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Lab 1 — Preparing the Systems for Serviceguard

Objective..............................................................................................................................1
Requirements........................................................................................................................1
Special lab considerations.....................................................................................................2
Installing software and diagramming systems......................................................................3
Performing additional system setup tasks.............................................................................5
Lab 2 — Configuring for Serviceguard
Objective..............................................................................................................................1
Requirements........................................................................................................................1
Exercise 1 — Setting up shared disk storage........................................................................2
Exercise 2 — Creating and sharing the VG..........................................................................3
Configuring a second group of shared disk volumes..................................................8
Configuring a second shared disk with LVM.............................................................8
Exercise 3 — Networking setup.........................................................................................13
Exercise 4 — Configuring a second shared disk with VxVM.............................................15
Creating a disk group and volumes for sharing........................................................17
Lab 3 — Configuring the Cluster
Objective..............................................................................................................................1
After completing this lab, you should be able to configure a two-node HP Serviceguard
cluster...................................................................................................................................1
Requirements........................................................................................................................1
Configuring a Serviceguard cluster......................................................................................2
Lab 4 — Cluster Volume Management
Objective..............................................................................................................................1
Requirements........................................................................................................................1
Exercise 1 — Managing LVM in a cluster............................................................................2
Exercise 2 — Managing VxVM in a cluster.......................................................................11

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Lab 5 — Understanding Cluster Autostart

Objective..............................................................................................................................1
Requirement.........................................................................................................................1
Exercise 1 — Rebooting a node in the cluster......................................................................2
Exercise 2 — Enabling Cluster Autostart.............................................................................4
Lab 6 — Understanding Cluster Quorum Arbitration
Objective..............................................................................................................................1
Requirement.........................................................................................................................1
Exercise 1 – Quorum arbitration when a node fails..............................................................2
Exercise 2 – Quorum arbitration when networking fails.......................................................7
Lab 7 — Configuring a Base Package
Objective..............................................................................................................................1
Requirement.........................................................................................................................1
Configuring a base package..................................................................................................2
Lab 8 — Integrating an Application into a Base Package
Objective..............................................................................................................................1
Requirement.........................................................................................................................1
Exercise 1 — Integrating the application..............................................................................2
Exercise 2 — Simulating a failover......................................................................................5
Lab 9 — Monitoring Key Application Processes
Objectives.............................................................................................................................1
Requirement.........................................................................................................................1
Exercise 1 — Configuring package services........................................................................2
Exercise 2 — Exploring service functionality......................................................................6
Lab 10 — Online Reconfiguration
Objectives.............................................................................................................................1
Requirement.........................................................................................................................1
Exercise 1 — Reconfiguring packages online......................................................................1
Exercise 2 — Reconfiguring nodes online............................................................................4
Exercise 3 — Reconfiguring the cluster.............................................................................10

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Lab 11 — Troubleshooting Packages

Objectives.............................................................................................................................1
Requirement.........................................................................................................................1
Exercise 1 — Installing a package with problems................................................................2
Exercise 2 — Troubleshooting the package..........................................................................4
Lab 12 — Using Tools and Troubleshooting
Objectives.............................................................................................................................1
Requirement.........................................................................................................................1
Exercise 1 — Using the tools...............................................................................................2
Exercise 2 — Troubleshooting cluster lock disk corruption.................................................5
Lab 13 — Using Serviceguard Manager
Objectives.............................................................................................................................1
Requirement.........................................................................................................................1
Exercise 1 — Using Serviceguard Manager.........................................................................2
Exercise 2 — Creating a package using Serviceguard Manager...........................................4
Exercise 3 — Role-based access using Serviceguard Manager............................................8
Lab 14 — Using the Event Monitoring Service (Optional)
Objectives.............................................................................................................................1
Requirement.........................................................................................................................1
Exercise 1 — Creating a package with resource monitoring................................................2
Exercise 2 — Modifying a package to use resource monitoring...........................................4
Lab 15 — Using the NFS Toolkit Package (Optional)
Objective..............................................................................................................................1
Requirement.........................................................................................................................1
Building a highly available NFS server................................................................................2
Lab 16 — Using the Apache Toolkit Package (Optional)
Objective..............................................................................................................................1
Requirement.........................................................................................................................1
Building a highly available Apache Web server....................................................................2

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