Novell Cluster Services

Installation and Upgrade Issues

The following scenarios require you to create a new CD image in order to install or upgrade Novell^® Cluster Services^TM:

• If you installed a brand new NetWare^® 6 Support Pack 1 cluster on existing NetWare 6 servers that were upgraded to NetWare 6 Support Pack 1

  The CD image provides all the fixes in the installation, which are otherwise present only if you run the cluster installation from the NetWare 6 CD via Deployment Manager.

• If you want to do a one-step upgrade from NetWare 5.1 to NetWare 6 Support Pack 1 without having to go to NetWare 6.0 first and then upgrade from NetWare 6 to NetWare 6 Support Pack 1

  The CD image prevents you from having to do a two-step NetWare 5.1 to NetWare 6 Support Pack 1 upgrade.

Creating a New CD Image

Complete the following steps to create a new CD image that will fix the problems described in the above scenarios.

1. Copy the NetWare 6 CD image to a directory on a server.

2. Copy the CLUSTER.ZIP file from the NI\ZIP directory at the root of the NetWare 6 Support Pack 1 image to the NI\ZIP directory at the root of the NetWare 6 CD image on your server.

3. Copy the PRODUCTS\NCS directory from the root of the NetWare 6 Support Pack 1 image over the PRODUCTS\NCS directory at the root of the NetWare 6 CD image on your server.

4. Run the Cluster Services installation via NWDEPLOY.EXE (Deployment Manager) from the new image you just created.

NWDEPLOY Authentication Problems

NWDEPLOY might be unable to authenticate to a new node when you attempt to add that node to an existing cluster. This problem occurs more frequently when either SLP or DNS isn't configured properly on servers or clients.

This problem can be resolved by doing any of the following:

• Before running NWDEPLOY, manually map a drive from your client to volume SYS: on the new node.
• Add the server name and IP address of the new node to DNS.
• Add the server name and IP address of the new node to the Windows Hosts file on the client machine where you will run NWDEPLOY.
• Configure SLPDA to discover the server name of the new node.