If you have not partitioned each clustered OTP system server's hard drive to include the /globaldevices file system as described in Table 3–1 during installation of the operating system, then you must create and configure the /globaldevices file system on each server in order to enable management of global devices.
The OTP high availability framework requires the /globaldevices file system on one of the local disks on each clustered OTP system server's hard drive. The /globaldevices file system is later mounted as the OTP cluster file system.
For further information about global devices, see the Sun Cluster Concepts Guide for Solaris OS. For information on planning for the global devices file system, see Sun Cluster Software Installation Guide for Solaris OS.
Skip the following procedure If you have already created a /globaldevices file system containing at least 512 Mbytes on the hard drive of each of the clustered OTP systems.
If you have not allocated the /globaldevices file system on one of the local disks on each clustered OTP system server, then you must perform the following procedure on each server in the clustered OTP system.
Log on to the server as root (su - root)
Type newfs /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s3 to create the cluster file system
In this step and the following steps, the file system is mounted on disk slice 3. You can create and mount the file system on any available slice.
If the server has more than one disk, the /globaldevices file system can be created on a disk other than the disk containing the root file system.
Add the following line to the file /etc/vfstab.
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s3 /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s3 /globaldevices ufs 2 no global,logging
Type mkdir /globaldevices to create the cluster global devices directory.
Type mount /globaldevices to mount the /globaldevices file system
Install the Open Telecommunications Platform on each of your OTP system servers using either of the following two methods:
Install the Open Telecommunications Platform using the command line as described in Chapter 4, Installing the Open Telecommunications Platform Using the Command Line. An external OTP installation server is not required using this method.
Install the Open Telecommunications Platform using the graphical user interface (GUI) installation as described in Chapter 5, Installing the Open Telecommunications Platform Using the Graphical User Interface. An external OTP installation server is required for this method.
The external OTP installation server is a temporary server, and is needed only for the duration of the GUI-based installation and configuration process.