Problem installing CFS on 11.23

[Des Albert_1]

I started to work on a 10gR2 RAC installation using the T2797BA ( HP ServiceGuard CFS for RAC on MCOE ) software and the 0609 HPUX 11.23 on Itanium.
After I successfully start the ServiceGuard Cluster, I create the CFS cluster with
# cfscluster config –t 900 –s
This fails with this message in /etc/cmcluster/cfs/SG-CFS-pkg.log
01/23/07 16:02:07 /sbin/vxfen-startup (exit=0)
VCS FEN vxfenconfig ERROR V-11-2-1022 Active cluster is currently fencing. Retry command.
VCS FEN vxfenconfig NOTICE Driver will use customized fencing - mechanism sg
Cluster presently fencing out a node.
Operation will be retried.
VCS FEN vxfenconfig ERROR V-11-2-1038 Unable to configure VxFEN since client is
not ready for this.
VCS FEN vxfenconfig NOTICE Driver will use customized fencing - mechanism sg
01/23/07 16:02:07 ERROR: Failed to start VXFEN

Both servers then crash
I have started with clean installs of the OS with the recommended patches for HP-UX, CFS and ServiceGuard.

[Sameer_Nirmal]

The T2797BA is a add-on bundle which is basically MCOE + T2777BA.

Check if the patches are installed on the systems as per this link.

http://h71028.www7.hp.com/enterprise/cache/286850-0-0-0-121.html

I guess you are missing patches which is causing the trouble.

[Stephen Doud]

Yes - patches are necessary to get CFS functionality to work properly.

See "HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Extracts, December 2005" - Page 14
at http://docs.hp.com/en/7411/T2771-90009.pdf

Also see "HP Serviceguard Version A.11.17 Release Notes, December 2005 (revised" - page 28
at http://docs.hp.com/en/B3935-90085/B3935-90085.pdf

After these documents were made public, Serviceguard Storage Management Suite
patches were released.

PATCH NUMBER DESCRIPTION
PHCO_33522 VxFS Manpage Cumulative patch 1 SMS Bundle
PHKL_33566 GLM Kernel cumulative patch 1 SMS Bundle
PHKL_33620 GMS Kernel cumulative patch 1 SMS Bundle
PHNE_34664 GAB cumulative patch 2 SMS Bundle
PHKL_34741 VxFEN Kernel cumulative patch 1 SMS Bundle
PHNE_35353 LLT Kernel cumulative patch 3 SMS Bundle

Note, above patches may have been superceded.

[Des Albert_1]

Thanks for the responses. I have now fixed the problem. It seemed obvious that it was a patch problem but the difficulty is finding the 'right' patches

I was advised via WTEC that the document at http://www.hp.com/go/sgsms/patches provides the most up-to-date list but there are are still some changes required.

Here is the list I used

â ¢ PHCO_33080 PHCO_33082 800 11.23 VERITAS Enterprise Administrator Srvc Patch
â ¢ PHCO_33081 s700_800 11.23 VERITAS Enterprise Administrator Patch
â ¢ PHCO_33385 s700_800 11.23 kernel configuration commands patch
â ¢ PHCO_33522 s700_800 11.23 VxFS Manpage Cumulative patch 1 SMS Bundle
â ¢ PHCO_33691 s700_800 11.23 FS Mgmt Srvc Provider Patch 1 SMS Bundle
â ¢ PHCO_35063 s700_800 11.23 LVM commands patch
â ¢ PHCO_35048 s700_800 11.23 libsec cumulative patch
â ¢ PHCO_34811 s700_800 11.23 VxVM 4.1 Command Patch 02
â ¢ PHCO_35431 s700_800 11.23 VxFS 4.1 Command Cumulative patch 3
â ¢ PHCO_35465 s700_800 11.23 VERITAS VM Provider 4.1 Patch 02
â ¢ PHKL_31500 s700_800 11.23 Sept04 base patch
â ¢ PHKL_33025 s700_800 11.23 file system tunables cumulative patch
â ¢ PHKL_33566 s700_800 11.23 GLM Kernel cumulative patch 1 SMS Bundle
â ¢ PHKL_33620 s700_800 11.23 GMS Kernel cumulative patch 1 SMS Bundle
â ¢ PHKL_34094 s700_800 11.23 LVM Cumulative Patch
â ¢ PHKL_34213 s700_800 11.23 vPars CPU migr, cumulative shutdown patch
â ¢ PHKL_34475 s700_800 11.23 ODM Kernel cumulative patch 2 SMS Bundle
â ¢ PHKL_34741 s700_800 11.23 VxFEN Kernel cumulative patch 1 SMS Bundle
â ¢ PHKL_34812 s700_800 11.23 VxVM 4.1 Kernel Patch 02
â ¢ PHKL_35430 s700_800 11.23 VxFS 4.1 Kernel Cumulative patch 3
â ¢ PHKL_35229 s700_800 11.23 VM mmap(2), madvise(2) and msync(2) fix
â ¢ PHNE_33723 s700_800 11.23 LLT Command cumulative patch 1 SMS Bundle
â ¢ PHNE_35353 s700_800 11.23 LLT Kernel cumulative patch 2 SMS Bundle
â ¢ PHNE_34664 s700_800 11.23 GAB cumulative patch 2 SMS Bundle
â ¢ PHNE_35182 s700_800 11.23 cumulative ARPA Transport patch
â ¢ PHSS_35371 s700_800 11.23 Serviceguard A.11.17.00
â ¢ PHSS_34609 s700_800 11.23 OV EMANATE15.3 IA64 Consolidated Patch 4

Because this patch list is very critical, it would seem to be a good idea if these patches were included in the T2797BA bundle