[Info-vax] removing a node completely

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <kekl31$73u$1 at pcls6.std.com>, moroney at world.std.spaamtrap.com
(Michael Moroney) writes: 

> It sounds like at least one node in the cluster remembers the old
> SCSNODE/SCSSYSTEMID pair.  It will not let a node with the same 
> SCSSYSTEMID as the old node enter with a different name (SCSNODE).

Yes.

> Your choices are either:
> 
> 1) Reboot the node(s) that remember the old SCSNODE/SCSSYSTEMID pair.
>    $ SHOW CLUSTER on each node will find the offender.

I thought this was remembered in the entire cluster so to speak.  In any 
case, SHOW CLUSTER doesn't show the node in question on any node.

> 2) Change the SCSNODE/SCSSYSTEMID pair to a new pair which _none_ of the
>    current cluster members have seen.

I'll do either this or a cluster reboot (i.e. all at once, not a rolling 
reboot).