Chapter 4. HACMP Installation and Cluster Definition
This chapter describes issues concerning the actual installation of HACMP Version 4.3 and the definition of a cluster and its resources. It concentrates on the HACMP part of the installation, so, we will assume AIX is already at the 4.3.2 level. Please refer to the AIX Version 4.3: Migration Guide,
This chapter is meant to give an overview of the steps to be taken, and not to be a complete handbook for performing these tasks. When actually performing the HACMP install, the HACMP for AIX, Version 4.3: Installation Guide,
4.1 Installing HACMP
Before installing, you need to ensure that all the prerequisites are met. Chapter 8 of the HACMP for AIX, Version 4.3: Installation Guide,
You can install either from the installation media, from an installation server through Network Installation Management (NIM), or from a hard disk to which the software has been copied.
You will either be installing the HACMP for AIX software for the first time, or upgrading from an earlier version. Both of those situations are discussed in the following sections.
4.1.1 First Time Installs
There are a number of filesets involved in an HACMP Installation. Here is a short overview of them, and what their purpose is.
• cluster.base
This is the basic component that has to be installed on all server nodes in the cluster, and it contains the following:
cluster.base.client.lib | HACMP Base Client Libraries |
cluster.base.client.rte | HACMP Base Client Runtime |
cluster.base.client.utils | HACMP Base Client Utilities |
cluster.base.server.diag | HACMP Base Server Diags |
cluster.base.server.events | HACMP Base Server Events |
cluster.base.server.rte | HACMP Base Server Runtime |
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