Questions about AutoFS problem.

[Brian Ruisi]

Hi everyone, I'm having an issue with AUTOFS and I hope someone can help. I build HPUX systems in different configurations, both High Availability and Non-High Availability. They have different instruction sets for the different builds. I am installing HPUX 11iV2 with May 2005 media.

The instructions that I am using for my HA cluster system with two nodes has always had me manually setup the auto_master file to point to an auto.xxx file. In the auto.xxx file I put in something like "/xxx -soft,proto=udp server:/xxx" The directory being mounted is rolled bewtween the two nodes and both nodes NFS mount it through a package name (server) to access the data.

I have never had to go into Sam and export the directory that is being mounted. It has worked on all previous builds before, untill using 11iv2 May 2005. I now set

"AUTOFS=1"
"AUTOMOUNTD_OPTIONS="-L"

in the nfsconf file. Has there been a change that I don't know about? I am getting no write access into the mounted directory, even though the directory being mounted to has full rights.

If I go into SAM and export the directory it starts working, but I never had to that before in an HA cluster before. Is there a change to the AUTOFS system? It would seem that you need to export the directory, but that doesn't explain how it worked until now....

Please any help would be appriciated.

Brian

[RAC_1]

Before you start it in SAM, sebd usr2 signal to automuntd and check log file. (/var/adm/automount.log)

Now try cd to dir and check log file.

[Brian Ruisi]

Does the MC Serviceguard software for the cluster take care of the exporting for the directories that are being mounted with the package? I am using a new version of MC ServiceGuard 11.16 also. Maybe the ServiceGuard software took care of the exports?

I also notice that when the nfs.server and nfs.client is starting up, they are complaining that there are no exports, which would seem to validate the problem is that the filesystems aren't exported, but is that supposed to be a function in the Serviceguard?

Thanks for any info.....