4.1 Install HACMP Install the following file sets from the HACMP 4.4 installation media on each node: cluster.base cluster.cspoc cluster.doc.en_US cluster.man.en_US cluster.taskguides cluster.vsm 4.2 Setup the AIX Environment for HACMP 1. Create the /dev/tty<#> devices on each node 2. Setup your SCSI adapters on each node 3. Create the /.rhosts file on each node This […]

3.1 Physically set up your system and install AIX The first step to prepare a system for HA application is to perform the physical setup. This includes all the physical cabling for power, networks, disk devices, etc. We will not go into detail on how to accomplish this as most of this procedure is routine.

2.1 Before You Begin HACMP for AIX is complex software and is the core component of a Highly Available application system. As such, the planning, installation, and configuration of an HA application system should be done by personnel with the appropriate HACMP training and should not be attempted by application administrators or operators with little

A shell account is a personal account that gives a user access to a Unix shell on another machine, usually through ssh (and historically telnet.) With a shell account one can log into a remote server and run commands on it. It is very useful when one wants to try out another operating system, to

If a USB device behaves erratically. Use the cfgadm command to reset the device, which logically removes and re-creates the device. 1. Become superuser. 2. Make sure that the device is not in use. 3. Reset the device. For example: # cfgadm -x usb_reset -y usb0/4.7 4. Verify that the device is connected. For example:

This document shows how you can set up a two node, high-availability HTTP cluster with heartbeat on linux. Both nodes use the Apache web server to serve the same content. Pre-Configuration Requirements: 1. Assign hostname host01 to primary node with IP address 192.168.0.1 to eth0. 2. Assign hostname host02 to secondry node with IP address

This procedure lets you verify the baud rate and other serial port settings used by the Sun Fire V490 server to communicate with attached serial port devices. You must be logged in to the Sun Fire V490 server, and the server must be running Solaris OS software. Procedure: 1. Open a terminal tool window. 2.

Ways of Accessing the ok Prompt Access Method What to Do Graceful halt From a console window (dtterm, for example), issue an appropriate command (for example, the shutdown,init, halt, or uadmin command) as described in Solaris system administration documentation. Stop-A (L1-A) or Break key sequence From a Sun keyboard, hold down the Stop and A

The following procedure assumes you are connecting to the serial port (ttya) of the Sun Fire V490 system using a tip connection from serial port B (ttyb) of another Sun server, and that the other Sun server has its own local graphics terminal. Procedure: 1. Decide whether you need to reset OpenBoot configuration variables on

1. The multipath-tools package is not installed as part of a default installation of the operating system. The recommended multipath-tools rpm package is available from the Novell website. The SLES 9 SP3 installation CD includes the multipath-tools package. 2. Verify that the required version of uDev has been installed for your environment. To query the