cmquerycl fails with error

[Anoop P_2]

Hi Folks,

I'm trying to build a new two node cluster, and I'm issuing cmquerycl as the first step:

node1#cmquerycl -v -C /etc/cmcluster/clusternew.config -n node1 -n node2

Begin checking the nodes...
Looking for other clusters ... Done
Gathering configuration information .......... Done
Error: Unable to determine device configuration: failed to send device query to node node1
Error: Unable to determine device configuration: failed to send device query to node node2
Error: Unable to determine lvm configuration: failed to send lvm query to node node1
Error: Unable to determine lvm configuration: failed to send lvm query to node node2
Warning: Not probing node node1 as it is currently unreachable.
This may cause network partitions to be reported.
Warning: Not probing node node2 as it is currently unreachable.
This may cause network partitions to be reported.
Failed to gather configuration information.

The relevant entries are present in cmclnodelist as well as .rhosts (even though that does not matter)
The relevant entries are present in /etc/inetd.conf file and system is listening on ports designated for configuration and probe.
The product I have is:

B3935DA A.11.15.00 MC / ServiceGuard

The nodes are able to ping to each other with out trouble.

What am I missing? What should I do to get rid of that error?

Will assign points to deserving answers. Thanks!
Anoop

[Stephen Doud · Accepted solution]

The message "failed to send device query to node" has been seen in conjunction with configuration oversights based on the document "Editing Security Files for Serviceguard, March 2005" which is located at this site: http://docs.hp.com/en/6283/SGsecurityfiles.pdf

The files to focus on are /etc/hosts and /etc/nsswitch.conf on EVERY node in the cluster.

Insure that all fixed IPs on each node are listed in /etc/hosts
Insure that all fixed IPs are also aliased to the simply hostname of the server. <-- This last configuration requirement is -THE- most common cause of "permission denied" and errors such as the one that you are seeing.

[Siju Vadakkan]

# more /etc/inetd.conf | grep auth
auth stream tcp6 wait root /usr/lbin/identd identd
#

Use "-k" option with cmquerycl to avoid disk probing.