MC / ServiceGuard I

Fast Lane- Austria
Vienna, Australia

Course Format: Classroom | E-learning | Virtual Class | Online | On-site | Blended | Self-paced

Course Description:

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HP-UX system administrators using MC/ServiceGuard


Voraussetzungen

HP-UX System and Network Administration I (H3064S)
HP-UX System and Network Administration II (H3065S)
Hands On with Logical Volume Manager, MirrorDisk/UX, and JFS (H6285S)
Experience with POSIX shell programming


Kursziele

This course teaches you how to effectively use MC/ServiceGuard to ensure the high availability of your systems. You will also learn how to configure and manage a MC/ServiceGuard cluster. This 5-day course is 50 percent lecture and 50 percent lab.
After completing this course the student should be able to:
Effectively use MC/ServiceGuard to protect your mission critical applications from a wide variety of hardware and software failures.
Configure up to 16-nodes (systems) in an enterprise cluster that delivers highly available application services to your LAN-attached clients.
Learn how to automate the detection of failures and restoration of application service, thus minimizing or eliminating your application downtime.
Reduce your planned downtime by using MC/ServiceGuard\’s rolling upgrade facility to change your cluster configuration while the cluster is running.


Kursinhalt

Introduction to High Availability
High availability concepts and terminology
Causes of system failure
High availability solutions

Introduction to MC/ServiceGuard
MC/ServiceGuard features and benefits
How MC/ServiceGuard works
Components of an MC/ServiceGuard package
Minimizing planned downtime

High Availability Planning
Ways to reduce risks and enhance high availability
Disk technologies for a high availability environment
Network configurations for a high availability environment
Configuration roadmap

LVM for MC/ServiceGuard
Configure a shared volume group for an MC/ServiceGuard environment
Export and import volume groups without having to specify disk devices
Activate a shared volume group in an exclusive read/write access mode.
Logical Volume Manager (LVM) issues for using MC/ServiceGuard

Cluster Concepts and Configuration
Components of an MC/ServiceGuard cluster
Cluster formation requirements
Procedure for defining, configuring and starting a cluster
Monitoring the cluster

Additional Cluster Features
MC/ServiceGuard volume groups
LVM enhancements for MC/ServiceGuard that improve integrity of stored data
Cluster formation and reformations, allowing flexible cluster management
Local LAN card failover, providing redundancy protection for local LAN cards

Packages and Services
What is a package?
View and modify package status
Configure a basic package to run in an MC/ServiceGuard environment
Package management and other cluster management commands

Application Monitoring Scripts
Package control script
Rules for service processes
Application monitoring script

Packages Policies
Packaging and failover policies
Rotating standby
Failback policies and automatic failback
Service versus node failure

Best Practices
Monitor events and activities within a cluster
Resolve cluster and package configuration issues
Test cluster operations
Troubleshoot cluster problems with contributed commands

Cluster and Package Online Reconfiguration
MC/ServiceGuard online reconfiguration
Add or remove a node while the cluster is running
Add or remove a package while the cluster is running
Modify a package while the cluster is running (package may, or may not, be running)

ServiceGuard Manager
HP cluster monitoring tools, including ServiceGuard Manager
ServiceGuard Manager and its components
Navigating the ServiceGuard Manager\’s Graphical User Interface

Highly Available NFS
MC/ServiceGuard NFS toolkit
NFS control script
Highly available NFS package
LVM maintenance to the highly available NFS package

High Availability Networking
Network redundancy
Multi-network environment
Redundant LAN cards, hubs, routers and client networks

EMS Resources and MC/ServiceGuard Packages
Review of client/server management architecture
Management Information Base (MIB) structure
Event Monitoring Service (EMS) and use of resls command to list EMS resources
Set up an MC/ServiceGuard package to use EMS resources

The Highly Available Oracle Database
Database toolkits and their contents
Oracle control script modification
Oracle monitor script
Configuring Oracle database to run in an MC/ServiceGuard environment

Rolling Upgrade Issues
Using rolling upgrades to minimize planned downtime
Rules/limitations for rolling upgrades
Implementing rolling upgrades, with various examples
When a rolling upgrade is not possible

Troubleshooting Scenarios and Final Review
Nine different MC/ServiceGuard configuration problems and how to resolve them
Final review questions that test your knowledge of MC/ServiceGuard
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Phone:+43 (0)1 7079538-0

School Address:

Brauhausstrasse 1
A-2320 Schwechat-Vienna

Tel. +43 (0)1 7079538-0
Fax +43 (0) 1 7079538-20


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