How to add a new lan card (standby) to an active package-less SG cluster

[frederick hannah]

SG only sees lan1 via the "cmviewcl -v" command. I have a viable lan 3 port which I want to add to the package-less configuration as the stand-by card. How can I add the new lan card without stopping the cluster? and if I stop the cluster, will lan1 be disable and I generate an unscheduled outage?

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

A package free cluster provides no services.

Therefore stopping the cluster won't create an outage because no services are running.

You can use cmhaltnode and take the node you are adding the NIC card into out of the cluster, do the work and it will rejoin the cluster after the boot.

If you have service running and they all will run properly on the node you are not touching, you will be fine.

SEP

[frederick hannah]

So lan1, currently "seen" by SG, wont become non-operational? When you refer to boot, do u mean boucing the cluster or a server reboot? Finally, i have added the lan3 card entry into the /etc/cmcluster/cmclconfig.ascii file. Would restarting the add the new card or would I need extra steps?