NOTE
Configuring HyperFabric
Configuring HyperFabric with ServiceGuard
Configuring HyperFabric with ServiceGuard
HyperFabric supports the ServiceGuard HA product.
If you plan to configure HyperFabric with ServiceGuard, please read this section. Otherwise, skip this section and go on to the next section, “Configuring HMP for Transparent Local Failover Support” on page 96.
ServiceGuard lets you create HA clusters of HP 9000 server systems. Within the cluster, ServiceGuard allows you to group your application services (individual
ServiceGuard directly monitors cluster nodes, LAN interfaces, and services, which are the individual processes within an application. In addition, specialized monitors might be supplied by the developers of other components. The HyperFabric monitor is supplied with the HyperFabric product and is installed with it. To use the HyperFabric monitor with ServiceGuard, you configure the monitor as an ServiceGuard package dependency.
Although HyperFabric can be used by an application within a package to communicate with other nodes, it is not possible to use HyperFabric as a heartbeat LAN. So, in a package control script, do not specify HyperFabric IPs/subnets in the lines that contain the keywords IP[n] and SUBNET[n]. Also, cmquerycl will not “discover” and report HyperFabric IPs and subnets.
After you have configured HyperFabric as a package dependency, ServiceGuard’s package manager calls the Event Monitoring Service (EMS) to launch an external monitor for HyperFabric. The package will not start unless the monitor reports that HyperFabric is available, and the package will fail when HyperFabric’s status is DOWN (that is, when all HyperFabric adapters on a node become
Complete instructions for configuring ServiceGuard clusters and packages are provided in the manual, “Managing MC/ServiceGuard”.
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