Serviceguard Manager Version A.05.02 Release Notes, March 2009

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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.
NOTE: HP Serviceguard Manager has a web-based, (SIM) Systems Insight Management/System
Management Homepage (SMH) application, version B.xx.xx, that you can use to simplify the management
of Serviceguard versions A.11.17.01 and later. Refer to the Serviceguard Release Notes (B3935-90124)
for more information.
Serviceguard Manager replaces the functionality of the earlier Serviceguard management tools, ClusterView
and the SAM High Availability tool. It can be launched independently, or from the OpenView or HP Systems
Insight Manager menus.
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, versions A.11.15.00 through
A.11.17.01, installed. The connecting 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 alerts icon on the toolbar warns you about new problems, whether or not you can see the Serviceguard
object in your current view. Clicking on the alerts icon shows high availability alerts, and the Alerts window
has information for analyzing the problems.
If the Session Server and target clusters are running Serviceguard version A.11.15.00 through A.11.17.01,
also do the most common administrative commands through the interface. The supported actions are:
• Run or halt a cluster, a node, or a failover or System Multi-node package
• Move a failover package to a new node
• Change package-switching and node-switching flags for failover packages
If the Session Server and target nodes and cluster have Serviceguard A.11.16.xx or A.11.17.xx installed,
you can also create and modify Serviceguard configuration of clusters and failover packages.
If your HP-UX cluster nodes are configured for SNMP, you can receive their SNMP cluster trap messages in
the SNMP Browser window. You can set your management station as an SNMP trap destination from a tab
in the window. In the Serviceguard Manager display, you can sort and re-organize the message order.
Serviceguard Manager can be installed on HP-UX, Linux, and Windows. The software for each platform is
available free from the web at www.hp.com/go/softwaredepot. Serviceguard Manager is also one of
the products delivered on the Distributed Components CD that comes free with Serviceguard:
▲ Product T1905BA software and license
The Serviceguard Manager interface is available in 5 languages:
▲ English
▲ Japanese
▲ Korean
▲ Simplified Chinese
▲ Traditional Chinese
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