To Set Up the OTP High Availability Framework on the First OTP Host

Availability services must first be set up on the first OTP host in your clustered OTP system.

Before You Begin

• The first OTP host must be connected to shared storage

• The external OTP installation server must be set up and verified as described in To Install the OTP Services, Agent, and Plug-ins on the External OTP Installation Server

• The Solaris OS and the remote agent must be installed on all of thenew OTP hosts as described in Installing Solaris 10 Update 2 and the Remote Agent on the OTP Hosts

• All hosts in the clustered OTP system must be added to the external OTP installation server hosts list as described in To Add Hosts to the External OTP Installation Server

1. Open a Web browser and log in to the external OTP installation server service provisioning service.

   Go to URL http://install server:9090 where install server is either the IP address or the fully qualified name of the external OTP installation server.

2. Click OEM OTP to display the Open Telecommunications Platform home page.

3. Click Step 1. OTP High Availability Framework on First Host: Install and Configure.

   The edit availability plan page appears.

   Figure 5–10 Clustered OTP Host Edit Availability Plan Page: System Management Server

   
   

4. Click run.

   The Availability Plan Variables page appears. Scroll the page down to view the variables:

   Figure 5–11 Clustered OTP Host Availability Plan Variables Page: System Management Server Variables

   
   

   Type the host name on which you want to install Sun OTP in the target host field. Do not modify the target host set.

   Type the information in the plan variables fields according to your Clustered OTP Host Plan Worksheet. Refer to the OTP System Plan Settings Descriptions for information about each variable.

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   Caution –

   Set limit overall running time of plan and limit running time of native calls to 2 hours each.

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5. Click run plan (includes preflight).

   The page refreshes, and a progress bar is displayed during the provisioning process.

   The provisioning process:

   • Installs required Solaris OS patches

   • Installs the OTP high availability framework

   • Configures the first OTP host

   • Reboots the first OTP host

   • Verifies the first OTP host configuration

Next Steps

Set up availability services on the additional OTP hosts as described in the next procedure.