• Novell NetWare Cluster Services auf HP Netservern - hier gibt es die Informationen von HP zu diesem Thema. (Beispielkonfigurationen, zertifizerte Geräte und mehr…)

• Eine Anleitung fürs Setup eines DHCP-Servers mit fail-over auf dem Cluster gibt es in TID 10051521
   
• NetWare Cluster Services 1.01 Support Pack 3   (TID 2961562) Alle Infos zum SP3 des Novell Clusters
• The Gory details of Heartbeats, Split Brains and Poison Pills (TID 10053882)
   
• Rules For Operating a NetWare Cluster Services SAN before NWCS 1.01 SP2 (TID 10057924) Die Regeln für den Betrieb eines Clusterservers vor SP2
   
• How to update a new cluster node to CS1SP2 (TID 10064205)
   
• How do I change the IP addresses of an existing cluster? (TID 10058744)
   
• Bindery-Connections zu Clustervolumes sind möglich mit "The Cluster Virtual Server Bindery (CVSBIND) utility". Installation siehe TID 2957434 
   

Die Clients sollten so konfiguriert sein, das mindestens 2 verschiedene DNS-Server eingetragen sind. So ist bei Ausfall eines DNS-Servers die Namensauflösung über den 2. möglich.

Einzige Ausnahme bildet der Primary-Server einer DNS-Zone. Er ist derjenige, auf dem Änderungen an den DNS-Records einer Domain eingepflegt werden. Soll der Primary-DNS-Server auf einem Novell-Cluster installiert werden, ist wie folgt vorzugehen: (ohne Änderung übernommen aus einem Technical Training Dokument zu Novells Cluster Service)

• Cluster Enabling DNS
  
  DNS has its own built in fault tolerance and failover. Unlike DHCP where only 1 server can handle the DHCP requests, DNS can have multiple servers handling requests and the servers and workstations can be configured so that different DNS servers reply to the request, thus providing fault tolerance.
  
  However, in DNS there can exist only 1 primary DNS server. This primary DNS server is responsible for the authoritative database of host names and IP address information for the entire domain. This Primary DNS server can be configured in Cluster Services to provide fault tolerance.
   
• Prerequisites:
  
  All the nodes that will host the DNS server (NAMED.NLM) must have DNS/DHCP installed Perform the following steps:
   
  • Creating a virtual NCP server as the host
    • Create a pool DNSPOOL (100 Mb).
    • Create a volume DNSVOL.
    • Cluster Enable DNSVOL and change the Virtual NCP SERVER name to DNSSERVER and assign an IP address of 10.1.1.50 for the resource.
      
      Note1: It is important to rename the virtual server and get rid of the “_” character and some DNS servers do not understand this character.
      
      Note2: This resource will be used as a dummy resource and the NAMED.NLM will be launched from the load script. The resource provides the DNS server host and the IP Address for the DNS server.
       
    • Online the Resource.
  • Configure the DNS Server
    • Start the Browser and using NetWare Web Manager (https://10.1.1.10:2200), select the iManager for node NCS1 and login to the iManger.
    • Expand the DNS Management on the left pane by clicking on the “+”
    • Click on the “DNS Server management”
    • Select Create Server and click OK.
    • Using the magnifying glass browse to DNSSERVER object and select this as the NCP server.
    • Enter DNSSERVER as the host name and EDU.NOVELL.COM as the domain name and click Create
    • Confirm the creation of the DNS server object (DNS_DNSSERVER) and click OK.
  • Create a new Zone
    • Click on the “Zone Management”
    • Select Create zone and click OK
    • Select and Supply the following information
      • Create New Zone
      • Context=NCS
      • Zone Domain name = Edu.Novell.COM
      • Zone type = Primary
      • Assigned Authoritative Zone Server = DNS_DNSSERVER.NCS
    • Click Create and confirm creation by clicking OK
  • Create an IN-ADDR-ARPA zone
    • Click on the “Zone Management”
    • Select Create zone and click OK
    • Select and Supply the following information
      • Zone type = Create IN-ADDR ARPA
      • Context=NCS
      • Zone Domain Name=10.1.1.0
      • Zone type=Primary
      • Assigned Authoritative Zone Server = DNS_DNSSERVER.NCS
  • Create Resource Record
    • Click on “Resource Record Management”
    • Select Create Resource Record and click OK
    • Using the drop down select Edu.Novell.COM as the domain name and click Create
    • On the subsequent screen, enter DNSSERVER as the Specified Host Name
    • Enter 10.1.1.50 as the IP address and click Create
    • Confirm the creation by clicking OK
    • Click Done
  • Modify the server object attributes

    Using ConsoleOne, add the following attribute to each physical server object

    • Right click the Server object, NCS1 and select properties
    • Select the “other” tab
    • Click Add
    • Select DNIP:DNS Server Reference attribute and click OK
    • Using the browse icon, browse and select the DNS_DNSSERVER object. Click OK
    • Click Apply and then OK
    • Repeat steps 1 to 6 for node NCS2.
  • Update the cluster volume resource to load and unload NAMED.NLM
    • Add NAMED at the end of the load script
    • Add UNLOAD NAMED as the top of the unload script
    • Offline the resource and online it again
  • Test the DNS server
    • Configure the workstation so that it DNS IP address points to the 10.1.1.50.
    • Ping the DNS server
    • PING DNSSERVER.EDU.NOVELL.COM and make sure it resolves to IP address 10.1.1.50
    •  Migrate the resource and test again
       

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