Managing HP Serviceguard for Linux, Seventh Edition, July 2007

Configuring Packages and Their Services
Choosing Package Modules
Chapter 6 201
Package Parameter Explanations
Brief descriptions of the package configuration parameters follow.
NOTE For more information, see the comments in the editable configuration file
output by the cmmakepkg command, and the cmmakepkg (1m) manpage.
If you are going to browse these explanations deciding which parameters
you need, you may want to generate and print out a configuration file
that has the comments for all of the parameters; you can create such a
file as follows:
cmmakepkg -m sg/all $SGCONF/sg-all
or simply
cmmakepkg $SGCONF/sg-all
This creates a file $SGCONF/sg-all that contains all the parameters and
comments. (See “Understanding the Location of Serviceguard Files” on
page 140 for the location of $SGCONF on your version of Linux.)
More detailed instructions for running cmmakepkg are in the next
section, “Generating the Package Configuration File” on page 217. See
also “Package Configuration Planning” on page 113.
package_name
Any name, up to a maximum of 39 characters, that:
• starts and ends with an alphanumeric character
• otherwise contains only alphanumeric characters or dot (.), dash (-),
or underscore (_)
• is unique among package names in this cluster
IMPORTANT Restrictions on package names in previous Serviceguard releases
were less stringent. Packages whose names do not conform to the
above rules will continue to run, but if you reconfigure them, you will
need to change the name; cmcheckconf and cmapplyconf will
enforce the new rules.