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now, as explained in Section A.5 (page 164). Appendix A (page 149) includes additional information
regarding setting up and booting HP Integrity servers.
3.5 Joining an OpenVMS Cluster
If you answered YES to the question about joining an OpenVMS Cluster, the system now asks
a series of questions about your configuration (such as CI, DSSI, SCSI, local area, or mixed
interconnect). If you answered NO to this question, the system immediately runs AUTOGEN,
as described in Section 3.6 (page 75). If you answered NO, you can still set up or join an OpenVMS
Cluster after the installation is completed by manually running the cluster configuration utility.
You can do this by entering the following command:
$ @SYS$MANAGER:CLUSTER_CONFIG_LAN
For more information about cluster configuration, see the HP OpenVMS Cluster Systems manual
or the Guidelines for OpenVMS Cluster Configurations manual.
Table 3-2 lists the OpenVMS Cluster prompts and suggested responses. These prompts appear
if you answered YES to the question about joining an OpenVMS Cluster or if you manually run
SYS$MANAGER:CLUSTER_CONFIG_LAN.COM. Note that, depending on your responses and
the particular cluster configuration, some prompts are not displayed.
Table 3-2 Prompts for OpenVMS Cluster Configurations
How to RespondQuestion
Enter Y.Will this node be a cluster
member (Y/N)?
Enter the DECnet node name (for example, MYNODE). The DECnet node name
can be from one to six alphanumeric characters in length and cannot include
dollar signs ($) or underscores (_). This is the name you specified in step 12 of
the installation procedure.
What is the node's DECnet node
name?
Enter the DECnet node address; for example, 2.2. This is the address you specified
in step 13 of the installation procedure.
What is the node's DECnet node
address?
Enter a number in the range of 1 to 4095 or 61440 to 65535.Enter this cluster's group
number:
1
Enter the cluster password. The password must be from 1 to 31 alphanumeric
characters in length and can include dollar signs ($) and underscores (_).
Enter this cluster's password:
1
Reenter the password.Reenter this cluster's password
for verification:
Enter Y if you want local disks to be served to the cluster (mandatory for local
area and mixed-interconnect configurations). See the HP OpenVMS Cluster Systems
manual for information about served cluster disks.
Will MYNODE be a disk server
(Y/N)?
In an OpenVMS Cluster environment, the allocation class value cannot be zero
if volume shadowing will be used on this system. The ALLOCLASS value must
be a number from 1 to 255.
HP recommends that you thoroughly review the chapter on cluster storage devices
in the HP OpenVMS Cluster Systems manual. This manual also includes the rules
for specifying allocation class values.
Enter a value for MYNODE’s
ALLOCLASS parameter.
For SCSI, local area, and mixed-interconnect configurations, enter Y or N,
depending on your configuration. If you enter Y, the system asks for the name
of the quorum disk. Enter the device name of the quorum disk. For information
about quorum disks, see the HP OpenVMS Cluster Systems manual.
Does this cluster contain a
quorum disk (Y/N)?
1 Cluster group number and password are required by any cluster nodes that use the local area network. In a cluster
that uses mixed interconnects, if any of the interconnects require the cluster number and password, then you must
set the cluster number and password for all nodes.
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