Serviceguard Overview

Serviceguard is a set of software components designed to ensure that workloads are highly available. Because Serviceguard is software based, an initial assumption could be that installation and configuration of the Serviceguard software results in a highly available platform for hosting applications. However, that is not the case. In order to achieve a highly available foundation for running workloads, you must carefully plan and implement both the hardware and the software.

Serviceguard Software Components

Figure 16-1 shows the primary Serviceguard components. Immediately below the workload are the four major components in the Serviceguard application, the package manager, cluster manager, network manager, and object manager. ...

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