Shiva, Thank you, I had forgotten about maintenance mode, which would be appropriate choice for what you are planning. With maintenance mode, you also temporarily disable the node from contributing to the quorum count while you are working on it. The procedure to put a node into maintenance mode is also in the Sun Cluster System Administration Guide:
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/820-4679/cacgfcgh?l=en&a=view Lisa Shepherd Sun Cluster Technical Publications "We're the M in RTFM" ShivaPrasad Duddeda wrote: > Hi Lisa, > Thanks for the information, what is the difference between non-cluster > mode and maintenance mode. Yes, we want to take the resources off the > 3-nodes and mark them off the cluster for out applications > installation and rejoin the cluster. > > I am attaching the cluster status of our 4-node cluster. Hopefully > this would give the needed information about our cluster. > > Thank you, > /Shiva > > > On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Lisa Shepherd <Lisa.Shepherd at sun.com > <mailto:Lisa.Shepherd at sun.com>> wrote: > > Shiva, > > It sounds like you need the procedure for booting a node into > noncluster mode, which includes first switching device group sand > resource groups off the node: > > http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/820-4679/cegceggh?a=view > > As an example, if you wanted to put a SPARC cluster node named > "apple" into noncluster mode, you would run these commands: > > apple# *clnode evacuate apple* > apple# *shutdown -g0 -y* > ok *boot -x > *... > Not booting as part of cluster > ... > > When you are done with your testing, issue a standard reboot > command (reboot, init 6) to bring the node back into the cluster, > and switch any device groups and resource groups back to the node > as desired. > > Hope this is what you were looking for. > > Lisa Shepherd > Sun Cluster Technical Publications > "We're the M in RTFM" > > > > > ShivaD wrote: > > Hi Lucia, > I have a question regarding Sun Cluster. > > We want to make 3 nodes of 4 -node sun cluster to donot > participate in cluster membership and donot access > DG's/resources, so that we can reinstall our customized > applications on these 3 nodes and test them separately and > rejoin the cluster. > Note: All our applications are installed locally on each server. > > Could you please suggest a way to do this. > > Thanks, > /Shiva > > >
