Managing HP Serviceguard for Linux Ninth Edition, April 2009

6 Configuring Packages and Their Services
Serviceguard packages group together applications and the services and resources they
depend on.
The typical Serviceguard package is a failover package that starts on one node but can
be moved (“failed over”) to another if necessary. For more information, see “What is
Serviceguard for Linux? ” (page 23), “How the Package Manager Works” (page 49),
and“Package Configuration Planning ” (page 118).
You can also create multi-node packages, which run on more than one node at the
same time.
System multi-node packages, which run on all the nodes in the cluster, are supported
only for applications supplied by HP.
Creating or modifying a package requires the following broad steps, each of which is
described in the sections that follow:
1. Decide on the package’s major characteristics and choose the modules you need
to include (page 190).
2. Generate the package configuration file (page 214).
3. Edit the configuration file (page 215).
4. Verify and apply the package configuration (page 219).
5. Add the package to the cluster (page 220).
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