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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Hi, Rick</SPAN></FONT></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">I am resending my message, as it was blocked because it was bigger than the list's limit of 40KB.</SPAN></FONT></DIV></DIV>
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<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN lang=EN-CA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">I will give you the big lines, here, and if you need more help, please come back to me about it.</SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN lang=EN-CA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">First, you need to have a first node that you will make boot from the locally attached system boot disk. Modify the systartup_v5.com or systartup_vms.com so that applications are not started until all disks are available, which you will have after the second node will boot. My first node is called extra</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN lang=EN-CA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">And I tailored a extra.ini to specify the mac address and disks (maximum 16 disks)</SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN lang=EN-CA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">For the second node, (mine is called REGIE) you have to specify the exact mac address from one of your physical satellite node in it's REGIE.ini file.</SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN lang=EN-CA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">At the VMS level on your boot node, you then need to specify the parameters to support booting the satellite via network from the served MSCP bootdisk. (My bootdisk VMS label is XPL0)</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN lang=EN-CA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">This is defined on EXTRA in the Network Control Protocol utiliy (on my VMS 5.5-2 setup...) </SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN lang=EN-CA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Those are the characteristics needed to be specified:</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN lang=EN-CA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">$ mcr ncp</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN lang=EN-CA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">NCP>show node regie chara</SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN lang=EN-CA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Node Volatile Characteristics as of 12-JAN-2008 08:43:20</SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN lang=EN-CA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Remote node = 1.18 (REGIE)</SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN lang=EN-CA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Hardware address = AA-00-04-00-12-04</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN lang=EN-CA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Tertiary loader = SYS$SYSTEM:TERTIARY_VMB.EXE</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN lang=EN-CA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Load Assist Agent = SYS$SHARE:NISCS_LAA.EXE</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN lang=EN-CA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Load Assist Parameter = DISK$XPL0:<SYS2.></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN lang=EN-CA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">The two things that are variable for every satellite nodes are the Hardware address (mac address of the node) and the Load Assist Parameter which is the system specific booting and config files for the node.</SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN lang=EN-CA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Once defined, you then boot your satellite by >>>B XQA0</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN lang=EN-CA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">At the console prompt. You then have a cluster with 2 nodes...</SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><SPAN lang=EN-CA style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">I will send the other part in the next message.</SPAN></FONT></P></DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>