lan card

[Indrajit Bhagat]

What is the procedure for replacing a failed lan card on a cluster environment?

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom Indrajit,

Well, the NIC card is dead and the system must be shut down to replace it.

Shut down the system, replace the nic card and then bring it back up again.

If your cluster is configured correctly all services will run during the outage on the other node of the cluster.

If this NIC card is a single point of failure, your cluster is already dead, so proceed as noted above.

After both nodes are running, you will want to run some cmpkg commands to move your cluster back to normal running condition.

SEP

[Sp4admin]

Hello,

I agree with Steven. If your NIC failed then yor package would which to the other node. That why it nice to have SG. So you vcan do work on the node that has a problem.

[rick jones]

Depending on your hardware and the OS rev and patches, it is not necessary to bring the entire system down to replace a failed LAN card. Check docs.hp.com for "OLAR" "online replace" or such. I believe the "rad" (?) command may be useful there.