Serviceguard Manager Version A.04.02 Release Notes, February 2005

Serviceguard Manager Version A.04.02 Release Notes
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Serviceguard Manager is the graphical user interface for the
Serviceguard product. With it, you can monitor, administer, and
configure clusters managed by Serviceguard, Serviceguard Extension for
RAC, Metrocluster, Continentalclusters, and Serviceguard Extension for
Faster Failover.
Serviceguard Manager replaces the functionality of the earlier
Serviceguard management tools, ClusterView and the SAM High
Availability tool. It can be launched independently, from HP Systems
Insight Manager, or from OpenView.
You install Serviceguard Manager on a management station, which can
be any computer running HP-UX, Linux, or Windows. From there, you
connect to a node with Serviceguard version A.11.13 or later. This node
becomes your Session Server; it will go out on its subnets and query for
information about Serviceguard objects. You can see the discovered
clusters, nodes, and packages in your session on the tree and map, with
more detail in Properties and Alerts.
An icon on the toolbar warns you about new problems, whether or not
you can see the Serviceguard object in your current view.
High-availability alerts are posted when Serviceguard Manager polls.
The Alerts window has aids for analyzing the problems.
If the Session Server and target clusters are running Serviceguard
version A.11.14 or later, you can also do the most common
administrative commands through the interface. The supported actions
are:
• Run or halt a cluster, node, or package
• Move a package to a new node
• Change package- and node-switching flags
If the Session Server and target nodes and cluster have Serviceguard
A.11.16 or later installed, you can also create and modify Serviceguard
configuration of clusters and packages.