Case Sensitivity Issues; Adding A New Netware Node To A Mixed-Node Cluster; Converting Multiple Netware Cluster Nodes To Oes 2 Linux - Novell OPEN ENTERPRISE SERVER - CONVERSION GUIDE 12-2010 Manual

IMPORTANT: If the commands in cluster resource's load or unload scripts are not part of the
normal translation library, the cluster resource can end up in a comatose state.
Beginning in OES 2 SP2, Novell Cluster Services allows you to customize the translation syntax
that is used for load and unload scripts in mixed-node clusters by defining them in the
novell/ncs/customized_translation_syntax
reads the additional translation syntax from the syntax file. For information, see
"Customizing the Translation Syntax for Converting Load and Unload Scripts," on page

1.5 Case Sensitivity Issues

When adding a Linux node to the existing NetWare cluster, there are two areas where case
sensitivity might be an issue:

Node name: After you install the Linux node into the NetWare cluster, the Linux node is
unable to join the cluster. To resolve this problem, edit the
file to modify the hostname of the node from lowercase (
characters (CLUSNODE1), reboot the server, then run the
This allows the cluster node to start and join the cluster.
NOTE: This case sensitivity issue has been resolved for OES 2 SP2 and later.

Cluster object name: The Cluster object name (such as
cn=Clustername,ou=context,o=org
(
Clustername.sbd
command displays the SBD name. If the case used when you enter the Cluster object name
-f
and SBD name during the Linux cluster install do not match the case used in eDirectory, the
cluster install fails to detect the SBD partition.
1.6 Adding a New NetWare Node to a Mixed-
Node Cluster
You cannot add additional NetWare nodes to your cluster after adding a new Linux node or changing
an existing NetWare cluster node to a Linux cluster node. If you want to add NetWare cluster nodes
after converting part of your cluster to Linux, you must first remove the Linux nodes from the
cluster.
1.7 Converting Multiple NetWare Cluster Nodes
to OES 2 Linux
If you attempt to concurrently convert multiple NetWare cluster servers to OES 2 Linux, we strongly
recommend that you use the old NetWare node IP addresses for your Linux cluster servers. You
should record the NetWare node IP addresses before converting them to Linux.
If you must assign new node IP addresses, we recommend that you only convert one node at a time.
) is also present on the SBD partition. The SBD name
) matches the case of the object name in eDirectory. Running the
file that you create. The
clstrlib.py
/etc/opt/novell/ncs/nodename
) to all uppercase
clusnode1
rcnovell-ncs start
Planning the Cluster Conversion
/var/opt/
script
Section 3.7,
25.
command.
sbdutil
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