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Sun Cluster Geographic Edition Installation Guide

ProcedureHow to Upgrade Sun Cluster Geographic Edition Software

Perform this procedure on all nodes of the cluster. You can perform this procedure on more than one node at the same time.

Caution – Caution –

If the cluster is in a partnership, both partners must be upgraded to the Sun Cluster Geographic Edition 3.1 2006Q4 software before the Sun Cluster Geographic Edition 3.1 2006Q4 software can start.

  1. To use the uninstaller utility with a GUI, ensure that the display environment of the cluster node to uninstall is set to display the GUI.


    % xhost +
% setenv DISPLAY nodename:0.0

  2. Become root on the node or cluster where you intend to uninstall the Sun Cluster Geographic Edition software.


    % su

  3. Uninstall the Sun Cluster Geographic Edition 3.1 8/05 software.

    For more information about how to leave applications running while shutting down the Sun Cluster Geographic Edition software, see Disabling the Sun Cluster Geographic Edition Software in Sun Cluster Geographic Edition System Administration Guide.

  4. Ensure that all the nodes are online and part of the cluster.

    To view the current status of the cluster, run the following command from any node:


    % scstat

    See the scstat(1M) man page for more information.

    Search the /var/adm/messages log on the same node for unresolved error messages or warning messages.

  5. Upgrade to common agent container 1.1.

    See Upgrading Common Agent Container in Sun Java Enterprise System 2006Q3 Upgrade Guide for more information.

  6. Install the Sun Cluster Geographic Edition software as described in Chapter 2, Installing the Sun Cluster Geographic Edition Software.

  7. Install all the required patches as described in Installing Patches.

  8. Perform the preceding steps on all clusters that have a partnership with this cluster.

  9. After you have installed Sun Cluster Geographic Edition software on all the nodes of a cluster, enable the Sun Cluster Geographic Edition software.


    # geoadm start

  10. Remove the ICRM plug-in from all the heartbeats on both partner clusters. 


    phys-paris-1 # geohb remove-plugin icrm_plugin hb_paris~new-york
phys-paris-1 # geohb remove-plugin icrm_plugin hb_new-york~paris
phys-newyork-1 # geohb remove-plugin icrm_plugin hb_paris~new-york
phys-newyork-1 # geohb remove-plugin icrm_plugin hb_new-york~paris

  11. Add all application resource groups you removed while you were preparing the cluster for an upgrade back to the protection group. 


    # geopg add-resource-group resourcegroup protectiongroupname

    See the geopg(1M) man page for more information.

  12. Start all the protection groups that you have added. 


    # geopg start  protectiongroupname -e local | global [-n]

    See the geopg(1M) man page for more information.

Next Steps

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