Installing Management and Monitoring Services in a Cluster

Before installing Management and Monitoring Services in a cluster, make sure that you can map to the cluster volume using the name of the virtual server for the cluster node that is using the Novell Client^TM.

The installation program walks you through installing the Management and Monitoring Services software.

To install Management and Monitoring Services in a cluster:

1. Follow the instructions provided in Installing and Setting Up Management and Monitoring Services, keeping in mind the following cluster-specific detail:

   • In Step 11, choose the destination volume for the components from the Authenticated Tree option through the cluster virtual server.

     The DNS entry for the virtual server object must be there, or the hosts file in the Windows* folder needs to have an entry for the virtual server object for the cluster volume where you want to install.

     If the same cluster volume is selected using the mapped drive option or by expanding the cluster node servers, then the install is considered to be a normal install and the system files will not be copied to all the cluster nodes. Therefore the product will only work on that node.

     IMPORTANT:  The NetWare Management Agent cannot be installed on a cluster volume because it is used to manage the cluster node servers. To manage all the nodes, the Netware Management Agent needs to be present on all the nodes.

2. After installation in the cluster, manually add the following line to the cluster volume load script:

   SYS:\SYSTEM\MMSSTART.NCF

3. Ensure that the following lines are present in the cluster volume unload script in the order shown:

   SYS:\SYSTEM\MMSSTOP.NCF

   UNLOAD DBSRV7.NLM

   IMPORTANT:  If you have already installed ZfS 3.0.2 Server Inventory in a clustered environment, add the SYS:\SYSTEM\MMSSTOP.NCF before the UNLOAD DBSRV7.NLM entry.

4. Ensure that the volume ID is less than 32 for Net Explorer^TM to work. This is because of the BTRIEVE database restriction. To specify the volume ID, use the following command in the load script:

   mount volume_name VOLID = volume_number

5. You must install the LANalyzer^® Agent^TM on the cluster volume only if all the cluster nodes are on the same segment. If you do not, the agent will not provide consistent information when you change the cluster node.

   If you are installing the LANalyzer Agent on a shared volume, update the LANZ.NCF file in the ZfS_Agnt\LANZ directory by adding the location where you want the trend files to be generated as shown:

   load GTREND.NLM \dvolume_name:\directory