Planning the Installation and Configuration

Use this section in conjunction with the worksheets in the Sun Cluster 3.0 Release Notes as a checklist before installation and configuration.

Consider the following prior to starting your installation:

• Where will the server root reside?

  You can store files and data that do not change on the local file system of each cluster node. However, place dynamic data on the cluster file system so they can be viewed or updated from any cluster node.

• If you plan on using multiple NDS instances on a node, you must set the listenhost directive in slapd.conf with the appropriate network resource as the IP address (a logical host name). This setting is necessary because the default NDS behavior is for the instance to bind to all IP addresses on the node.

  For example, to set up a particular instance to use the logical host name nds-1, put the following into its slapd.conf file: listenhost nds-1. That way, the instance binds to the logical host name nds-1 only rather than to all the IP addresses on the node.