[Info-vax] CLUSTER_AUTHORIZE.DAT

[Bob Koehler]

In article <f8531747-ca7f-45c1-a58f-ee2064187a23 at googlegroups.com>, Richard B <richard.brock57 at gmail.com> writes:
> Hello again, it's me!
> 
> I recently changed the cluster password, via SYSMAN CONFIG SET command, as I had forgotten the password I set during the initial cluster set up back in the heady days of 2013!
> 
> Anyway, after doing so VMS gently reminded me that the cluster "may" have to be rebooted.
> 
> I just tried adding a third node into the existing 2-node cluster but no dice.
> All SYSGEN parameters on the third node are fine.  Which leads me to believe that the existing cluster doesn't recognize the new password I entered when I ran cluster_config on the new, third node.
> 
> So my question is this:  I guess the present cluster does not read cluster_authorize.dat when, or as, needed. Is it loaded into RAM, perhaps, during boot?  Just curious.

   I have always just followed the expedient of copying
   cluster_authorize.dat, and make sure it ends up in sys$common, not
   sys$speccific.