topic Re: NIS Server Migration in Operating System - HP-UX

NIS Server Migration

Omprakash_2 — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 04:54:11 GMT

Hi,

Can any one help me to Migrate NIS server to another workstation. If possible i required step by step procedure.

Re: NIS Server Migration

Ganesan R — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 05:28:01 GMT

Hi Omprakash,

You can configure workstation as NIS slave server and synchronise the NIS database. Later on you can remove the master and promote workstation as master server.

Re: NIS Server Migration

TTr — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:47:06 GMT

There is no "promoting" of NIS slaves to master.
You need to have all the actual files that are used to build the NIS maps on the new workstation. These files are /etc/passwd, /etc/group, /etc/hosts and others. Then you configure the workstation to be a master NIS server (and a client)
http://docs.hp.com/en/5992-2187/apas01.html
http://docs.hp.com/en/5992-0714/5992-0714.pdf
(You did not specify your HP-UX version).
Ensure that the NIS slaves bind to the new master, or reinitialize them, (the master pushes its maps, including the NIS-servers map, down to the slaves and normally you don't need to do anything with the slaves). Same with the clients, if they are on the same segment they should find the new master if you turn off the old master NIS service.

Re: NIS Server Migration

Omprakash_2 — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 02:03:32 GMT

Thanks