Cluster Partitioned ! Help

[Volker Halle]

Mike,

CLUSTER_AUTHORIZE.DAT will be created in SYS$COMMON:[SYSEXE], if you enable LAN as a cluster interconnect. You need to specify a cluster group number (must be unique within your local network) and a password.

Volker.

[Willem Grooters]

Oher issues may be of concern if you allow cluster traffic over the LAN - even in case of failover.

* If the network gets congested- for whatever reason - it could disrupt cluster traffic causing hickups in the cluster nodes - if not crash a system.
* Cluster traffic is NOT secured so it might break security policy.

It might therefore be a good idea to have a NIC in each system for fail-over cluster communication only. I assume SCACP has facilities for that :)

WG