[Info-vax] CLUSTER_AUTHORIZE.DAT

[Michael Moroney]

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.

Do a $ SHOW ERROR.

Does device PEA0: have a bazillion errors? If so, the old nodes are using the old
password and the new node (trying to) use the new password, and that won't work.
The cluster password is not dynamic.