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MC/ServiceGuard
This course provides an in-depth study of MC/ServiceGuard to develop skills for system administrators to configure high availability clusters and increase the functionality of their ServiceGuard packages.

Topics include installing MC/ServiceGuard, package configuration, troubleshooting, using PRM to manage package performance in failover situations, using EMS to manage package dependencies.
 
Who Should Attend
HP-UX system administrators using MC/ServiceGuard.
 
Prerequisites
HP-UX System Administration, Networking for HP-UX System Administrators, and Logical Volume Manager and Veritas Volume Manager courses or equivalent training and experience.
 
Features of this Course
Content-rich course covering starting with the basics of high availability systems and advancing to how to manage MC/ServiceGuard clusters.
 
Benefits of Attending this Class

Upon completion of this course, students should be able to:

  • Install MC/ServiceGuard
  • Configure a package with VxVM storage
  • Write package-monitoring scripts
  • Integrate EMS
  • Troubleshoot common MC/ServiceGuard problems
 
Course Contents

Module 1 — High Availability Concepts

Module 2 — Configuration Planning

  • Disk space allocation
  • Daemons

Module 3 — Cluster Components and Configuration

  • Starting and monitoring a cluster
  • Halting a cluster
  • Cluster formation and reformations

Module 4 — MC/ServiceGuard Package Configuration

  • View and modify package status
  • Package control and application monitoring scripts

Module 5 — Failover and Failback Policies and Testing

Module 6 — Online Reconfiguration of MC/ServiceGuard

Module 7 — Using Event Monitoring Service (EMS)

Module 8 — VxVM for MC/ServiceGuard

Module 9 — Networking in an MC/ServiceGuard Environment

Module 10 — Process Resource Manager

 
 
 
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