Compaq Parallel Database Cluster Model PDC/O1000 for Oracle8i and Windows 2000 Administrator Guide

Installation and Configuration 5-23

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If you are using an Ethernet cluster interconnect, a cluster interconnect name

and IP address were assigned to each cluster node. Ping the Ethernet cluster

interconnect name of every node in the cluster.

When using the client LAN name with the ping command, the IP address

displayed by the ping utility should be the client LAN IP address. When using

an Ethernet cluster interconnect name, the IP address displayed by the ping

utility should be an Ethernet cluster interconnect address. If the ping utility

does not return the expected IP addresses, check the entries in the hosts and

lmhosts files at %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc.

For example, the command ping node1 should return the following type of

information.

Pinging node1.loc1.yoursite.com [127.0.0.1] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=128

Mounting Remote Drives and Verifying

Administrator Privileges

Because the OUI installs and configures OSDs on the other nodes in the

cluster from the installing machine, you must first mount a drive on all remote

nodes in the cluster. Remote nodes are those nodes other than the node on

which the OUI is running (the installing machine).

The drive you mount should be the drive the OUI will write to, and it must be

the same drive on all cluster nodes. There should be at least five megabytes of

space on the remote drives.

The net use command can be used to mount drives on remote nodes. The user

running the net use command must have administrator privileges. Therefore,

running the net use command not only mounts drives on remote nodes but

also verifies the administrator privileges of the installer.

Administrator privileges are required for most installation tasks, such as

installing device drivers and changing registry entries. To install the OSDs,

you must have administrator privileges on each node from the installing

machine.