HP Serviceguard for Linux Version A.11.19 Release Notes, October 2009

New Serviceguard Manager Features
HP Serviceguard Manager supports Serviceguard A.11.19, Red Hat RHEL 5.2, and
SUSE SLES 10 and SLES 11. The following are new capabilities:
• Enhanced cluster monitoring:
— Summarize package status iconically with drill-down to specific problem
descriptions
— Identify packages that cannot fail over
— Identify whether nodes and packages are halted or failed
— Identify package type (e.g. failover, multi-node system multi-node, Serviceguard
Extension for RAC)
— Identify Serviceguard nodes that are VMware guests
— Identify Serviceguard nodes that are Integrity VM hosts or guests
• Detect Serviceguard Extension for SAP
• Configuration enhancements
— Modular package configuration wizard
— Enhanced package dependencies configuration
— Improved cluster and package configuration validation
— Tooltips for cluster and package configuration parameters
— Cluster configuration wizard
— Support for cross-subnet configurations. See “About Cross-Subnet
Configurations” (page 29).
— Advanced cluster configuration options
• Ease-of-use improvements:
— Preview Administration operations (e.g. simulate an administration operation
such as “Halt Node”)
— Display Serviceguard patch version
— Context-sensitive links to Partition Manager
◦ Partition Manager is a free HP tool to configure and manage nPartitions on
HP server systems. If Partition Manager is not installed, a pop-up window
displays HTTP 404 – File not found. Partition Manager is a free product that
is included in the Operating Environment bundle on the HP-UX distribution
media. It also is included on the HP Integrity Essentials Foundation Pack
for Linux Management CD.
— Menu bar added on alert pages to act on problems
— Graphical view replacing table view as default view for the package
dependencies
— Improved run package operation
— Enhanced access to consolidated logs
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