NetLS - Planar Board Swapping Procedure

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This document describes the procedure to follow before swapping the planar board on a machine that is running NetLS. It also describes what to do if you have already swapped the board.

If you have swapped the board without following the procedure, you may find that the netls daemon, dce, hacmp, and rlm will not run.

If you have not yet swapped the planar board, contact your AIX support center before following the procedure below.

Before Swapping the Planar Board

Before swapping out planar boards on machines that have NetLS running, perform the following steps:

1. Shutdown the NetLS daemons (in this order):

    
      stopsrc -s netlsd 
      stopsrc -s glbd 
      stopsrc -s llbd 
   

2. Comment out the lines in /etc/rc.ncs for starting up the ncs daemons:

    
      #Uncomment the following line to start the Local Location Broker 
      #startsrc -s llbd 
      #Uncomment the following line to start the Global Location Broker 
      #startsrc -s glbd 
   

Recovery Procedure if the Planar is Already Swapped

If the planar has already been swapped on a machine running NetLS without the above procedure, do the following to recover:

1. If the following daemons are running (you can check with lssrc -a), shut them down in this order:

    
      stopsrc -s netlsd 
      stopsrc -s glbd 
      stopsrc -s llbd 
   

2. Remove these files (if they exist):

    
   /tmp/llbdbase.dat 
   /usr/lib/netls/conf/cur_db 
   /usr/lib/netls/conf/lic_db 
   /usr/lib/netls/conf/lic_db.bak 
   /usr/lib/netls/conf/log_file 
   /etc/ncs/glb.e 
   /etc/ncs/glb.p 
   /etc/ncs/glb_log 
   /etc/ncs/glb_obj.txt 
   /etc/ncs/glb_site.txt 
   

3. Rerun /usr/lib/netls/conf/netls_config.

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   **** NOTE: **** If you respond NO to the questions about starting the llbd and netlsd automatically when the machine boots, you will need to start the daemons manually after a reboot to use NetLS controlled products.

   You do not need to manually start the daemons now; this will be done automatically in the next step.

   Any time you need to start the daemons manually, use the following commands (in this order):

    
      startsrc -s llbd 
      startsrc -s glbd 
      startsrc -s netlsd 
   

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4. Run the /usr/lib/netls/conf/netls_first_time script that the netls_config script generated.
5. Run lssrc -a | pg to check that the daemons are all running.
6. You can use the following commands to check the NetLS setup:

    
      /usr/lib/netls/bin/ls_stat -tia 
      /usr/lib/netls/bin/ls_tv