Symantec Veritas Cluster Server One, Installation Manual

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37 Installing and configuring the VCS One Policy Master
Before you install the Policy Master
Preserving the configuration across reboots
To preserve your configuration across reboots
1 Save your test IP address on the base of each NIC. Do not use the
addif
command. Enter the following at the beginning of the
/etc/hostname. pm_nic
file:
test_ip netmask netmask bro deprecated -failover
up \
where
pm_nic
is the Policy Master NIC,
test_ip
is the IP address for that
NIC (and the IP address that you use to test your network connection), and
netmask
is your Policy Master netmask.
2 If you need additional IP addresses on the Policy Master NIC, such as host IP
addresses, you can plumb the other IP addresses. Enter the following lines in
the
/etc/hostname. pm_nic
file, after the line you entered in step 1 :
addif additional_ip netmask netmask bro up
where
pm_nic
is the Policy Master NIC,
additional_ip
is any additional
IP address you need to plumb, and
netmask
is your Policy Master netmask.
Preparing your network on Linux
On Linux, if the incorrect netmask is used to plumb the Base IP address, the
network may not work. Symantec recommends using MultiNICA Performance
Mode in the Policy Master service group (PMSG). MultiNICA Performance Mode
requires a unique Base IP address with the correct Netmask addresses plumbed
on the required NICs.
See the Veritas Cluster Server One Bundled Agents Reference Guide for
information about MultiNICA Performance Mode.
Preparing Policy Master cluster information
Before you install the Policy Master software, have the following information
ready:
■
Names of the systems to install the Policy Master software
Make sure that you can ping each system name from each of the Policy
Master systems.
If the Policy Master systems are in the same time zone, clock times on each
system must be within 30 minutes of one another. If the clock times are
more than 30 minutes apart, the installation may fail. Use the
ntpdate
command to synchronize clock times.
■
A unique name for the Policy Master cluster, such as vcsonepm_cluster.