Installing Server Inventory in a Cluster

Before installing Server Inventory in a cluster, make sure that you can map to the cluster volume using the Novell Client and also map to the cluster nodes. In the network path, enter the name of the virtual server.

The ZfS 3 Installation Wizard walks you through installing the Server Inventory software.

To install Server Inventory in a cluster:

1. Follow the instructions provided in Installing Server Inventory , keeping in mind the following cluster-specific details:

   • In Step 12, select the Cluster object, not any specific server.

     You can also select non-clustered servers at the same time you are installing to a cluster.

   • In Step 13.a, specify an installation path on a cluster-enabled volume.

   The Installation Wizard installs the Server Inventory software on the specified cluster-enabled volume. From that location, the Inventory server and the Database server will be able to run on any of the nodes in the cluster. If the node where they are running goes down, they automatically fail over to another node in the cluster.

   The Installation Wizard also updates the load and unload scripts associated with the Cluster object, which makes the failover/failback process possible.

2. In the load script, make sure that the following entries are in this sequence:

   add secondary ipaddress IP_address
;ZENworks Database Settings
SYS:\SYSTEM\MGMTDBS.NCF
INVCLST:\ZENWORKS\PDS\SMANAGER\ZFS.NCF
;ZENworks Inventory Settings
search add sys:\java\njclv2\bin
StartInv.ncf

3. In the unload script, make sure that the following entries are in this exact sequence:

   java -killtedexit
java -killzfsexit
java -killzwsexit
java -killzenWSInv
delay 8
unload dbsrv7.nlm <<y
del secondary ipaddress IP_address

4. To start the Inventory server or the Inventory database for the first time, offline the cluster and then online it again.

   This causes the clustering software to reread the updated load script and load the Inventory server or the Inventory database respectively.

If you have installed Server Inventory components only, do the following before starting the Inventory services:

1. In ConsoleOne, right-click the volume resource object.

2. Click Properties > click the Other tab > click the Edit option.

3. Double-click the NCS:Revision attribute.

4. Select the value > click the Modify button.

5. Increment the value by one.

6. Click Apply > Close.