3 Understanding Serviceguard Software Components

This chapter gives a broad overview of how the Serviceguard software components work. The following topics are presented:

Serviceguard Architecture

How the Cluster Manager Works (page 44)

How the Package Manager Works (page 50)

How Packages Run

How the Network Manager Works (page 67)

Volume Managers for Data Storage

Responses to Failures (page 88)

If you are ready to start setting up Serviceguard clusters, skip ahead to Chapter 5: “Building an HA Cluster Configuration” (page 158).

Serviceguard Architecture

The following figure shows the main software components used by Serviceguard. This chapter discusses these components in some detail.

NOTE: Veritas CFS may not yet be supported on the version of HP-UX you are running; see “About Veritas CFS and CVM from Symantec” (page 23).

Figure 10 Serviceguard Software Components

Serviceguard Daemons

Serviceguard uses the following daemons:

/usr/lbin/cmclconfd—Serviceguard Configuration Daemon

/usr/lbin/cmcld—Serviceguard Cluster Daemon

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