HP Enterprise Cluster Master Toolkit User Guide (5900-2131, December 2011)

1 Introduction
The Enterprise Cluster Master Toolkit (ECMT) is a set of templates and scripts that allow the
configuration of Serviceguard packages for internet servers as well as for third-party Database
Management Systems. This unified set of high availability tools is being released on HP-UX 11i v2
and 11i v3.
Each Toolkit is a set of scripts specifically for individual application to start, stop, and monitor the
application.
This set also helps to integrate popular applications into a Serviceguard cluster.
Overview
The ECMT is a collection of toolkits for popular applications to integrate them with the Serviceguard
environment. ECMT consists of the following toolkits:
Toolkits for database applications:
• Oracle Toolkit
• Sybase Toolkit
• DB2 Toolkit
• MySQL Toolkit
Toolkits for internet applications:
• Apache Toolkit
• Tomcat Toolkit
• CIFS (Samba) Toolkit
For more information on the application versions supported by toolkit, see the compatibility matrix
at HP Serviceguard Toolkit Compatibility Matrix (published April 2011 or later). See www.hp.com/
go/hpux-serviceguard-docs -> HP Serviceguard Enterprise Cluster Master Toolkit.
All ECMT Toolkits, except the Sybase toolkit, support both the modular style and the legacy style
of packaging. The Sybase toolkit supports only Modular style of packaging. It is recommended to
use the modular style of packaging with all toolkits because it has multiple advantages over the
legacy style of packaging. For more information on the modular style of packaging see the
Managing Serviceguard Nineteenth Edition at http://www.hp.com/go/hpux-serviceguard-docs
—>HP Serviceguard.
Users can use either the CLI or the Serviceguard Manager interface to create the packages using
Toolkits. See the http://www.hp.com/go/hpux-serviceguard-docs —>HP Serviceguard Manager.
The following toolkit supports deploying of applications over cluster file systems (CFS) storage.
• Oracle
• Apache
• Samba
These toolkit deployment over the CFS storage can reduce failover time for single instance
applications.
Packages created using an ECMT toolkit log messages to the package log file, and toolkit can
also send alert mails whenever there is a major issue with the package. The location of the log
and mail id is configurable for each package.
Apart from the ECMT Toolkit, there are other toolkits and application extensions which can be
used to integrate other applications in Serviceguard. Table 1 (page 7) below shows the Toolkit
name and applications supported by each of the toolkits.
6 Introduction