Migrating Symantec Veritas Cluster Server to HP Serviceguard for Linux

Technical white paper | Migrating Symantec Veritas Cluster Server to HP Serviceguard for Linux
VCS service group
attributes, which can be
editable by users
Corresponding SG/LX package attributes
(equivalent to some extent) present in
package ASCII file, which can be editable
by users
Descriptions
11 FaultPropagation No attribute In VCS, the “FaultPropagation” attribute specifies if VCS should
propagate the fault up to parent resources and take the entire
service group offline when a resource faults.
In Serviceguard, failure of any configured resource in a package
can cause the package to failover.
12 GroupOwner email_id In VCS, the “GroupOwner” attribute is used for VCS email
notification and logging. VCS sends email notification to the
person designated in this attribute when events occur that are
related to the service group. Note that while VCS logs most
events, not all events trigger notifications.
In Serviceguard, the “Alert notification” feature is used to send
mail to the configured email aliases on the package failure events.
13 GroupRecipients email_id In VCS, the “GroupRecipients” attribute is used for VCS email
notification. VCS sends email notification to persons designated in
this attribute when events related to the service group occur and
when the event’s severity level is equal to or greater than the
level specified in the attribute.
In Serviceguard, the “Alert notification” feature is used to send
mail to the configured emails on the package failure events.
14 Guests user_name, user_host, and user_role In VCS, the “Guests” attribute is used to provide Guest privileges to
the list of OS user on the service group.
In Serviceguard, access control policy parameters are used to
grant read-only privilege to users by specifying “MONITOR” as
USER_ROLE.
15 Load weight_name and weight_value In VCS, the “Load” attribute specifies an integer value expressing
total system load the service group can put on a system.
In Serviceguard, the “weight_name” and “weight_value” attributes
are used to define the weight of an SG/LX package. The value of
“weight_name” should be the same as one of the capacities
defined in the cluster. The value of a package’s weight gets
subtracted from the node’s capacity value where the package
runs on that node.
16 ManageFaults No attribute In VCS, the “ManageFaults” attribute specifies if VCS manages
resource failures within the service group by calling the clean
function for the resources.
In Serviceguard, on the failure of package, manual intervention is
needed to do a proper cleanup.
17 ManualOps No attribute In VCS, the “ManualOps” attribute indicates if manual operations
are allowed on the service group.
Serviceguard does not recommend performing manual operation
on packages.
18 OnlineRetryLimit service_restart In VCS, the “OnlineRetryLimit” attribute specifies the number of
times a VCS engine tries to restart a faulted service group on the
same system on which the service group faulted, before it gives
up and tries to fail over the group to another system.
In Serviceguard, the “service_restart” attribute specifies the
number of time the service of the package can be restarted on a
particular node.
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