Administrator Guide

You can also track this process in the Event Viewer following a successful Subscriber addition, as shown in
Figure 130.
Figure 130 Tracking the Add Node Process in the Event Viewer
Using the CLIto Create a Subscriber Node
You can make a node a Subscriber via the command line interface.
You can perform multiple cluster-related administrative functions from the CLI. The CLI provides additional
functionality that cannot be accomplished from the user interface.
To use the CLI to make a node a Subscriber in the cluster:
1. Log in as the appadmin user to the W-ClearPass node using SSH client software (such as PuTTY).
2. Issue the following command:
cluster make-subscriber –I [publisher IP address]
Figure 131 Description of the cluster make-subscriber command
After you enter the IPaddress of the Publisher, you will see the following warning message:
Figure 132 Subscriber Warning Message
3. To confirm that you want to continue, enter y.
4. Enter the cluster (appadmin) password for the Publisher.
The process to downgrade the node to a Subscriber begins.
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