Sun Cluster Software Installation Guide for Solaris OS

Example—Installing Sun Cluster Software on a Single-Node Cluster

The following example shows how to use the scinstall and scstat commands to install and verify a single-node cluster. The example includes installation of all patches. See the scinstall(1M) and scstat(1M) man pages for details.


# scinstall -iFo -M patchdir=/var/cluster/patches/

Checking device to use for global devices file system ... done
** Installing SunCluster 3.1 framework **
...
Installing patches ... done

Initializing cluster name to "phys-schost-1" ... done
Initializing authentication options ... done

Setting the node ID for "phys-schost-1" ... done (id=1)

Checking for global devices global file system ... done
Updating vfstab ... done

Verifying that "cluster" is set for "hosts" in nsswitch.conf ... done
Adding the "cluster" switch to "hosts" in nsswitch.conf ... done

Verifying that "cluster" is set for "netmasks" in nsswitch.conf ... done
Adding the "cluster" switch to "netmasks" in nsswitch.conf ... done

Verifying that power management is NOT configured ... done

Ensure that the EEPROM parameter "local-mac-address?" is set to "true" ... done

Ensure network routing is disabled ... done

Please reboot this machine.

# reboot
# scstat -n
-- Cluster Nodes --

                    Node name           Status
                    ---------           ------
  Cluster node:     phys-schost-1       Online
# scconf -pv | grep "install mode"
Cluster install mode:                   disabled