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Introduction to high availability
- High availability concepts and terminology
- Causes of system failure
- High availability solutions
Introduction to Serviceguard
- Serviceguard features and benefits
- How Serviceguard works
- Components of a Serviceguard package
- Minimizing planned downtime
High availability planning
- Ways to reduce risks and enhance high availability
- Disk technologies for a high availability environment
- Network configurations for a high availability environment
- Configuration roadmap
LVM for Serviceguard
- Configure a shared volume group for a Serviceguard environment
- Export and import volume groups without having to specify disk devices
- Activate a shared volume group in an exclusive read/write access mode
- Logical Volume Manager (LVM) issues for using Serviceguard
Cluster concepts and configuration
- Components of a Serviceguard cluster
- Cluster formation requirements
- Procedure for defining, configuring and starting a cluster
- Monitoring the cluster
Additional cluster features
- Serviceguard volume groups
- LVM enhancements for Serviceguard that improve integrity of stored data
- Cluster formation and reformations, allowing flexible cluster management
- Local LAN card failover, providing redundancy protection for local LAN cards
Packages and services
- What is a package?
- View and modify package status
- Configure a basic package to run in a Serviceguard environment
- Package management and other cluster management commands
Application monitoring scripts
- Package control script
- Rules for service processes
- Application monitoring script
Packages policies
- Packaging and failover policies
- Rotating standby
- Failback policies and automatic failback
- Service versus node failure
Cluster and package online reconfiguration
- Serviceguard online reconfiguration
- Add or remove a node while the cluster is running
- Add or remove a package while the cluster is running
- Modify a package while the cluster is running (package may, or may not, be running)
LVM maintenance for packages
- Add or remove a disk to/from a volume group owned by a package
- Add or remove a logical volume to/from a volume group owned by a package
- Add or remove a volume group to/from a package
- Make a logical volume/file system in a volume group owned by a package larger or smaller
Best practices
- Monitor events and activities within a cluster
- Resolve cluster and package configuration issues
- Test cluster operations
- Troubleshoot cluster problems with contributed commands
Serviceguard Manager
- HP cluster monitoring tools, including Serviceguard Manager
- Serviceguard Manager and its components
- Navigating the Serviceguard Manager's Graphical User Interface
Highly available NFS
- Serviceguard NFS toolkit
- NFS control script
- Highly available NFS package
- LVM maintenance to the highly available NFS package
High availability networking
- Network redundancy
- Multi-network environment
- Redundant LAN cards, hubs, routers and client networks
EMS resources and Serviceguard packages
- Review of client/server management architecture
- Management Information Base (MIB) structure
- Event Monitoring Service (EMS) and use of resls command to list EMS resources
- Set up a Serviceguard package to use EMS resources
The Highly available Oracle 10g database
- Database toolkits and their contents
- Oracle control script modification
- Oracle monitor script
- Configuring Oracle 10g database to run in a Serviceguard environment
Rolling upgrade issues
- Using rolling upgrades to minimize planned downtime
- Rules/limitations for rolling upgrades
- Implementing rolling upgrades, with various examples
- When a rolling upgrade is not possible
Troubleshooting scenarios and final review
- Nine different Serviceguard configuration problems and how to resolve them
- Final review questions that test your knowledge of Serviceguard
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