SERVICEGUARD

[Ammar_4]

Hi i have passed the exam of the System Administration now i m preparing serviceguard. i want to ask will i get valuable info on this forum or is there any other forum?
Thanks in advance

[Adisuria Wangsadinata_1]

Hi Ammar,

Since this forum is the good one to find out the information on HP products (especially HP-UX and it's buddies), I'm sure you will get a valuable info on this forum.

Off-course, you need to find out other information from outside :
- the books, 1 of the good book :
http://www.hp.com/hpbooks/prentice/ptr_0131463969.html
- HP docs (especially on Service Guard)
http://www.docs.hp.com/en/ha.html#Serviceguard
- Google

Hope this information can help you.

Cheers,
AW

[Kent Ostby]

Ammar --

Instead of the system admininstration forum, you should select the serviceguard forum.

That will get you at least some answers to some of the questions that come up.

[Mark Nieuwboer]

Ammar,
Of course you can learn some issuee with serviceguard from this forum. It's wish to get hands-on experince. If you have a cluster use it to try to make packages and so.
If you only learn it from the books you may become surprised with the exam.

grtz. Mark

[Frank de Vries]

This Forum is full with Mc/Serviceguard,
so that is handy.
My advise to newcomers though i s
to test as much as ou can hands-on.

Get two nodes and an external diskcluster,
a small hub , and once you have understood the concept and setup, then test for
various failover scenarios.

Then simulate a production environment
and try to regenerate the cluster,
with a new lock-disk , extent lvm
etc.. without crashing the cluster !!

All good fun :)

If you have any questions we are always standby to answers them.

[Ammar_4]

Hi
Thanks all of you . you really send valuable info. but i have still some questions. first is that i have no setup and you know it is expensive to create setup but i will try my best please tell me what will be approximate. cost ? and second thing is that one of member asked me to join specifically MC/SERVICEGUARD FORUM so please give me link because i didn't find it Again thanks

[Geoff Wild · Accepted solution]

Link to SG forum:

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/categoryhome.do?categoryId=210

Rgds...Geoff

[Geoff Wild]

As far as setting up your own cluster - cheapest would be to run SG on linux.

You would need 2 servers, Red Hat, and SG..

I believe cost for SG on linux is same as HP-UX - approc $2000 US.

Rgds...Geoff