About MC/ServiceGuard
MC/ServiceGuard is a High Availability (HA) application. It is used in conjunction with other HA techniques to produce a loosely coupled cluster. An application running on a primary system is run on a backup system should a failure or other switch over condition exist on the primary system. MC/ServiceGuard can detect failures of a CPU, LAN, application, and other components.
All of the systems as well as all of the application packages have IP addresses. When a failure occurs the backup system runs the high availability package and the IP address of the package moves with the package to the backup system. If only a LAN card fails in a primary system ServiceGuard will fail over to a standby LAN card rather than the backup ...
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