| 1. Set up and test a package-less cluster. |
| 2. Understand how a Serviceguard package works. |
| 3. Establish whether you can utilize a Serviceguard Toolkit. |
| 4. Understand the workings of any in-house applications. |
| 5. Create package monitoring scripts, if necessary. |
| 6. Distribute the application monitoring scripts to all relevant nodes in the cluster. |
| 7. Create and update an ASCII package configuration file ( cmmakepkg “p ). |
| 8. Create and update an ASCII package control script ( cmmakepkg “s ). |
| 9. Distribute manually to all relevant nodes, the ASCII package control script. |
| 10. Check the ASCII package control file ( cmcheckconf ). |
| 11. Distribute the updated binary cluster configuration file ( cmapplyconf ). |
| 12. Ensure that any data files and programs that are to be shared are loaded onto shared disk drives . |
| 13. Start the package ( cmrunpkg or cmmodpkg ). |
| 14. Ensure that package switching is enabled. |
| 15. Test package failover functionality. |