[Info-vax] Clustering on VMS 4.7

[H Vlems]

On 16 apr, 21:50, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilber... at comcast.net> wrote:
> Robert Jarratt wrote:
> > "H Vlems" <hvl... at freenet.de> wrote in message
> >news:d5f99808-85f8-4722-9a19-def78a5a1b97 at o11g2000yql.googlegroups.com...
> >> On 16 apr, 19:14, "Robert Jarratt" <nos... at nosp.am> wrote:
> >>> I have set up a VMS 4.7 machine on SIMH (using the 3900 emulation) but I
> >>> can't see how to set up clustering. The only cluster-related
> >>> procedures I
> >>> have in SYS$MANAGER are MAKEROOT.COM, BOOT_CONFIG.COM and
> >>> SATELLITE_CONFIG.COM. They all tell me "This system disk is not set
> >>> up as a
> >>> cluster system disk." I cannot see how to get started to make the system
> >>> disk a cluster system disk, can anyone tell me what the first step is?
>
> >>> NB For those of you following my MicroVAX II saga, while I wait to
> >>> see if I
> >>> can get a replacement CPU and memory, I want to get 4.7 going on my
> >>> simulated 3900 so that I am 100% sure that the DEQNA is supported
> >>> when I try
> >>> to net boot off it.
>
> >>> Thanks
>
> >>> Rob
>
> >> When you installed 4.7, did the installation procedure prompt you with
> >> the question whether the system would be part of a cluster?
> >> Later VMS versions did do that and since V5.something, even if you
> >> answered NO, the system may be converted afterwards as a
> >> clustermember.
> >> But IIRC this was not so easy in V4.7 and earlier releases. It had to
> >> do with directory backlinks, I'm guessing here.... Anyway, once the
> >> question was answered, you were stuck with the result or reinstall.
> >> Hans
>
> > No it did not ask me. I saw these prompts when installing 5.4, but I
> > need to install something prior to 5.4 and the next latest I have is
> > 4.7. I will take a look at cluster_config.com on 5.4 to see if that
> > offers some clues.
>
> Note that anything below V5.5-2 is not going to support Y2K!  I don't
> think anything really horrible happens but V5.5.2 is the oldest VMS
> version that you can get Y2K support for.- Tekst uit oorspronkelijk bericht niet weergeven -
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I don't think he'll be running mission cirtical applications on a
simulated 11/780 running V4.7 <G>
Other than that, V4.6 displays current date and time pretty well:

$ sh ti
  16-APR-2009 22:25:05
$ sh sys
VAX/VMS V4.6  on node KALIUM 16-APR-2009 22:26:20.94   Uptime    0
00:10:48
  Pid    Process Name    State  Pri      I/O       CPU       Page flts
Ph.Mem
00000100 NULL            COM      0        0   0 00:10:27.26
0      0
00000101 SWAPPER         HIB     16        0   0 00:00:00.11
0      0
00000104 ERRFMT          HIB      8       21   0 00:00:00.06
73    139
00000105 OPCOM           LEF      8       25   0 00:00:00.09
178     93
00000106 JOB_CONTROL     HIB      9       20   0 00:00:00.07
86    254
00000107 SYSTEM          CUR      4     2705   0 00:00:11.44
5181    309
00000108 NETACP          HIB     10       29   0 00:00:00.24
292    227
00000109 EVL             HIB      6       38   0 00:00:00.27
236    331  N
0000010A REMACP          HIB      8       14   0 00:00:00.06
78     90
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