Setting up HP SIM 5.x on an HP-UX Serviceguard Cluster (448492-002, January 2009)

Abstract
This white paper is intended to assist IT professionals installing HP Systems Insight Manager 5.x (HP
SIM) on HP Serviceguard Clusters for HP-UX. The following scenario is explained.
• Setting up the common share volume (Primary and Secondary Node)
• Setting up Serviceguard
• Setting up the Application
• Setting up the Package and Services
• Testing the Failover
Introduction
HP Serviceguard is a specialized high availability clustering software for protecting mission-critical
applications from a wide variety of hardware and software failures. Installing HP Systems Insight
Manager on a high availability computer system will allow application services to continue in spite of
a hardware or software failure. Highly available systems protect users from software failures as well
as from failure of a system processing unit (SPU), disk, or local area network (LAN) component. In the
event that one component fails, the redundant component takes over, allowing HP SIM to continue
monitoring your environment. This paper assumes HP Serviceguard is installed and running. Figure 1
below displays the cluster configuration used for this paper with each node assigned an IP Address.
Figure 1 Basic cluster configuration with Storage Array