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Operating Systems Solaris changing time in cluster mode sun solaris Post 302305179 by incredible on Wednesday 8th of April 2009 07:35:50 AM

04-08-2009

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Time between all nodes in a cluster must be synchronized. Whether you synchronize the cluster nodes with any outside time source is not important to cluster operation. The Sun Cluster software employs the Network Time Protocol (NTP) to synchronize the clocks between nodes.

In general, a change in the system clock of a fraction of a second causes no problems. However, if you run date, rdate, or xntpdate (interactively, or within cron scripts) on an active cluster, you can force a time change much larger than a fraction of a second to synchronize the system clock to the time source. This forced change might cause problems with file modification timestamps or confuse the NTP service.

When you install the Solaris Operating System on each cluster node, you have an opportunity to change the default time and date setting for the node. In general, you can accept the factory default.

When you install Sun Cluster software by using the scinstall command, one step in the process is to configure NTP for the cluster. Sun Cluster software supplies a template file, ntp.cluster (see /etc/inet/ntp.cluster on an installed cluster node), that establishes a peer relationship between all cluster nodes. One node is designated the “preferred” node. Nodes are identified by their private host names and time synchronization occurs across the cluster interconnect. For instructions about how to configure the cluster for NTP

Alternately, you can set up one or more NTP servers outside the cluster and change the ntp.conf file to reflect that configuration.

In normal operation, you should never need to adjust the time on the cluster. However, if the time was set incorrectly when you installed the Solaris Operating System and you want to change it

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scversions

scversions(1M)						  System Administration Commands					    scversions(1M)

NAME

       scversions - Sun Cluster version management

SYNOPSIS

       scversions [-c]

DESCRIPTION

       Note -

	 Beginning  with  the Sun Cluster 3.2 release, Sun Cluster software includes an object-oriented command set. Although Sun Cluster software
	 still supports the original command set, Sun Cluster procedural documentation uses only the object-oriented command set. For more  infor-
	 mation about the object-oriented command set, see the Intro(1CL) man page.

       The  scversions	command  commits  the cluster to a new level of functionality after a rolling-upgrade to new Sun Cluster software. With no
       arguments, the scversions command prints a message indicating whether a commitment is needed.

OPERANDS

       The following operands are supported:

       -c	    Commit the set of nodes that are currently active members of the cluster to the highest possible level of functionality.

		    When you upgrade a node (either through upgrade to a new release of the product or by application of a patch) and boot it back
		    into  the  cluster, some of the internal protocols on that node might have to run at lower versions in order to cooperate cor-
		    rectly with other nodes in the cluster.  When the cluster is in this state, some administrative actions might be disabled  and
		    some new functionality introduced in the upgrade might be unavailable.

		    When  you  run  this  command once from any node after all nodes are upgraded, the cluster switches to the highest versions of
		    internal protocols possible. Assuming that all nodes have the same Sun Cluster software installed at that time, all new  func-
		    tionality becomes available and any administrative restrictions are removed.

		    If	a  node that has not been upgraded is an active member of the cluster at the time you run the -c option to scversions, the
		    command has no effect because the cluster is already running at the highest possible level of functionality.

		    If a node has not been upgraded and is not an active member of the cluster when you run the -c option to scversions (for exam-
		    ple,  if  that  node is down for maintenance), the internal protocols of the cluster are upgraded to the highest possible ver-
		    sions.  You might have to upgrade the node that was not an active member of the cluster to enable it to rejoin the cluster.

EXIT STATUS

       0	    Success

       non-zero     Failure

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWsczu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |Evolving			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       scinstall(1M)

Sun Cluster 3.2 						    17 Aug 2007 						    scversions(1M)