Plan your clustered Messenger system.

See Section 22.1, Planning Your Messenger System in a Linux Cluster.

Create your Messenger system and install the Messenger agents.

See Section 22.2.1, Creating Your Messenger System and Installing the Messenger Agents.

If you use NSS volumes in your cluster, configure the Messenger agents so that they run as a non-root user.

See Setting Up Non-root Access on NSS Volumes on Each Node.

In ConsoleOne, change the locations of various Messenger files from their default locations on local nodes to the Messenger partition that is always available not matter what node the Messenger agents are running on.

See Section 22.2.2, Changing Messenger Paths to Locations on the Messenger Partition.

Modify the Messenger agents cluster resource load script.

See Modifying the Cluster Load Script for the Messenger Agents.

Modify the Messenger agents cluster resource unload script.

See Modifying the Cluster Resource Unload Script for the Messenger Agents.

Set up the Messenger agents failover list and policies.

See Setting the Failover List and Policies for the Messenger Agents.

Test your clustered Messenger system.

See Section 22.3, Testing Your Clustered Messenger System.