Configuration Requirements - Novell OPEN ENTERPRISE SERVER 2 SP 2 - CLUSTER SERVICES 1.8.7 FOR LINUX Manual

3.1.3 Configuration Requirements

Ensure that configuration requirements are met for these components:
"IP Addresses" on page 34
"eDirectory Configuration" on page 34
"Cluster Services Installation Administrator" on page 34
"Cluster Services Management Administrator" on page 35
"Web Browser" on page 36
IP Addresses
All IP addresses used by the master cluster IP address, its cluster servers, and its cluster
resources must be on the same IP subnet.They do not need to be contiguous addresses.
Each server in the cluster must be configured with a unique static IP address.
You need additional unique static IP addresses for the cluster and for each cluster resource and
cluster-enabled pool.
eDirectory Configuration
All servers in the cluster must be in the same Novell eDirectory tree.
If the servers in the cluster are in separate eDirectory containers, the user who administers the
cluster must have rights to the cluster server containers and to the containers where any cluster-
enabled pool objects are stored. You can do this by adding trustee assignments for the cluster
administrator to a parent container of the containers where the cluster server objects reside. See
"eDirectory Rights" (http://www.novell.com/documentation/edir88/edir88/data/fbachifb.html)
in the eDirectory 8.8 Administration Guide for more information.
If you are creating a new cluster, the eDirectory context where the new Cluster object will
reside must be an existing context. Specifying a new context during the Novell Cluster Services
install configuration does not create a new context.
Multiple clusters can co-exist in the same eDirectory container.
Cluster Services Installation Administrator
A tree administrator user with credentials to do so can extend the eDirectory schema before a
cluster is installed anywhere in a tree. Extending the schema separately allows a container
administrator (or non-administrator user) to install a cluster in a container in that same tree
without needing full administrator rights for the tree. For instructions, see
"Extending the eDirectory Schema to Add Cluster Objects," on page
IMPORTANT: It is not necessary to extend the schema separately if the installer of the first
cluster server in the tree has the eDirectory rights necessary to extend the schema.
After the schema has been extended, the container administrator (or non-administrator user)
needs the following eDirectory rights to install Novell Cluster Services:
Attribute Modify rights on the NCP Server object of each node in the cluster.
To set the Attribute Modify rights for the user on the nodes' NCP Server objects:
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1. In iManager, select Rights > Modify Trustees.
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