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Re: HP-UX 10.2 - Service Guard - Setting up single node configuration?

 

HP-UX 10.2 - Service Guard - Setting up single node configuration?

I have two (2) HP9000K series HP-UX 10.2 servers running Service Guard clustering. One server crashed, and is going to be down awhile until we can order replacement parts. When it failed, it should have failed over the Service Guard package to the stanby server. That did not appear to go smoothly.

 

This is what I see on the (now) active server:

 

msphnyc1ROOT:cmviewcl -v

CLUSTER      STATUS
msphync      up

  NODE         STATUS       STATE
  msphnyc0     down         failed

    Network_Parameters:
    INTERFACE    STATUS       PATH         NAME
    PRIMARY      unknown      8/8/2/0      lan2
    PRIMARY      unknown      10/12/6      lan0
    PRIMARY      unknown      8/12/1/0     lan3
    STANDBY      unknown      8/12/2/0     lan4
    STANDBY      unknown      8/8/1/0      lan1

  NODE         STATUS       STATE
  msphnyc1     up           running

    Network_Parameters:
    INTERFACE    STATUS       PATH         NAME
    PRIMARY      up           8/8/2/0      lan2
    STANDBY      down         8/12/2/0     lan4
    PRIMARY      up           10/12/6      lan0
    PRIMARY      up           8/12/1/0     lan3
    STANDBY      up           8/8/1/0      lan1

    PACKAGE      STATUS       STATE        PKG_SWITCH   NODE
    msphp01      up           running      enabled      msphnyc1

      Script_Parameters:
      ITEM       STATUS   MAX_RESTARTS  RESTARTS   NAME
      Service    up                  0         0   cluster_running
      Subnet     up                                192.50.1.32
      Subnet     up                                192.50.2.32

      Node_Switching_Parameters:
      NODE_TYPE    STATUS       SWITCHING    NAME
      Primary      down                      msphnyc0
      Alternate    up           enabled      msphnyc1     (current)

 

The package (our application) looks correct, but it is not working properly. I'm wondering if somehow the crashed server is causing this application to not work correctly?

 

 

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Hakki Aydin Ucar
Honored Contributor

Re: HP-UX 10.2 - Service Guard - Setting up single node configuration?

You say failover not worked ?

when you look SG application in the inactive server (that it should have been be newly active node now) ,  what do you see ?

cmviewcl -v ??
Matti_Kurkela
Honored Contributor

Re: HP-UX 10.2 - Service Guard - Setting up single node configuration?

> I'm wondering if somehow the crashed server is causing this application to not work correctly?

 

That would mean the application depends on something that was not transferred to the standby server along with the package disk(s) and IP address(es). It should have been configured to not do that, or the requirement should have been recognized and worked around in the testing phase before the cluster went into production state - the very reason for clustering is that the other node might not be there someday.

 

If the dependency was there all the time, this would have been, by definition, a failure in packaging the application for the Serviceguard cluster. If the dependency was created later, it might be some change that was applied to the main server only, without keeping the standby server in an identical configuration.

 

Was this application ever failed over successfully?

 

You should look at the package log and any application logs (if there are any) to find error messages or some other clues about what causes the application to fail. "Does not work correctly" is not an useful problem description.

MK