HP Serviceguard manual Types of Changes to Packages, Change servicerestart modular package

NOTE: All the nodes in the cluster must be powered up and accessible when you make package configuration changes.

Table 15 Types of Changes to Packages

Change to the Package	Required Package State
Delete a package or change	Package must not be running.
package name	NOTE: You cannot delete a package if another package has a dependency on
	it.

Change package type

Add or delete a module: modular package

Change run script contents: legacy package

Change halt script contents: legacy package

Add or delete a service: modular package

Package must not be running.

Package can be running.

Package can be running, but should not be starting.

Timing problems may occur if the script is changed while the package is starting.

Package can be running, but should not be halting.

Timing problems may occur if the script is changed while the package is halting.

Package can be running.

Serviceguard treats any change to service_name or service_cmd as deleting the existing service and adding a new one, meaning that the existing service is halted.

Add or delete a service: legacy package

Change service_restart: modular package

Package must not be running.

Package can be running.

Serviceguard will not allow the change if the new value is less than the current restart count. (You can use cmmodpkg -R<service_name> <package> to reset the restart count if you need to.)

Change SERVICE_RESTART:	Package must not be running.
legacy package
Add or remove a SUBNET (in	Package must not be running. (Also applies to cross-subnet configurations.)
control script): legacy package
Add or remove an ip_subnet:	Package can be running.
modular package	See “ip_subnet” (page 242) for important information. Serviceguard will reject
	the change if you are trying to add an ip_subnet that is not configured on all
	the nodes on the package's node_name list.
Add or remove an ip_address:	Package can be running.
modular package	See “ip_subnet” (page 242) and “ip_address” (page 243) for important
	information. Serviceguard will reject the change if you are trying to add an
	ip_address that cannot be configured on the specified ip_subnet, or is on
	a subnet that is not configured on all the nodes on the package's node_name
	list.

Add or remove an IP (in control script): legacy package

Add or delete nodes from package’s ip_subnet_node list in cross-subnet configurations (page 243)): modular package

Add, delete, or change

cluster_interconnect_subnet

Package must not be running. (Also applies to cross-subnet configurations.)

Package can be running.

Serviceguard will reject the change if you are trying to add a node on which the specified ip_subnet is not configured.

Package must not be running.

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