| Title and Copyright Information |
| About This Manual |
| Audience |
| Organization |
| Related Documents |
| Reader's Comments |
| Conventions |
| 1 | Features |
| 1.1 | Changes from TruCluster Server Version 5.1 |
| 1.1.1 | Name of Cluster Interconnect Virtual Device Changed |
| 2 | Restrictions |
| 2.1 | Hardware Restriction |
| 2.1.1 | Restrictions on Memory Channel 2 on a GS80, GS160, or GS320 System |
| 2.2 | CFS Restrictions |
| 2.3 | AdvFS Restriction |
| 2.4 | Restrictions on Use of Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) |
| 2.5 | Restrictions on Multiple Network Interfaces |
| 3 | Issues and Known Problems |
| 3.1 | Installation |
| 3.1.1 | Update to Latest Firmware Before Installing Tru64 UNIX Version 5.1A |
| 3.1.2 | Do Not Use the Installation Branch of the Software Option of the SysMan Menu |
| 3.2 | Cluster Creation and Member Addition |
| 3.2.1 | Conflict in Use of the Default Physical Cluster Interconnect IP Name |
| 3.2.2 | Misleading LAN Interconnect Information Provided by clu_create |
| 3.2.3 | The clu_create Command Does Not Add the First Member's Fully Qualified Hostname to the /etc/cfgmgr.auth File |
| 3.2.4 | Re-adding a Member with clu_add_member -c Does Not Correctly Configure NetRAIN |
| 3.2.5 | Run /sbin/kreg After Building Kernel with No Kernel Layered Products |
| 3.3 | Booting and Shutdown |
| 3.3.1 | Do Not Reboot All Members Simultaneously |
| 3.3.2 | AlphaServer GS80/160/320 May Hang on Boot |
| 3.3.3 | A Member May Hang on Boot in a Cluster Using a KZPBA-CB SCSI Bus Adapter |
| 3.3.4 | Booting Member Hangs While Setting Time and Date with ntpdate |
| 3.3.5 | CNX Panic During Boot |
| 3.3.6 | Member Hangs During Clusterwide Shutdown |
| 3.3.7 | Booting a New Member Without a Cluster License Displays ATTENTION Message |
| 3.3.8 | Boot All Cluster Members Before Starting Applications That Use the Memory Channel API Library |
| 3.3.9 | "Cannot make specified change" Message During Boot |
| 3.3.10 | Booting a Member During Disaster Recovery |
| 3.4 | Cluster Configuration |
| 3.4.1 | Configurations That Support Ethernet Hubs |
| 3.4.2 | Set Ethernet Switch Address Aging to 15 Seconds |
| 3.4.3 | On LAN-based Clusters, Add Physical Network Addresses to ifaccess.conf |
| 3.4.4 | Whenever Changing Network Interfaces, Update ifaccess.conf |
| 3.4.5 | Configuring a Cluster Member as a DHCP Server |
| 3.4.6 | After Entering TruCluster Server License Information, Run lmf reset |
| 3.4.7 | Deleting a Member with an Inaccessible or Bad Member Boot Disk |
| 3.5 | File System |
| 3.5.1 | Do Not Create UFS File Systems on a Quorum Disk |
| 3.5.2 | CFS Relocation Failures Involving Applications That Wire Memory |
| 3.6 | LSM |
| 3.6.1 | LSM Commands Fail When Disk Left in Failing State |
| 3.6.2 | Problem Encapsulating Swap in Clusters with Long Host Names |
| 3.6.3 | Problem Encapsulating Swap When Remote Member Swap Areas Are Already Queued for Encapsulation |
| 3.6.4 | The voldisk list Command Does Not Display All Non-LSM Disks in a Cluster |
| 3.7 | CAA |
| 3.7.1 | Failure Threshold Value Should Not Be Greater Than 10 |
| 3.7.2 | Problems with caa_relocate When Multiple Interdependent Applications Are Specified |
| 3.7.3 | Action Scripts PATH Considerations |
| 3.7.4 | The caa_register -u Command Does Not Correctly Update a Nonapplication Resource's State |
| 3.7.5 | Changes to HOSTING_MEMBERS List Can Leave Applications Running on Disallowed Members |
| 3.7.6 | CAA Events Are Malformed When Viewed from the Event Manager (EVM) Viewer |
| 3.7.7 | CAA Lets You Update a Running Application's Required Resources |
| 3.7.8 | SysMan Station Shows CAA Application Resources in UNKNOWN State as Having an Error |
| 3.8 | Rolling Upgrade |
| 3.8.1 | Rolling Upgrade: Do Not Shut Down a Cluster Member To Single-User Mode |
| 3.8.2 | Stop prpasswdd Prior to Rolling Upgrade on Clusters Running Enhanced Security Environment |
| 3.8.3 | Updating Worldwide Language Support from CD-ROM During a Rolling Upgrade |
| 3.8.4 | Run Updates to dop Database Only on Upgraded Members |
| 3.8.5 | Recovering from a Failed Install Stage During a Rolling Upgrade from V5.1 to V5.1A |
| 3.9 | Miscellaneous Administration |
| 3.9.1 | RIS Boot Failures When Cluster is RIS Server |
| 3.9.2 | The cfsstat Command Can Return Incorrect Statistics |
| 3.9.3 | All Tape Writes at Same Density and Compression |
| 3.9.4 | Tape Opens Take Long Time to Fail When No Tape Is Present |
| 3.9.5 | Avoid Using Block Sizes Greater Than 512K Bytes for Tape Transfers |
| 3.9.6 | Disabling Internet Services on a Per-Member Basis |
| 3.9.7 | The hwmgr -show comp Command May Report an Inconsistency Error When Creating a Clusterwide Name for a SCSI Device |
| 3.9.8 | The hwmgr -scan scsi Command Does Not Work Clusterwide |
| 3.9.9 | Adding a Disk to a Running Cluster |
| 3.9.10 | Running Process Accounting on Large Clusters Can Exhaust Member Process Quotas |
| 3.10 | SysMan Menu |
| 3.10.1 | Nonroot Users with No Home Directory Cannot Run System Management Applications |
| 3.11 | SysMan Station |
| 3.11.1 | SysMan Station Does Not Display Applications with Long Resource Names |
| 3.11.2 | Unable to Expand Host Object in a Cluster |
| 3.11.3 | SysMan Station Might Display Cluster Status Incorrectly |
| 3.11.4 | SysMan Station Might Display New Hardware Objects Incorrectly |
| 3.11.5 | Properties Might Not Be Displayed for Selected Objects |
| 3.11.6 | Some SysMan Station Applications Display Wrong Target Member Name |
| 3.12 | Documentation |
| 3.12.1 | Recovering Cluster Root File System |
| 3.12.2 | Correct Size of Member Boot Disk a (Boot) Partition |
| 3.12.3 | Error in Example of Hexadecimal Format of IP Address |
| 3.12.4 | Media Changer Utility, mcutil, Works on Remote Members |
| 3.12.5 | Using LSM to Mirror the Cluster Root File System |
| 3.12.6 | Migrating from Automount to AutoFS |
| 3.12.6.1 | Migrating Without a Reboot |
| 3.12.6.2 | Migrating When Rebooting a Cluster Member |
| 3.12.6.3 | Migrating When Rebooting the Cluster |
| 3.12.7 | Clusterwide IPC--Supported Mechanisms |
| 3.12.8 | Software Product Description (SPD) Replaced by QuickSpec |
| Tables |
| 1-1 | TruCluster Server Version 5.1A Features |
| Index |