Migrating Symantec Veritas Cluster Server to HP Serviceguard for Linux

Technical white paper | Migrating Symantec Veritas Cluster Server to HP Serviceguard for Linux

Figure 6. HP SMH Serviceguard Manager plug-in showing a SG/LX cluster

Serviceguard command-line interface

Serviceguard provides rich set of commands to administer cluster and packages. The following table compares some of the

important VCS command with SG/LX commands.

Mapping of some important VCS commands to SG/LX commands

Table 5. Some important commands of VCS and SG/LX

VCS command Description Corresponding SG/LX command

1 Hastart To start the cluster cmruncl

2 Hastop To halt the cluster cmhaltcl

3 hagrp –online <service group> -sys <system> To bring up a service group/package cmrunpkg [-n node_name] <package>

4 hagrp –offline <service group> -sys <system> To halt a service group/package cmhaltpkg [-n node_name] <package>

5 hastatus –sum To view the cluster status Cmviewcl

6 haconf -makerw

hagrp -add <service_group>

haconf -dump –makero

To add/create service group or package cmmakepkg <package_configuration_file>

fill the package configuration_file

cmapplyconf –p <package_configuration_file>