Installing Solaris 9 over old cluster node

From: Steve Howie (showie@uoguelph.ca)
Date: Thu Jan 08 2004 - 14:36:25 EST


Howdy,

Can anyone see any gotchas with the following scenario:

1. Two node (machine A and machine B) cluster with the cluster
resource offile, but both booted in cluster mode. Machine B now operates
an application independent of the clustering framework.

2. Shut cluster down in orderly fashion, reboot both nodes in
non-cluster mode.

3. Install Solaris 9 over the top of machine A. Reboot node A

4. Start using node A as if cluster never existed. We are going to move
a fibre connection to an HP XP512 SAN from machine B to a similar JNI
HBA card on machine A. And yes, we have a backup of the filesystem on
the XP512 :)

In Step 3, a previous respondent recommended issuing the 'set-defaults'
command to get rid of any NVRAM scripts, and reset the -x flag for the
boot command. Question: If I am connected to the server using RSC, will
this set the default input-device environment variable back the serial
port and pull the rug out from under me, or would it allow me to reissue
the 'setenv input-device rsc' and 'set output-device' command again??

Hopefully this is my last clustering question :)

Thanks again

Scotty
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