Veritas Volume Manager 4.1 Administrator's Guide (HP-UX 11i v3, February 2007)

Cluster Initialization and Configuration
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The startnode keyword to vxclustadm starts cluster functionality on a cluster node by
passing cluster configuration information to the VxVM kernel. In response to this
command, the kernel and the VxVM configuration daemon, vxconfigd, perform
initialization.
The stopnode keyword stops cluster functionality on a node. It waits for all outstanding
I/O to complete and for all applications to close shared volumes.
The abortnode keyword terminates cluster activity on a node. It does not wait for
outstanding I/O to complete nor for applications to close shared volumes.
The reinit keyword allows nodes to be added to or removed from a cluster without
stopping the cluster. Before running this command, the cluster configuration
configuration file must have been updated with information about the supported nodes in
the cluster.
The nidmap keyword prints a table showing the mapping between node IDs in VxVM’s
cluster-support subsystem and node IDs in the cluster monitor. It also prints the state of
the node in the cluster.
The nodestate keyword reports the state of a cluster node and also the reason for the
last abort of the node as shown in this example:
# /etc/vx/bin/vxclustadm nodestate
state: out of cluster
reason: user initiated stop
The various reasons that may be given are shown in the following table:
Reason Description
cannot find disk on slave node Missing disk or bad disk on the slave node.
cannot obtain configuration data The node cannot read the configuration data due to
an error such as disk failure.
cluster device open failed Open of a cluster device failed.
clustering license mismatch with
master node
Clustering license does not match that on the master
node.
clustering license not available Clustering license cannot be found.
connection refused by master Join of a node refused by the master node.
disk in use by another cluster A disk belongs to a cluster other than the one that a
node is joining.