Managing HP Serviceguard for Linux Ninth Edition, April 2009

uninterruptible power source. For more details, refer to the section on “Power Supply
Planning” in Chapter 4, “Planning and Documenting an HA Cluster.”
Serviceguard is designed to work in conjunction with other high availability products,
such as disk arrays, which use various RAID levels for data protection; and
HP-supported uninterruptible power supplies (UPS), which eliminate failures related
to power outage. HP recommends these products; in conjunction with Serviceguard
they provide the highest degree of availability.
Using Serviceguard Manager
NOTE: For more-detailed information, see Appendix E (page 325), and the section on
Serviceguard Manager in the latest version of the Serviceguard Release Notes. Check
the Serviceguard/SGeRAC/SMS/Serviceguard Manager Plug-in Compatibility and Feature
Matrix and the latest Release Notes for up-to-date information about Serviceguard
Manager compatibility. You can find both documents at http://www.docs.hp.com
-> High Availability -> Serviceguard.
Serviceguard Manager is the graphical user interface for Serviceguard. It is available
as a “plug-in” to the web-based HP System Management Homepage (HP SMH).
You can use Serviceguard Manager to monitor, administer, and configure Serviceguard
clusters.
• You can see properties, status, and alerts of cluster, nodes, and packages.
• You can do administrative tasks such as run or halt clusters, cluster nodes, and
packages.
• You can create or modify a cluster and its packages.
See the latest Release Notes for your version of Serviceguard for Linux for an
introduction to using Serviceguard Manager, and the
Serviceguard/SGeRAC/SMS/Serviceguard Manager Plug-in Compatibility and Feature Matrix
for up-to-date information about Serviceguard Manager compatibility (http://
www.docs.hp.com -> High Availability -> Serviceguard for Linux).
Monitoring Clusters with Serviceguard Manager
From the main page of Serviceguard Manager, you can see status and alerts for the
cluster, nodes, and packages. You can also drill down to see the configuration and
alerts of the cluster, nodes, and packages.
26 Serviceguard for Linux at a Glance