[Linux-HA] Linux mail cluster with IBM serveraid 4Lx's in xseries 232's

[dragon]

I finaly figured out what was keeping the ipssend comand and everything 
from working properly (helps to read the script files) the linux drivers 
dont support raid 5 in a failover situation...rebuilt it as a raid 1E 
and it works mostly perfectly...(need to work on a non crytical synch 
bug with the ServeRAID script that may be a user error)

Drag0n

dragon wrote:

> Alan Robertson wrote:
>
>> dragon wrote:
>>
>>> I am trying to build a HA Mail cluster and was trying to follow the 
>>> instructions i found in the archives. (http://www.softup.com.co/ha/ 
>>> ). have encountered some issues that I need some help on.
>>
>>
>>
>> We're working on an updated version of that documenation.  But, I'm 
>> pretty sure it's more-or-less right.
>>
> If I can help in any way, please let me know.
>
>>> First, lets describe the situation
>>> 2 ibm xSeries 232's
>>>    each with 2 serveraid 4Lx's (single channel, one for OS, one for 
>>> shared bus,     each on different PCI Bus.)
>>>    OS 2 18GB drive mirrored
>>>    2 Nic cards (onboard intel and added 3com)
>>> 1 EXP300
>>>    Shared 6 36GB drives in raid5, 1 partition
>>>
>>> OS Slackware 9.1 linux  (have tried both the 2.6.4 and the 2.4.25 
>>> kernel with the IBM cd version 6.11 and 6.10)
>>>
>>> When I boot from the cd's I am able to set everything up and 
>>> configure the shared groups (i was unable to see the merge group on 
>>> the second system on cd version 6.10, but that was corrected on 
>>> version 6.11) but am unable to select fail from active to passive 
>>> (not sure if this is an issue, or just a bug in the cd's). I have 
>>> installed the OS and the RaidManager and it runs, I installed the 
>>> ipssend from the cd as i was unable to find the copy at 
>>> http://www.linux-ha.org/download/
>>
>>
>>
>> I got rid of that from the web site because a working version is now 
>> on the CD, and you should use the newer one that comes on the CD.
>>
> Ok, thats what i have been using. (i have made sure that i use the 
> correct version that matches the driver/bios version.)
>
>>> It will communicate with the controller but the synch command on the 
>>> second system will not work.
>>
>>
>>
>> What do you mean "will not work"?  Did you run the ipssend command by 
>> hand?  Did you get any error messages from the logs?
>>
>
>  
>
>>
> Well, according to the instructions, i need to validate through the 
> manager, but if that is something that needs to be ignored, then I will.
> ok, so i need to start on the heatbeat setup? i was hoping to get 
> everything tested before diving into that.
>
>
> Dustin
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