Server = fse-server1.company.com

NOTE: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 (SLES 9) systems only: Do not run YaST2 after you have configured this FSE host to use a private network for the FSE interprocess communication. Running YaST2 modifies /etc/hosts in such a way that subsequent FSE system startups will fail.

Alternatively, you can modify /etc/sysconfig/suseconfig by changing the line

CHECK_ETC_HOSTS="yes" to CHECK_ETC_HOSTS="no". You can then run YaST2 without affecting the FSE system operation, but you cannot modify host names with it.

Configuring communication on external FSE clients

NOTE: This configuration step is mandatory regardless of the platform of the consolidated FSE system or FSE server.

Ordinary LAN connection

If the external FSE clients and the consolidated FSE system or the FSE server communicate through the ordinary LAN, you only need to modify the services.cfg file on each external FSE client and comment out some parameters in the omniORB.cfg file. Do the following:

1.Modify the value of the server variable in services.cfg to include the fully-qualified domain name (FQDN) of the consolidated FSE system or the FSE server the client is connected to. For example:

2.In the omniORB.cfg file on the external FSE client, verify that all lines in the section

--- Private network parameters --- are inactive (commented out).

Private network connection

If the external FSE clients and the consolidated FSE system or the FSE server communicate through a private network, you must modify both configuration files, services.cfg and omniORB.cfg, on each external Linux client. The following procedure includes the necessary modification steps:

1.Modify the value of the server variable in services.cfg to contain the fully-qualified domain name (FQDN) that identifies the consolidated FSE system or the FSE server inside the private network.

2.Add the hostname variable to services.cfg and provide as its value the FQDN that identifies the Linux FSE client system inside the private network.

The following is an example of a properly configured services.cfg file in FSE setups using a private network:

hostname = fseclient.fsenet

server = fseserver.fsenet

3.In the omniORB.cfg file, configure the parameters in the section

--- Private network parameters --- with the following information:

•the FQDN that identifies the system inside the private network

•the IP address of the system

•the subnet mask

All these parameters must be verified against the actual private network configuration. Ensure that the FQDN you specify in omniORB.cfg matches the FQDN specified for the hostname variable in the

services.cfg file.

The following example is an excerpt from a properly configured omniORB.cfg file:

#--- Private network parameters ---

#Which network interface omniORB uses for IORs

42 Installing FSE software

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HP File System Extender (FSE) manual Configuring communication on external FSE clients

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Configuring communication on external FSE clients

Ordinary LAN connection