Managing Systems and Workgroups: A Guide for HP-UX System Administrators

Setting Up and Administering an HP-UX NFS Diskless Cluster
Administering Your NFS Diskless Cluster
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c. If private policies are used, a user account must be added,
modified, or removed from each member of the cluster where
the user account exists.
d. If the cluster server is an NTP client, changing the date and
time must be done on the NTP server.
Table 10-4 Tasks Required by Specific Events
Event
What Task To
Perform
Where to
Perform the
Task
Booting entire cluster Boot server, then
clients
Server, clients
Server maintenance
needed
Shut down the cluster,
then power down the
server
Clients first,
server last
Maintenance is needed
on a client that has a
cluster-wide file
system.
Get users out of the file
system, then shut down
the client
Client
Maintenance is needed
on a client that does not
have cluster-wide file
system.
Shut down the client Client
Need to send message
to all cluster users
Use cwall (see wall
(1M))
Any member of
the cluster
Files accidentally
deleted
Recover files from a
backup
Server for
cluster backup;
client for backup
of local disk
File system corrupted Use fsck or archive
backup
System where
the file system is
local