Hi Ed,
the changes look fine to me.
Just want to mention that should svcadm/svccfg for whatever reason
provide output to stdout or stderr, it would appear within the calling
tty when invoked at line 9353 (stdout is ok/expected there), 9388 and 9397
Greets
Thorsten
Ed McKnight wrote:
> http://cr.opensolaris.org/~emk/CO-IPS-15/
>
> Note that the new functions are factored down pretty far to enable as
> much code sharing between the 'update' and 'complain' paths.
>
> thx, --emk
>
> Description:
> --------------
> The OpenSolaris default installation does have the property
> config/local_only for the SMF service rpc/bind to true.
>
> Sun Cluster does need that value to be false, because other nodes need
> to be ablte to communicate via rpc with each other.
>
> This is specifically true at installation time.
>
> Attempt to use scinstall on the second node to add the node to the
> cluster does fail by saying "Attempting to contact "sponsorhostname" at
> this time.", which is not giving the hint to look for the rpc/bind setup
> on the sponsor node.
>
> scinstall should really check for config/local_only to be false,
> otherwise either error out and advise the user to set it to false, or
> give the user the option to set it to false and continue the installation.
>
> Comments:
> ---------
> From email:
>
> "...Note that for centralized install the user runs scinstall only on
> one node. We probably can safely assume that if local node has this bad
> setting that other nodes will, too. The message should say to fix the
> setting on all nodes, then rerun scinstall. Small window for problem if
> local node is already OK, for some reason, but remote nodes are not..."
>
> Evaluation:
> ------------
> ...Consensus is that rpc must be set properly for cluster communication
> so it's OK to force the value to 'false' when that will still enable the
> user to continue. In the case of configure just first node we can force
> it because subsequent nodes will be installed via addnode, which again
> is a single node operation where we can forse the setting.
>
> For centralized install we cannot force the setting on all nodes because
> rpc must be correctly configured in order to reach out to other nodes.
> In this case we check local node (before attempting other remote node
> checks) and if the value is wrong, issue a complaint instructing the
> admin to execute the given commands on each node, then exit.
>
> noninteractive_centralized_install() is invoked only (indirectly) by
> 'cluster create -f' and must be treated like interactive centralized
> install.
>
> -- END --
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