07-26-2013
I think a system - any system, not only HACMP-nodes - having gone through a power-cycle should not be started automatically, because there was surely a reason for having come down in first place. A simple power-cycle will most certainly not correcct that problem and the machine should stay down until an admin can verify the system to be OK and initiate the application startup.
If a system is important enough for a downtime (usually until the next morning) not to be feasible then a HACMP-system should replace the single system. If it is important enough that not even the downtime of a standby-node can be tolerated then you need an admin available 24/7. It can't be stressed often enough: unstoppable service costs money. To place a system somehwere and then blame it on the admin that the hardware/software turns out not to be running non-stop without any maintenance is idiotic (and nevertheless oftenly seen).
Admins, btw., are not without fault at all. Not, because they cannot make the impossible possible, but because they didn't object from the first minute a plan for such a system has been hatched.
Back to the original question: i think it is better to start the cluster manager manually and i always configure my systems to work that way.
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time-admin
time-admin(1) User Commands time-admin(1)
NAME
time-admin - Basic configuration of system time, date, timezone and NTP client.
SYNOPSIS
time-admin [gnome-std-options]
DESCRIPTION
time-admin enables the user to configure the default timezone and current date/time on the system. It also enables the user to turn on
auto-synchronisation of this using NTP.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
gnome-std-options Standard options available for use with most GNOME applications. See gnome-std-options(5) for more informa-
tion.
EXAMPLES
Example 1: Running the main application.
example% time-admin
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0 Application exited successfully
>0 Application exited with failure
FILES
The following files are used by this application:
/usr/bin/time-admin Executable for time and date configuration.
/var/spool/setup-tool-backends/backup/time
Backup directory for files that are modified.
/var/run/setup-tool-backends/debug/time
Debug logs can be found under here.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWgnome-system-tools |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface stability |Uncommitted |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
Latest version of the GNOME Desktop User Guide for your platform.
users-admin(1), shares-admin(1), services-admin(1), network-admin(1), gnome-std-options(5), rtc(1M), ntpdate(1M), xntpd(1M), attributes(5)
NOTES
Written by Darren Kenny, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2006.
SunOS 5.11 6 Nov 2006 time-admin(1)