............................Contents


Preface	xv
1. Introduction	1-1
....1.1 Features Provided	1-1
....1.2 Data Protection Provided	1-2
....1.3 Supported Hardware	1-2
....1.4 Getting Help	1-3
....1.5 Glossary	1-3
2. Planning and Installation Overview	2-1
....2.1 Planning Overview	2-1
....2.2 Functional Diagram	2-2
....2.3 Installation Procedure Overview	2-6
3. Installation Planning	3-1
....3.1 Planning Your Configuration	3-1
......3.1.1 Network Configuration	3-3
......3.1.2 Physical and Logical Host Names	3-8


......3.1.3 Data Services	3-9
......3.1.4 Planning Your Disk Requirements	3-9
......3.1.5 Mirroring	3-10
......3.1.6 Trans Devices	3-10
......3.1.7 Hot Spares	3-11
......3.1.8 Disk Space Growth	3-11
......3.1.9 Total Storage Requirement	3-12
......3.1.10 Size and Number of Disk Drives	3-12
......3.1.11 Number of SPARCstorage Arrays	3-13
......3.1.12 Size of Servers	3-13
......3.1.13 Power Sources and Location for Configurations	3-15
......3.1.14 Type of Configuration	3-17
......3.1.15 Data on Local Disks	3-17
......3.1.16 Planning Your Multi-host File System Hierarchy	3-18
......3.1.17 File System Size and Disk Layout	3-19
......3.1.18 Size of Disksets	3-19
......3.1.19 Metadevice Naming and Creation	3-21
......3.1.20 Migrating Existing Data	3-23
......3.1.21 Backing Up Multi-host Data	3-23
....3.2 Configuration Rules That Improve Reliability	3-23
....3.3 Configuration Restrictions	3-26
4. Hardware Installation Information	4-1
....4.1 SPARCcluster High Availability Hardware Installation .	4-1
....4.2 SPARCstation 4 Installation	4-2


....4.3 SPARCcenter 2000 Installation	4-2
....4.4 SPARCserver 1000 Installation	4-3
....4.5 SPARCstorage Arrays Installation	4-3
....4.6 Terminal Concentrator Installation	4-4
5. Solaris 2.4 Installation	5-1
....5.1 Installation Rules	5-1
....5.2 Selecting the Size of the Root Slice	5-2
....5.3 Sizing File Systems for Install	5-6
........· How to Install Solaris on the Administration
...........Workstation	5-7
........· How to Install the Terminal Concentrator	5-8
........· How to Install Solaris on the Solstice HA Servers .	5-10
6. Installing the Packages and Patches	6-1
....6.1 Packages to Be Installed	6-1
........· How to Add the Required Packages and Patches	6-2
....6.2 Path Requirements	6-30
....6.3 Viewing AnswerBook Online Documentation	6-31
7. Setting Up Name Services
...and Networks	7-1
....7.1 Overview of Tasks	7-1
....7.2 Updates To Name Service Entries	7-3
....7.3 Automatic Changes to `/etc/nsswitch.conf`	7-3
....7.4 Updates to `/etc` Files	7-5
....7.5 Setting Up Private Networks	7-7
....7.6 Setting Up `/.rhosts` Files	7-8


....7.7 Editing `/etc/syslog.conf`	7-8
8. Creating the Configuration	8-1
....8.1 Overview of Tasks	8-1
....8.2 Preparing to Run `hasetup`	8-2
........· How to Run `hasetup`	8-3
9. Metadevice Creation on Local and Multi-host Disks	9-1
....9.1 Overview of Tasks	9-1
....9.2 Metadevice Considerations	9-2
......9.2.1 Diversity of the Configuration	9-2
......9.2.2 Availability of the Configuration	9-3
......9.2.3 Performance Issues	9-5
......9.2.4 Takeover and Metadevice State Database Issues	9-6
......9.2.5 Managing the Metadevice Name Space	9-6
....9.3 Creation of Metadevices on Multi-host Disks	9-12
........· How to Create Metadevices Using `metatool`	9-12
........· How to Create Metadevices Using the `md.tab` File	9-13
....9.4 Logging File Systems on the Local Disk	9-13
....9.5 Setting Up Slices on Multi-host Disks	9-14
....9.6 Setting Up Metadevices for HA-ORACLE	9-14
....9.7 Setting Up Metadevices for HA-NFS	9-14
....9.8 Setting Up Hot Spares	9-14
10. Setting Up Data Service Classes	10-1
...10.1 Overview of Tasks	10-1
...10.2 Setting Up HA-ORACLE	10-2


........· How to Prepare Solstice HA Servers for ORACLE
...........Installation	10-2
......10.2.1 Creating an ORACLE Database and Setting Up
...........HA-ORACLE	10-5
........· How to Prepare the Logical Hosts for ORACLE
...........Databases	10-5
........· How to Create an ORACLE Database and Set Up
...........HA-ORACLE	10-6
......10.2.2 HA-ORACLE Client Set Up	10-10
...10.3 Setting Up HA-NFS	10-10
........· How to Share HA-NFS File Systems	10-11
........· How to Set Up a Multi-host UFS File System	10-13
...10.4 Bringing the Solstice HA Servers On Line	10-16
11. Verification and Validation	11-1
...11.1 Overview of Tasks	11-1
...11.2 Running the `hacheck` Command	11-2
...11.3 Running the `haswitch` Command	11-2
...11.4 Performing Physical and Manual Tests	11-3
...11.5 Performing the Fault Detection Test	11-4
...11.6 Verify HA-ORACLE Setup	11-4
...11.7 Verify SPARCstorage Array Firmware	11-4
...11.8 Power Sequence Testing a SPARCcluster 1000	11-5
...11.9 Power Sequence Testing a SPARCcluster 2000	11-6
A. Error Messages	A-1
...A.1 `hacheck` Error Messages	A-1
...A.2 `hasetup` Error Messages	A-9


B. Terminal Concentrator Security	B-1
....B.1 Security Concepts	B-1
....B.2 Using Security	B-2
......B.2.1 Enabling Security	B-3
......B.2.2 Setting Up Host-based Security	B-3
......B.2.3 Local Virtual CLI Password	B-5
......B.2.4 Concentrator Administrative Password	B-6
....B.3 Setting Port Security	B-7
....B.4 Port Server and CLI Security	B-8
....B.5 Security on Virtual CLI Connections	B-9
....B.6 PPP Security	B-10
....B.7 Host-based Security	B-10
......B.7.1 Defining a Security Server	B-11
......B.7.2 Creating the `acp_dialup` File	B-12
......B.7.3 Creating User Password Files	B-13
......B.7.4 Setting Up Connection Security	B-14
......B.7.5 Creating the ACP Encryption Keys File	B-16
......B.7.6 Logging Security Events	B-18
......B.7.7 Modifying the Supplied Security Application	B-18
....B.8 Securing the Network	B-21
......B.8.1 The Concentrator Administrative Password	B-22
......B.8.2 Protecting Ports from Unauthorized Access	B-22
......B.8.3 Protecting the Superuser CLI	B-22
......B.8.4 Preventing Unauthorized Access to `na`	B-23


...Index	I-1