HP Serviceguard Toolkit for Oracle Data Guard manual Overview, Introduction

1 Introduction

The Enterprise Cluster Master Toolkit (ECMT) is a set of templates and scripts that allow the configuration of Serviceguard packages for internet servers as well as for third-party Database Management Systems. This unified set of high availability tools is being released on HP-UX 11i v2 and 11i v3.

Each Toolkit is a set of scripts specifically for individual application to start, stop, and monitor the application.

This set also helps to integrate popular applications into a Serviceguard cluster.

Overview

The ECMT is a collection of toolkits for popular applications to integrate them with the Serviceguard environment. ECMT consists of the following toolkits:

Toolkits for database applications:

•Oracle Toolkit

•Sybase Toolkit

•DB2 Toolkit

•MySQL Toolkit

Toolkits for internet applications:

•Apache Toolkit

•Tomcat Toolkit

•CIFS (Samba) Toolkit

For more information on the application versions supported by toolkit, see the compatibility matrix at HP Serviceguard Toolkit Compatibility Matrix (published April 2011 or later). See www.hp.com/ go/hpux-serviceguard-docs -> HP Serviceguard Enterprise Cluster Master Toolkit.

All ECMT Toolkits, except the Sybase toolkit, support both the modular style and the legacy style of packaging. The Sybase toolkit supports only Modular style of packaging. It is recommended that modular style of packaging is used because it has multiple advantages over the legacy style of packaging.

Users can use either the CLI or the SGMgr GUI interface to create the packages using Toolkits. See the http://www.hp.com/go/hpux-serviceguard-docs —>HP Serviceguard Manager.

The following toolkit supports deploying of applications over cluster file systems (CFS) storage.

•Oracle

•Apache

•Samba

These toolkit deployment over the CFS storage can reduce failover time for single instance applications.

Packages created using ECMT toolkit log messages to the package log file and also has the feature to send alert mails, whenever there is a major issue with the package. The location of the log and mail id is configurable for each package.

Apart from the ECMT Toolkit, there are set of other toolkits and application extensions which can be used to integrate other applications in Serviceguard. Table 1 (page 7) below shows the Toolkit name and applications supported by the toolkits.

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