Managing HP Serviceguard A.11.20.20 for Linux, May 2013

A.5 Handling Application Failures .........................................................................................273
A.5.1 Create Applications to be Failure Tolerant ..................................................................273
A.5.2 Be Able to Monitor Applications ..............................................................................274
A.6 Minimizing Planned Downtime ........................................................................................274
A.6.1 Reducing Time Needed for Application Upgrades and Patches .....................................274
A.6.1.1 Provide for Rolling Upgrades .............................................................................274
A.6.1.2 Do Not Change the Data Layout Between Releases ..............................................275
A.6.2 Providing Online Application Reconfiguration ............................................................275
A.6.3 Documenting Maintenance Operations .....................................................................275
B Integrating HA Applications with Serviceguard...........................................277
B.1 Checklist for Integrating HA Applications ...........................................................................277
B.1.1 Defining Baseline Application Behavior on a Single System ...........................................278
B.1.2 Integrating HA Applications in Multiple Systems ..........................................................278
B.1.3 Testing the Cluster ...................................................................................................278
C Blank Planning Worksheets ....................................................................281
C.1 Hardware Worksheet .....................................................................................................281
C.2 Power Supply Worksheet ................................................................................................281
C.3 Quorum Server Worksheet .............................................................................................282
C.4 Volume Group and Physical Volume Worksheet .................................................................282
C.5 Cluster Configuration Worksheet .....................................................................................283
C.6 Package Configuration Worksheet ...................................................................................283
C.7 Package Control Script Worksheet (Legacy).......................................................................284
D IPv6 Network Support.............................................................................285
D.1 IPv6 Address Types..........................................................................................................285
D.1.1 Textual Representation of IPv6 Addresses.....................................................................285
D.1.2 IPv6 Address Prefix...................................................................................................286
D.1.3 Unicast Addresses....................................................................................................286
D.1.4 IPv4 and IPv6 Compatibility......................................................................................286
D.1.4.1 IPv4 Compatible IPv6 Addresses.........................................................................286
D.1.4.2 IPv4 Mapped IPv6 Address...............................................................................286
D.1.4.3 Aggregatable Global Unicast Addresses.............................................................287
D.1.4.4 Link-Local Addresses.........................................................................................287
D.1.4.5 Site-Local Addresses.........................................................................................287
D.1.4.6 Multicast Addresses..........................................................................................287
D.2 Network Configuration Restrictions....................................................................................288
D.3 Configuring IPv6 on Linux................................................................................................288
D.3.1 Enabling IPv6 on Red Hat Linux.................................................................................289
D.3.2 Adding persistent IPv6 Addresses on Red Hat Linux.....................................................289
D.3.3 Configuring a Channel Bonding Interface with Persistent IPv6 Addresses on Red Hat
Linux..............................................................................................................................289
D.3.4 Adding Persistent IPv6 Addresses on SUSE.................................................................289
D.3.5 Configuring a Channel Bonding Interface with Persistent IPv6 Addresses on SUSE............290
E Using Serviceguard Manager...................................................................291
E.1 About the Online Help System...........................................................................................291
E.2 Launching Serviceguard Manager.....................................................................................291
E.2.1 Scenario 1 - Single cluster management......................................................................291
E.2.2 Scenario 2- Multi-Cluster Management.......................................................................292
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