[Info-vax] SET HOST/LAT

[Kari Uusimäki]

On 1.11.2010 0:17, Phillip Helbig---undress to reply wrote:
> In article<iakmeh$ov2$1 at ns.felk.cvut.cz>, smithfarm
> <presnypreklad at gmail.com>  writes:
>
>> Geez, that was a dumb mistake. Yes, the switch was in the wrong
>> position. I now see both services and can SET HOST/LAT to the other host.
>
> Great!
>
>> Thanks for the assistance. Who knows how long it would have taken me to
>> discover that switch.
>>
>> Now it's time to tackle the next two tasks:
>> (1) get OVMS 8.4 installed on the rx2600
>
> Should be a matter of just popping in the CD, booting from it, and
> selecting the installation.  I hear that the Itanium "console" is not as
> straightforward as that of the VAX, though.
>
>> (2) set up the 2-node cluster between the VAXes.
>
> First, set up the VAX as a one-node cluster.  Something like this in
> MODPARAMS.DAT:
>
> ! cluster_config
> VOTES=1
> EXPECTED_VOTES=1
> DISK_QUORUM=""
> NISCS_LOAD_PEA0=1
> VAXCLUSTER=2
> MSCP_LOAD=1
> MSCP_SERVE_ALL=1
> TMSCP_LOAD=1
> TMSCP_SERVE_ALL=1
> INTERCONNECT="NI"
> BOOTNODE="Y"
>
> then AUTOGEN then REBOOT.
>
> Then $ @ SYS$MANAGER:CLUSTER_CONFIG_LAN.COM
>
> and set up a satellite with 0 votes then
>
>     >>>  SET BOOT EZA0
>
> at the VAX console.
>
> It's been so long since I have done it (cluster configuration for me has
> been "do it and then don't worry about it); it might be that the above
> entries in MODPARAMS.DAT can also be done via
> SYS$MANAGER:CLUSTER_CONFIG_LAN.COM.  In any case, putting them in by
> hand should work since I can't imagine anywhere else
> SYS$MANAGER:CLUSTER_CONFIG_LAN.COM could put anything.
>
> How much memory does the VAX have?
>

One important point here:
I hope you remember that every platform (VAX/Alpha/IA64) needs its own 
system disk. You can never boot two different platforms from the same 
system disk.


Kari