Friday, September 26, 2008

How to add a new machine into Nim

Prequiest are
The disk should not be mirrored.
You should must be knowing the IP address of the enthernet port of the server which u will be giving to the server.
We need to make one Master and others as there Clients .
Required to set the ip address of the master server and the ulimits . Step that needs to be followed at the Master end are as follows :
Step 1) Insert cd1 of the os base cd and run nim_master_setup command .
It will take time and automaically configure the required setup , it will rake nearly 5-10 mins to complete .
Step 2) Type vi /etc/host ......in this add the entire of your client machines .
ie . you need u need to give ip address and the host name .
Step 3) Once this is done then run smitty nim command
A: Select Perform Nim Administration Task .
(1) Manage Machine . * define Machine ..........in this u will need to give the hostname of ur client machine . (then press esc+3)
(2) Manage Network Install Resource Allocation .
* Allocate Network Install Resources ..........in this it will show u host name of master and clients , need to select client . .............once u have selected client machine it will show u the list of the thigs that will be install , need to select all the things (3) Perform Operations on Machine . * Select
This complete all the settings that needs to be do on the Master Server .
Step that needs to be followed at the Client end are as follows :
Step 1) Boot the client server in SMS menu select the 2 option ie Remote IPL
Step 2) Give ip address , subnet mask , host name of the client machine.
Step 3) Make sure that protocal used is normal instead of IEEE802.1 .
Step 4) The spanning tree should be not seleceted ie it should be off .
Step 5) It will give u option to test ur ping select that and check it the output will be ping sucessfull .
Step 6) Press X and logout of the SMS menu the installation will start and it will take nearly 15-20 for the installation to be complete .
This complete all the settings that needs to be do on the Client Server .
And this complete NIM installation .

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