HP manual Integrating HA Applications with Serviceguard 354, Software Upgrades 357, 349

Use Restartable Transactions	344
Use Checkpoints	344
Balance Checkpoint Frequency with Performance	344
Design for Multiple Servers	344
Design for Replicated Data Sites	345
Designing Applications to Run on Multiple Systems	345
Avoid Node-Specific Information	345
Obtain Enough IP Addresses	346
Allow Multiple Instances on Same System	346
Avoid Using SPU IDs or MAC Addresses	346
Assign Unique Names to Applications	346
Use DNS	346
Use uname(2) With Care	347
Bind to a Fixed Port	347
Bind to Relocatable IP Addresses	347
Call bind() before connect()	348
Give Each Application its Own Volume Group	348
Use Multiple Destinations for SNA Applications	348
Avoid File Locking	348
Using a Relocatable Address as the Source Address for an Application that is Bound to
INADDR_ANY	349
Restoring Client Connections	350
Handling Application Failures	351
Create Applications to be Failure Tolerant	351
Be Able to Monitor Applications	351
Minimizing Planned Downtime	352
Reducing Time Needed for Application Upgrades and Patches	352
Provide for Rolling Upgrades	352
Do Not Change the Data Layout Between Releases	352
Providing Online Application Reconfiguration	353
Documenting Maintenance Operations	353
C Integrating HA Applications with Serviceguard	354
Checklist for Integrating HA Applications	354
Defining Baseline Application Behavior on a Single System	354
Integrating HA Applications in Multiple Systems	355
Testing the Cluster	356
D Software Upgrades	357
Special Considerations for Upgrade to Serviceguard A.11.20	357
Special Considerations for Upgrade to Serviceguard A.11.19	357
How To Tell when the Cluster Re-formation Is Complete	358
Types of Upgrade	358
Rolling Upgrade	358
Rolling Upgrade Using DRD	358
Restrictions for DRD Upgrades	359
Non-Rolling Upgrade	359
Non-Rolling Upgrade Using DRD	359
Migration with Cold Install	359
Guidelines for Rolling Upgrade	359
Performing a Rolling Upgrade	360
Limitations of Rolling Upgrades	360
Before You Start	361
Running the Rolling Upgrade	361
Keeping Kernels Consistent	361
Migrating cmclnodelist entries from A.11.15 or earlier	361

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