How to force package halt?

[Thomas Schler_1]

Hi,

we're running MC / Service Guard A.11.14 on HP-UX 11.00.

Assume MC/SG triggers a package halt due to some HW or SW problems. One of the stop scripts (or more?) does not come to its end because in some circumstances it hangs in an endless loop.

Is there any way to force a package halt by breaking a running stop script and not executing further stop scripts?

I'm thinking of an alternate way than checking and modifying each stop script. Maybe, there is a time-out variable to configure that allows a package halt to take not longer than say 30 minutes.

[John Palmer · Accepted solution]

Hi,

See HALT_SCRIPT_TIMEOUT and SERVICE_HALT_TIMEOUT defined in your package control script.

Regards,
John

[melvyn burnard]

you need to look at configuring:
HALT_SCRIPT_TIMEOUT
in your package files.
By default there is NO timeout. The interval is set in seconds, and there is a maximium of approx 4294 seconds.
For more detail, you could look at htis in eht Managing MC/ServiceGuard manual at:
http://docs.hp.com/hpux/ha
and check hte section/:
How Package Control Scripts Work

[fg_1]

Thomas

Use the HALT_SCRIPT_TIMEOUT feature in your cluster. Typically in the clusters that i have set up this value is set for 300 Seconds (5 minutes), if your stop script has not finished in that amt of time then this value will kick in.

Hope this helps

Gl.

[Ashwani Kashyap]

YEs use HALT_SCRIPT_TIMEOUT and SERVICE_HALT_TIMEOUT varibales in the package configuration file for the same .

One thing to be aware of is that the HALT_SCRIPT_TIMEOUT should be greater than all SERVICE_HALT_TIMEOUT values combined .