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Sun Cluster Geographic Edition Installation Guide

Chapter 2 Installing the Sun Cluster Geographic Edition Software

This chapter describes how to install the Sun Cluster Geographic Edition software on a pair of clusters. This chapter also provides a procedure to uninstall the Sun Cluster Geographic Edition software.

This chapter contains the following sections:

Installation Overview

You can install the Sun Cluster Geographic Edition software to a running cluster without disruption. Because the Sun Cluster Geographic Edition software installation process does not require you to restart the Sun Cluster software, the cluster remains in production with services running.

The Sun Cluster Geographic Edition installer offers two interactive installation modes, graphical user interface (GUI) and text-based interface. The graphical mode provides a wizard that guides you, step by step, through the tasks that you need to perform to install the Sun Cluster Geographic Edition components. The text-based mode provides the same functions that the GUI provides. However, this mode prompts you for responses on a line-by-line basis, rather than by means of a wizard.

Note –

Ensure that you have installed all the required patches for your cluster configuration on each node of every cluster before you start installing the software.

See Patches and Required Firmware Levels in Sun Cluster Geographic Edition 3.1 8/05 Release Notes for the location of patches and installation instructions.

The Sun Cluster Geographic Edition software must be installed on all nodes of a cluster.

Installing Patches

Ensure that you have installed all the required patches for your cluster configuration on each node of every cluster.

See Patches and Required Firmware Levels in Sun Cluster Geographic Edition 3.1 8/05 Release Notes for a list of required patches.

ProcedureHow to Install Patches By Using the patchadd Command

Perform this procedure from one node of the cluster to configure Sun Cluster Geographic Edition software on all nodes of the cluster.

Patch the secondary cluster before you patch the primary cluster to ensure that the patches work properly.

Before You Begin

Perform the following tasks:

Steps

  1. (Optional) To use the patchadd(1M) command to install patches, download patches to a patch directory.

  2. Use a directory named either /var/cluster/patches/ or /var/patches/ to contain the patches to install.

    You can include a patch-list file in the patch directory. The default patch-list file name is patchlist. For information about creating a patch-list file, refer to the patchadd(1M) man page.

  3. Become superuser on the cluster node from which you intend to apply the patch.

  4. Install any necessary patches to support Sun Cluster Geographic Edition software by using the patchadd command.

Installing the Software

You must install the Sun Cluster Geographic Edition software CD on every node of each cluster in your geographically separated cluster by using the installer utility.

ProcedureHow to Install the Sun Cluster Geographic Edition Software by Using the Graphical User Interface

Before You Begin

Before you begin to install software, make the following preparations:

Steps

  1. To use the installer program with a GUI, ensure that the display environment of the cluster node to install is set to display the GUI.


    % xhost +
% setenv DISPLAY nodename:0.0

  2. Become superuser on the cluster where you intend to install the Sun Cluster Geographic Edition software.

    Note –

    The Sun Cluster Geographic Edition software must be installed on all nodes of a cluster. 


    % su

  3. Insert the Sun Cluster Geographic Edition CD-ROM in the CD-ROM drive.

  4. Change to the root directory of the CD-ROM, where the installer utility resides.


    # cd cd-root/Solaris_sparc/Product/sun_cluster_geo

  5. Start the installer utility. 


    # ./installer

  6. Follow the instructions on the screen to install Sun Cluster Geographic Edition framework software on the cluster.

    The installer starts and displays the Welcome page.

    After the installation is finished, you can view any available installation log.

    To exit the installer at any time, click Cancel.

  7. Choose Typical or Custom installation.

    The Typical installation installs the Sun Cluster Geographic Edition data replication as well as the core components of the Sun Cluster Geographic Edition software.

    The Custom installation installs the core components of the Sun Cluster Geographic Edition software.

  8. Choose the locale for the software.

    The languages you choose will be installed for all the components you select. Each language causes additional packages to be installed, which adds to the disk space that is required for installation. English is always installed.

  9. If you chose the Custom installation, select the Sun Cluster Geographic Edition data replication you want to install.

  10. Confirm that you have selected all the software components you want to install, and click Install Now.

  11. Change to a directory that does not reside on the CD-ROM and eject the CD-ROM.


    # eject cdrom

ProcedureHow to Install the Sun Cluster Geographic Edition Software by Using the Text-Based Interface

Before You Begin

Before you begin to install software, make the following preparations:

Follow these guidelines to use the interactive installer utility in this procedure:

Steps

  1. To use the installer utility with a text-based interface, become superuser on the cluster where you intend to install the Sun Cluster Geographic Edition software.

    Note –

    The Sun Cluster Geographic Edition software must be installed on all nodes of a cluster. 


    % su

  2. Insert the Sun Cluster Geographic Edition CD-ROM in the CD-ROM drive.

  3. Change to the root directory of the CD-ROM, where the installer utility resides.


    # cd cd-root/Solaris_sparc/Product/sun_cluster_geo

  4. Start the installer utility by using the -nodisplay option to indicate that you want to use the text-based interface.


    # ./installer -nodisplay

  5. Follow the instructions on the installer pages to install the Sun Cluster Geographic Edition framework software on the cluster.

    After the installation is finished, you can view any available installation log.

    To exit the installer at any time, type the ! character.

  6. Choose Typical or Custom installation.

    The Typical installation installs the Sun Cluster Geographic Edition data replication as well as the core components of the Sun Cluster Geographic Edition software.

    The Custom installation installs the core components of the Sun Cluster Geographic Edition software.

  7. Choose the locale for the software.

    The languages you choose will be installed for all the components you select. Each language causes additional packages to be installed, which adds to the disk space that is required for installation. English is always installed.

  8. If you chose the Custom installation, select the Sun Cluster Geographic Edition data replication you want to install.

  9. Confirm that you have selected all the software components you want to install.

  10. Change to a directory that does not reside on the CD-ROM and eject the CD-ROM.


    # eject cdrom