Symantec 5 manual About the VCS installation program, Optional features of the installvcs program

Installing and configuring VCS 55

About the VCS installation program

■VRTSvcsmn — Manual pages for VCS commands

About the VCS installation program

You can access the installvcs program from the command line or through the

Veritas product installer.

The VCS installation program is interactive and manages the following tasks:

■Licensing VCS

■Installing VCS RPMs on multiple cluster systems

■Configuring VCS, by creating several detailed configuration files on each system

■Starting VCS processes

You can choose to configure different optional features, such as the following:

■SNMP and SMTP notification

■The Symantec Product Authentication Services feature

■The wide area Global Cluster feature

Review the highlights of the information for which installvcs program prompts you as you proceed to configure.

See “About preparing to install VCS” on page 29.

The uninstallvcs program, a companion to installvcs program, uninstalls VCS

RPMs.

See “About the uninstallvcs program” on page 153.

Optional features of the installvcs program

Table 4-1specifies the optional actions that the installvcs program can perform.

Table 4-1	installvcs optional features
Optional action	Reference

Check the systems to verify that they meet the requirements to install VCS.

Install VCS RPMs without configuring VCS.

Configure or reconfigure VCS when VCS RPMs are already installed.

See “Performing automated pre-installation check” on page 49.

See “Installing VCS using installonly option” on page 59.

See “Configuring VCS using configure option” on page 59.