Sun Cluster Geographic Edition Installation Guide contains guidelines for planning a SunTM Cluster Geographic Edition configuration, and provides procedures for installing, configuring, upgrading, and uninstalling the Sun Cluster Geographic Edition software.
This document is intended for experienced system administrators with extensive knowledge of Sun software and hardware. You should have already determined your system requirements and purchased the appropriate equipment and software before reading this document.
The instructions in this book assume knowledge of the SolarisTM Operating System (Solaris OS) and Sun Cluster software, expertise with the volume manager software that is used within Sun Cluster software, and the data replication software that is used with the Sun Cluster Geographic Edition software.
This release of Sun Cluster Geographic Edition software supports the following releases of Sun's availability suite software:
Sun StorEdgeTM Availability Suite 3.2.1 software
Sun StorageTekTM Availability Suite 4 software
In this manual, references to Sun StorageTek Availability Suite software also apply to Sun StorEdge Availability Suite software unless specifically stated otherwise.
This document contains information about commands that are used to install, configure, or administer a Sun Cluster Geographic Edition configuration. This document might not contain complete information on basic UNIX® commands and procedures such as shutting down the system, booting the system, and configuring devices.
See one or more of the following sources for this information:
Online documentation for the Solaris software system
Other software documentation that you received with your system
Solaris OS man pages
The Sun web site provides information about the following additional resources:
The following table describes the typographic conventions that are used in this book.
Table P–1 Typographic Conventions
Typeface |
Meaning |
Example |
---|---|---|
AaBbCc123 |
The names of commands, files, and directories, and onscreen computer output |
Edit your .login file. Use ls -a to list all files. machine_name% you have mail. |
AaBbCc123 |
What you type, contrasted with onscreen computer output |
machine_name% su Password: |
aabbcc123 |
Placeholder: replace with a real name or value |
The command to remove a file is rm filename. |
AaBbCc123 |
Book titles, new terms, and terms to be emphasized |
Read Chapter 6 in the User's Guide. A cache is a copy that is stored locally. Do not save the file. Note: Some emphasized items appear bold online. |
The following table shows the default UNIX system prompt and superuser prompt for the C shell, Bourne shell, and Korn shell.
Table P–2 Shell Prompts
Shell |
Prompt |
---|---|
C shell |
machine_name% |
C shell for superuser |
machine_name# |
Bourne shell and Korn shell |
$ |
Bourne shell and Korn shell for superuser |
# |
Information about related Sun Cluster Geographic Edition topics is available in the documentation that is listed in the following table. All Sun Cluster Geographic Edition documentation is available at http://docs.sun.com.
Topic |
Documentation |
---|---|
Overview | |
Glossary | |
Hardware administration |
Individual hardware administration guides |
Software installation | |
System administration |
Sun Cluster Geographic Edition System Administration Guide Sun Cluster Geographic Edition Data Replication Guide for Sun StorageTek Availability Suite Sun Cluster Geographic Edition Data Replication Guide for Hitachi TrueCopy Sun Cluster Geographic Edition Data Replication Guide for EMC Symmetrix Remote Data Facility |
Command and function references |
For a complete list of Sun Cluster documentation, see the release notes for your Sun Cluster software at http://docs.sun.com.
If you have problems installing or using the Sun Cluster Geographic Edition system, contact your service provider and provide the following information:
Your name and email address (if available)
Your company name, address, and phone number
The model and serial numbers of your systems
The release number of the OS (for example, Solaris 9)
The release number of the Sun Cluster Geographic Edition software (for example, 3.2)
Use the following commands to gather information about each node on your system for your service provider.
Command |
Function |
---|---|
prtconf -v |
Displays the size of the system memory and reports information about peripheral devices |
psrinfo -v |
Displays information about processors |
showrev –p |
Reports which patches are installed |
prtdiag -v |
Displays system diagnostic information |
geoadm -V |
Displays Sun Cluster Geographic Edition software release and package version information |
cluster status |
Provides a snapshot of the cluster status |
cluster show |
Lists cluster configuration information |
geoadm show |
Prints the Sun Cluster Geographic Edition runtime status of the local cluster |
Also have available the contents of the /var/adm/messages file.