[Info-vax] CLUSTER_AUTHORIZE.DAT

[Richard B]

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.