PRIMECLUSTER Installation and Administration Guide 4.1 (for Solaris(TM) Operating System)

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Preface

This manual serves as your starting point for using PRIMECLUSTER. It explains the workflow of the series of operations from installation to operation management of the PRIMECLUSTER system. Since the PRIMECLUSTER system comprises multiple features, there are several other manuals besides this one for each feature. However, by reading this manual first, you will be able to perform the series of operations because this manual refers readers to other manuals that contain feature-specific information that is necessary for the operations.

This manual also provides a functional overview of products that are supported by the PRIMECLUSTER system and describes operation procedures.

This manual only covers the basic operation of PRIMECLUSTER. For operations using different hardware and software configurations, see "Related Documentation".

The table below shows the operation flow from PRIMECLUSTER installation to the start of operation management and indicates the reference location in this manual for each operation.

[Flow from PRIMECLUSTER system installation to operation management]

For detailed procedural explanations, refer to the reference manuals that are indicated in the target location of each part.

Target Readers

This manual is intended for all users who use PRIMECLUSTER 4.1 and perform cluster system installation and operation management. It is also intended for programmers who develop applications that operate on PRIMECLUSTER.

Configuration of This Documentation

This manual consists of six parts, appendixes, and a glossary. The contents of each part are described below.

Part 1 Planning

Audience: System administrators who build PRIMECLUSTER systems

Contents: This part describes the overall workflow from installation to operation of the PRIMECLUSTER system.

Part 2 Installation

Audience: System administrators who build PRIMECLUSTER systems

Contents: This part describes operations for software installation, cluster building, and application building.

Part 3 Operations

Audience: System administrators who manage system operations.

Contents: This part describes operation methods for operations such as monitoring the PRIMECLUSTER system and investigating failure causes.

Part 4 System Configuration Modifications

Audience: System administrators who build PRIMECLUSTER systems

Contents: This part describes necessary work items for additions, modifications, and deletions to the PRIMECLUSTER system configuration.

Part 5 Maintenance

Audience: System administrators who build PRIMECLUSTER systems

Contents: This part describes the necessary work items for maintaining the operation environment of the PRIMECLUSTER system.

Part 6 PRIMECLUSTER Products

Audience: Users who operate PRIMECLUSTER products on PRIMECLUSTER systems

Contents: This part describes the versions and levels of products that are supported by the PRIMECLUSTER system and provides a functional overview of those products.

Appendix A PRIMECLUSTER System Design WorksheetsAudience: Users who design PRIMECLUSTER systems

Contents: This appendix contains the PRIMECLUSTER System Design Worksheet.

Appendix B Manual Pages

Audience: All users who use PRIMECLUSTER systems

Contents: This appendix describes the online manual pages that are used by the individual features of the PRIMECLUSTER system.

Appendix C Troubleshooting

Audience: All users who use PRIMECLUSTER systems

Contents: This appendix describes corrective actions for problems that may occur in the PRIMECLUSTER system. It also explains how to collect data when requesting a problem investigation.

Appendix D Messages

Audience: All users who use PRIMECLUSTER systems

Contents: This appendix describes the contents and actions for messages output by the userApplication Configuration Wizard GUI and messages output by procedure resources in PRIMECLUSTER systems. For other messages, this manual indicates the reference locations in other manuals.

Appendix E Using SynfinityCluster Products in PRIMECLUSTER

Audience: All users who used the SynfinityCluster system

Contents: This appendix describes feature differences and terminology differences between SynfinityCluster and PRIMECLUSTER.

Appendix F Registering, Changing, and Deleting State Transition Procedure Resources for SynfinityCluster Compatibility

Audience: All users who use SynfinityCluster-compatible resources

Contents: This appendix describes procedures for registering, changing, and deleting procedure resources when the cluster applications use procedure resources.

Appendix G Registering SynfinityCluster-compatible Resources

Audience: All users who use SynfinityCluster-compatible resources

Contents: This appendix describes the procedure for registering SynfinityCluster-compatible resources.

Glossary

Audience: All users who use PRIMECLUSTER systems

Contents: This section explains terms used to describe the PRIMECLUSTER system.

Abbreviations

Audience: All users who use PRIMECLUSTER systems

Contents: This section explains abbreviations of the PRIMECLUSTER system.

