Serviceguard NFS Toolkit A.11.11.06, A.11.23.05 and A.11.31.03 Administrator's Guide

NOTE: Serviceguard A.11.18 introduces the concepts of modular packages which allows

packages to be created using building blocks that comprise only the functions that the package

needs. It also includes some changes to the variable names in the package control and

configuration files created with the cmmakepkg command. Creation of modular packages is not

supported in this version of Serviceguard NFS Toolkit, but will be supported in a future version.

The variable name changes in the package control and configuration files will be reflected in a

future version of this white paper.

Serviceguard NFS over CFS Packages without File Locking

Each active server in the cluster needs to run an export multi-node package and an NFS failover

package. An export multi-node package is a package that runs on each server in the cluster and

exports all the cluster file systems. Each standby server (i.e. a server that is just an adoptive node

for NFS failover packages) needs to have an export multi-node package running to be able to

become active in the event of a failover.

Figure 2–2 shows an example Serviceguard over CFS configuration with two servers, each with

an NFS failover package and a multi-node export package.

Figure 2-2 Serviceguard over CFS without file locking

Configuring a Serviceguard NFS export package

There should only be one NFS export multi-node package per cluster. This package will run on

each server in the cluster.

NOTE: All steps in this section should be done on a single server.

1. Create the nfs-export.conf and nfs-export.cntl files with the cmmakepkg command. Use the

-p option to create the nfs-export.conf file and the -s option to create the nfs-export.cntl