HP LH4r Novell NetWare Cluster Services for NetWare 5 Installation guide - Page 15

Installing NetWare Cluster Services The NetWare Cluster Services installation • Creates a new Cluster object in NDS. • Installs NetWare Cluster Services software on the servers you specify to be part of your cluster. • Updates the AUTOEXEC.NCF file on each of the servers in your cluster. Note changes to AUTOEXEC.NCF: • LOAD TCPIP.NLM is replaced with LOAD TCPIP.NLM FORWARD=NO This command disables IP forwarding. If IP forwarding is enabled, client reconnect will not function, and users won't automatically reconnect to different servers in the cluster after failover. • NSS is replaced with NSS/AUTODEACTIVATE VOLUME=ALL NetWare Cluster Services automatically mounts cluster volumes on specified servers in the cluster. This command ensures that cluster volumes don't accidentally get mounted on multiple servers in the cluster, which would cause data corruption. Without this command, the MOUNT ALL command could be run from any server console and that server would try to mount a volume that might already be mounted on another server in the cluster. Once you have created a cluster, you will need to run the NetWare Cluster Services installation again each time you want to add servers to your cluster. NetWare Cluster Services Licensing NetWare Cluster Services changes the licensing scheme currently provided with NetWare 5. The license changes performed by the NetWare Cluster Services installation depend on whether you have a Master License Agreement (MLA). Changes to NetWare 5 non-MLA licensing include: • The server base licenses for each cluster server are deleted and are replaced with a server base license upgrade. This server base license upgrade works specifically with NetWare Cluster Services. Chapter 2: Installation and Setup 9