There is a set of tasks you
must perform before using DB2® high
availability instance configuration utility (db2haicu).
General
Before a database manager instance
owner can run db2haicu, a user with root authority
must run the preprpnode command.
preprpnode is
part of the Reliable Scalable Cluster Technology (RSCT) fileset for AIX® and the RSCT package for Linux.
preprpnode handles
initializing the nodes for intracluster communication. The
preprpnode command
is run as a part of setting up the cluster. For more information about
preprpnode, see:
For more information about RSCT, see
RSCT Administration Guide - What is RSCT?
Also,
a user with root authority must disable the iTCO_wdt and iTCO_vendor_support
modules.
You can verify that the modules are disabled by using the
lsmod command.
Before running
db2haicu, a database
manager instance owner must perform the following tasks:
- Synchronize services files on all machines that will be added
to the cluster.
- Run the db2profile script for the database
manager instance that will be used to create the cluster domain.
- Start the database manager using the db2start command.
For Linux,
the GNU C library (glibc) version must be 2.4-31.109.1 or higher.
Partitioned database environment
If you
have multiple database partitions to configure for high availability,
perform the following steps:
- Configure the DB2_NUM_FAILOVER_NODES registry
variable on all machines that are being added to the cluster domain.
- (Optional) Activate the database before running db2haicu.