[Veritas-ha] IP Issue with VCS

[Todd Stansell]

Also, VCS only creates virtual IP's on already plumbed interfaces, so make
sure you have the interface plumbed automatically with some dummy address.
If that's not happening, VCS won't be able to add the virtual.

Todd

On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 12:07:36PM -0500, Scott, Martin wrote:
> Chris,
> 
> What are your "requires" for the IP address?  You may have a timing issue
> here.  The NIC should always be online, but depending on what you are doing
> the online of the IP address resource may be happening before everything is
> ready for it.  If you are not already doing it, add a "IP requires NIC"
> statement.  I am suggesting the first thing that comes to mind without
> knowing your main.cf configuration.  
> 
> I had a problem with Netscape Servers that did not have a requires on the
> dedicated IP address for that Server - the Server simply did not start -
> with no logging messages or errors when it just happened that the Server
> came up before the IP address was plumbed and onlined.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Martin D. Scott
> Compuware
> Martin.Scott at compuware.com <mailto:Martin.Scott at compuware.com> 
> (248) 737-7300 x 16169
> 
> 
> 		-----Original Message-----
> 		From:	Charette, Christopher
> [mailto:Christopher.Charette at compaq.com]
> 		Sent:	Thursday, March 23, 2000 8:56 AM
> 		To:	'veritas-ha at mailman.eng.auburn.edu'
> 		Subject:	[Veritas-ha] IP Issue with VCS
> 
> 		Hey Everyone,
> 		I'm looking for a little help here with Cluster Server.  I
> have two Sun
> 		UE4500s set up to be a cluster.  I set up the cluster (with
> the
> 		certification software) to have 2 shared disks on each
> server, 2 mount
> 		points on each server, 2 share directories on each server, a
> nic card, nfs,
> 		and an ip address for each server.  The systems both come up
> fine.  I then
> 		offline a group and bring up online to the other server.
> Everything works
> 		fine.  I then offline that same group and try to bring it
> back online to the
> 		original server.  Here's where the issue shows up.  The
> entire group starts
> 		up except for the IP address.  I can't figure out why this
> is.  The takeover
> 		server tookover the IP address when it owned the group, then
> it released it
> 		when it lost the group.  The problem is, the original server
> won't take it's
> 		IP address back.  When I do an ifconfig -a, I get the inet
> address as
> 		0.0.0.0.  Has anyone ever seen this before?  Is there any
> sort of way to
> 		correct this problem?
> 
> 		Thanks,
> 		Chris Charette
> 		Compaq Computer Corporation
> 
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