E.36 January 29, 2010 (Maintenance Patch)

Updates were made to the following sections. The changes are explained below.

E.36.1 Installing and Configuring Novell Cluster Services on OES 2 Linux

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Novell eDirectory 8.8.6

You can install an eDirectory master replica or replica in the cluster, but it is not required to do so for Novell Cluster Services. (eDirectory must be installed somewhere in the same tree.)

SBD Partitions

If you plan to mirror the SBD, you must also initialize the partition you want to use as the mirrored SBD, and mark its device as shareable for clustering.

Configuring a New Cluster

For each SBD partition, you must have at least 20 MB of free space on a device that has been initialized and marked as shareable for clustering.

Adding a Node to an Existing Cluster

Step 1 is new. If you have a shared disk system attached to your cluster servers, an SBD partition is required and must be created before you configure the second node in the cluster.

E.36.2 Managing Clusters

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Generating a Cluster Configuration Report

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E.36.3 Troubleshooting Novell Cluster Services

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Section 15.4, Diagnosing Cluster Problems

Cluster configuration. An HTML report created by the Clusters > Cluster Manager > Run Report option in the Clusters plug-in to iManager.

Cluster Resource Is Stuck in "NDS Sync" or "eDirectory Sync" State

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E.36.4 What’s New

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What’s New (January 2010 Patches)

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