cmclnodelist on the version of 11.16 cluster

[Hanry Zhou]

the cmclnodelist file (including all nodes in the cluster) will be still used when you first time run cmquerycl command on a 11.16 cluster, otherwise the command will be not working. Is that correct?

[melvyn burnard · Accepted solution]

With 11.16 of Serviceguard, the cmclnodelist is only used at initial cluster creation.
Once this has been done, it is ignored.
refer to :
http://docs.hp.com/en/B3935-90078/B3935-90078.pdf
page 9 last paragraph has some info.

[Uday_S_Ankolekar]

Yes....
This is the highlights form TKB..
With A.11.16, if a node is configured in a cluster, Serviceguard checks its
configuration files' access policies for permissions. Once a cluster is
configured, Serviceguard will not look for a cmclnodelist or .rhosts file, as
it does on earlier versions of Serviceguard.

With A.11.16, if a node is not configured in a cluster, Serviceguard will
check for an /etc/cmcluster/cmclnodelist file. Although the file is no
longer automatically created when Serviceguard is installed, you can
deliberately create one to use as a temporary "bootstrap" until the node does
join a cluster. Once the node is configured into a cluster, Serviceguard
will no longer look at the file.

[Geoff Wild]

Yes - that is correct - just went through that 2 weeks ago at my site. Once cluster was created - it is okay to remove the cmclnodelist file.

Rgds...Geoff