Related Documentation

Refer to the following manuals as necessary when setting up the cluster:

• PRIMECLUSTER Concepts Guide
• PRIMECLUSTER Cluster Foundation (CF) Configuration and Administration Guide
• PRIMECLUSTER Reliant Monitor Services (RMS) with Wizard Tools Configuration and Administration Guide
• PRIMECLUSTER Reliant Monitor Services (RMS) Troubleshooting Guide
• PRIMECLUSTER Global Disk Services Configuration and Administration Guide
• PRIMECLUSTER Global File Services Configuration and Administration Guide
• PRIMECLUSTER Global Link Services Configuration and Administration Guide: Redundant Line Control Function
• PRIMECLUSTER Global Link Services Configuration and Administration Guide: Multipath Function
• PRIMECLUSTER Web-Based Admin View Operation Guide
• PRIMECLUSTER Scalable Internet Services (SIS) Configuration and Administration Guide
• RC2000 User's Guide

The PRIMECLUSTER documentations include the following documentation in addition to those listed above:

• PRIMECLUSTER Installation Guide

This printed installation guide is included with each PRIMECLUSTER product.

Manual Series

Manual Printing

If you want to print a manual, use the PDF file found on the CD-ROM for the PRIMECLUSTER product. The correspondences between the PDF file names and manuals are described in the PRIMECLUSTER Installation Guide that comes with the product.

You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to read and print the PDF file. Use Adobe Acrobat Reader Version 4.0 or higher.

Online Manuals

To allow users to view the online manuals, use the Cluster management server to register each user name to one of the user groups (wvroot, clroot, cladmin, or clmon).

For information on user group registration procedures and user group definitions, see "Assigning Users to Manage the Cluster."

Conventions

Notation

Prompts

Command line examples that require system administrator (or root) rights to execute are preceded by the system administrator prompt, the hash sign (#). Entries that do not require system administrator rights are preceded by a dollar sign ($).

Manual page section numbers

References to the UNIX operating system commands are followed by their manual page section numbers in parentheses - for example, cp(1)

The keyboard

Keystrokes that represent nonprintable characters are displayed as key icons such as [Enter] or [F1]. For example, [Enter] means press the key labeled Enter; [Ctrl-b] means hold down the key labeled Ctrl or Control and then press the [B] key.

Typefaces

The following typefaces highlight specific elements in this manual.

Example 1

Several entries from an /etc/passwd file are shown below:

root:x:0:1:0000-Admin(0000):/:

sysadm:x:0:0:System Admin.:/usr/admin:/usr/sbin/sysadm

setup:x:0:0:System Setup:/usr/admin:/usr/sbin/setup

daemon:x:1:1:0000-Admin(0000):/:

Example 2

To use the cat(1) command to display the contents of a file, enter the following command line:

$ cat file

Notation symbols

Material of particular interest is preceded by the following symbols in this manual:

• Contains important information about the subject at hand.
• Describes an item to be noted.
• Describes operation using an example.
• Describes reference information.
• Provides the names of manuals to be referenced.
• Summarizes the contents described in the parts and chapters.

Abbreviations

• Microsoft(R) Windows(R) 98 operating system and Microsoft(R) Windows(R) 98 Second Edition operating system are abbreviated as Windows(R) 98.
• Microsoft(R) Windows NT(R) Server operating system Version 4.0, and Microsoft(R) Windows NT(R) Server Workstation System Version 4.0 are abbreviated as Windows NT(R).
• Microsoft(R) Windows(R) 2000 operating system is abbreviated as Windows(R) 2000.
• Microsoft(R) Windows(R) Millennium Edition is abbreviated as Windows(R) Me.
• Microsoft(R) Windows(R) XP operating system is abbreviated as Windows(R) XP.
• Windows(R) 98, Windows NT(R), Windows(R) 2000, Windows(R) Me, and Windows(R) XP are generically referred to as Microsoft(R) Windows.
• Solaris(TM) operating system is abbreviated as Solaris.
• If "Solaris X" is indicated in the reference manual name of the Solaris manual, replace "Solaris X" with "Solaris 8 operating system (Solaris 8)" or the "Solaris 9 operating system (Solaris 9)" or the "Solaris 10 operating system (Solaris 10)".

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ORACLE and Oracle Applications are trademarks or registered trademarks of Oracle Corporation.

CORBA, OMG, and ORB are registered trademarks of Object Management Group (OMG).

NetWorker is a registered trademark of Legato Systems, Inc.

Symfoware is a registered trademark of Fujitsu Limited.

PRIMECLUSTER is a trademark of Fujitsu Limited.

Other product names are product names, trademarks, or registered trademarks of these companies.

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