Veritas Storage Foundation 5.1 SP1 for Oracle RAC Administrator"s Guide (5900-1512, April 2011)

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Run the vxfenswap utility from one of the nodes of the cluster.
The vxfenswap utility requires secure ssh connection to all the cluster nodes.
Use -n to use rsh instead of default ssh.
For example:
# vxfenswap [-n]
The command returns:
VERITAS vxfenswap version <version> <platform>
The logfile generated for vxfenswap is
/var/VRTSvcs/log/vxfen/vxfenswap.log.
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Please Wait...
VXFEN vxfenconfig NOTICE Driver will use customized fencing
- mechanism cps
Validation of coordination points change has succeeded on
all nodes.
You may commit the changes now.
WARNING: This may cause the whole cluster to panic
if a node leaves membership before the change is complete.
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You are then prompted to commit the change. Enter y for yes.
The command returns a confirmation of successful coordination point
replacement.
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Confirm the successful execution of the vxfenswap utility. If CP agent is
configured, it should report ONLINE as it succeeds to find the registrations
on coordination points. The registrations on the CP server and coordinator
disks can be viewed using the cpsadm and vxfenadm utilities respectively.
Note that a running online coordination point refreshment operation can be
canceled at any time using the command:
# vxfenswap -a cancel
Replacing coordination points for server-based fencing in an online
cluster
Use the following procedure to perform a planned replacement of customized
coordination points (CP servers or SCSI-3 disks) without incurring application
downtime on an online SF Oracle RAC cluster.
143Administering SF Oracle RAC and its components
Administering the CP server