HP Serviceguard for Linux Version A.11.18 Deployment Guide, August 2008

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At the time of publication, the following patches were available:
SGLX_00222 (Red Hat 5.0 IA32) Serviceguard A.11.18.03
SGLX_00204 (Red Hat 5.0 IA32) Serviceguard Manager B.01.01.03
For the specific installation recommended in this deployment guide, Serviceguard for Linux version
A.11.18.02 or later must be used. This is required for support of the cluster lock LUN with HP Device
Mapper Multipath on Red Hat 5.1 using the MSA2000.
Patches can be downloaded from HP at the following URLs:
http://itrc.hp.com (Americas and Asia Pacific)
http://europe.itrc.hp.com (Europe)
Instructions for downloading the patches from itrc.hp.com:
1. Go to http://itrc.hp.com.
2. Login.
3. Find the section (in center) titled “>> maintenance and support (hp products)”.
4. Click “>> patch database”.
5. Find the section titled “>>find individual patches”.
6. Click “>>Linux”.
7. On the “search for patches” page, choose the following options:
Step 1: Select vendor and version: “redhat”, version “5.0”.
Step 2: Select “Search by Keyword” (default), enter the keyword “Serviceguard”.
Step 3: Select Search Criteria: all words (default).
Step 4: Select Results per page: 25 (default).
8. Click the “search>>” button.
9. On the “search results” page, select the most recent Serviceguard and Serviceguard
Manager patches.
10. Click the “add to selected patch list>>” button.
11. On the “selected patch list” page, click the “download selected >>” button.
12. On “download patches” page, go to the “download items individually” section.
13. Click the “FTP>>” button to download the Serviceguard patch.
14. Select “Save” to save file to the local system (in the download directory, for example,
c:\sglx_install). The downloaded file name is, for example, sglx_00222.tar.
15. Click the “FTP>>” button to download the Serviceguard Manager patch.
16. Select “Save” to save file to the local system (in the download directory, for example,
c:\sglx_install). The downloaded file name is, for example, sglx_00204.tar.
NOTE: The instructions in this deployment guide assume each patch is downloaded individually.
5. Java JDK
Serviceguard Manager, the browser-based management interface for Serviceguard, requires Java
1.4.2.16 JDK or greater. The latest version of the Java 5 JDK is recommended. As of the publication
date of this deployment guide, Java 6 has not been tested by HP for Serviceguard Manager.
The Java JDK is available from Sun at the following URL:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/download.html
1. Go to this website to download the latest Java 5 JDK.
2. Follow the instructions for downloading the Linux RPM in a self-extracting file.
The instructions in this document assume the reader downloads the “Linux RPM in self-extracting file”.