, run
• Cluster nodes: halt, run
• Package: halt, run, move from one node to another, reset node- and
package-switching flags
22 Serviceguard for Linux at a Glance