Read Before Installing Support Plus HP-UX 11iv1, June 2003

'-k' option is used. In the specific case where the '-k'

option is used and all of the volume groups specified in the

cluster ascii file are not imported on all nodes in the

cluster, the commands will fail.

- This behavior is also exhibited with superseding patch

PHSS_27725.

- Please note that this behavior will not occur if all volume

groups specified in the cluster ascii file are available

on all nodes in the cluster. The behavior will also not

occur if the '-k' option is not used.

- When this behavior occurs, commands such as:

# cmcheckconf -k -C <cluster_ascii_file>

# cmapplyconf -k -C <cluster_ascii_file>

will generate internal errors similar to the following:

Internal error: Number of volume groups sent (20) doesn't

match (1) reply from node hd3grd1

Error: Unable to determine lvm configuration: failed to

receive lvm query reply from node hd3grd1

and then may generate other LVM errors such as:

Error: Volume Group /dev/vgxprdpin is not found on any

nodes in the cluster.

cmcheckconf : Unable to verify cluster file: bad.ascii

- To avoid this behavior, HP recommends not using the '-k'

option for cmcheckconf(1M) and cmapplyconf(1M) if all

volume groups specified in the cluster ascii file are not

imported on all cluster nodes. Please note that the

omission of the '-k' option will increase the execution time