ITEM: FH2248L

Bad lppsource / Failed install of node mknimres errors

Response:

Env:
AIX 4.1.5/PSSP 2.2/SP-9076


Problem:
Customer has a new high node which has AIX pre-installed. After
acquiring the ethernet address for it, customer is unable to boot
the node in normal mode any longer.  Customer gets a 243-244 hang.

Action Taken:
Had customer set the node into maintenance mode.  We ran into NIM 
allocation issues.  Found that customer's lppsource_name value for
his nodes were mixed one had a value of aix415, the other had an 
incorrect value of default.  

This was found with the splstdata -n command.

We corrected this by changing the information through 
smitty server_dialog, and the customer was able to get
the other node to boot from disk and found that it was pre-installed
at AIX 4.2.1/PSSP 2.3.  Customer will have to do a overwrite install
at AIX 4.1.5/PSSP 2.2.  Customer has incomplete node definitions for
the second node.  Customer will fully define the second node through 
smitty node_data.  The customer ran into problems with setup_server.
These were his errors:

 mknimclient: 0016-239 no matching network between server node0
 (cw_hostname) and client node1 (node_hostname). One message for each
 node.  Nodes came preinstalled at higher code levels than CWS.

The customer needed to rebuild nim to fix this, and this was done by
these steps:

        Rebuilt NIM to deal with problem.
        nim -o unconfig master
        installp -u bos.sysmgt.nim.master
        setup_server  --> fails again with same error 0016-239
        have cust set the nodes to disk and run setup_server
        \#nim -o unconfig master  {ck that all /etc/niminfo.*
        \#rm /etc/niminfo  \#rm /etc/niminfo.prev
        cd /tftpboot; rm *install_info *config_info *new-srvtab
        \#installp -ug bos.sysmgt.nim.master
        \#installp -ug bos.sysmgt.nim.client
        set the nodes to install and run setup_server 
        Things seem to go better, but last thing that we see is same 
        error 0016-239.  I then ask cust to ck ipaddrs for nodes and
        they are different than /etc/hosts.  I then ask cust to ck the
        subnet via \#splstdata -a and the subnet of CWS is 255.255.255.0 
        and nodes is 192.0.0.0.  Cust then changed subnet of nodes to 
        255.255.255.0 and now setup_server runs correctly.

The setup_server ran clean at this point, and the customer was able to
install the nodes error free.



Support Line: Bad lppsource / Failed install of node mknimres errors ITEM: FH2248L

Dated: March 1998 Category: N/A

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