From: Raj Atwal (atwalrs@YAHOO.COM)
Date: Thu Jan 29 2004 - 15:13:10 EST
Thanks Simon. I opened a call with IBM and they are pretty much confirming what you are telling me. I am awaiting 100% confimation and then I will attempt this tomorrow.
cheers
Raj Atwal
"Green, Simon" <Simon.Green@EU.ALTRIA.COM> wrote:
You can delete your Frame 2 safely provided it does not have a Switch in it. I did the same last year - actually frame 3, but with several additional SP-Attached servers "above" it. I, too, was concerned but did a lot of checking before hand and got confirmation from one of the IBM techies on another list. If you have any further concerns, email me direct and I'll see if I can dig out my notes, tomorrow.
Switch frames are different, and Frame 1 is different. I eventually had to delete my Frame 1 and it was a bit of a pain, although not technically difficult.
The simplest way is just spdelfram: that'll clear the node out, in theory. Worth checking that it gets everything. Sometimes it doesn't quite work, but if you run it again it should clear out anything that's left. Check it with splstdata -f and splstdata -n.
Obviously, back everything up carefully beforehand, take an SDRArchive immediately before and I'd recommend making an extra note of all of the serial ports on your CWS as well.
-- Simon Green Altria ITSC Europe Ltd AIX-L Archive at https://new-lists.princeton.edu/listserv/aix-l.html New to AIX? http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/redbooks.nsf/portals/UNIX N.B. Unsolicited email from vendors will not be appreciated. Please post all follow-ups to the list. -----Original Message----- From: Raj Atwal [mailto:atwalrs@YAHOO.COM] Sent: 29 January 2004 16:16 To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU Subject: Deleting SP node/Frame out of order I am responsible for decommissioning an SP node and SP frame in my complex. I have read the instructions in the admin guide and I am concerned about one thing that I hope this group can assist me with. I have two physical frames, frame 1 is fully populated with 8 silver wide nodes and an SP switch, frame 2 houses a single wide node, and frame 3 is actually an SP attached 6M1. I need to delete the single node in frame 2 and then the frame itself, so IBM can physically take it back as part of an end of lease contract. My concern is that the admin guide says that you should delete your frames from the end first, or you will have to reconfigure the SDR. However I couldn't find enough information on how or what to reconfigrue in the SDR. I am concerned that if I delete my node and frame 2, that nothing happens to my SP attached server and the mission critical app it is running? I would appreciate any feedback and thoughts. ______________________________ Raj Atwal Senior Systems Consultant Braegen Group Toronto, ON, Canada (416) 366 6363 ______________________________ --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it!
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