You could set up the master server as the DNS server, but it might be too much work for all it is worth. Is there no DNS server outside your cluster that you could use to key this in?

Otherwise, you are probably better off syncing up the /etc/hosts file on the nodes every once in a while, backing it up as necessary (since creating new images would overwrite that file).

Cheers,

Bernard

Sarat C Maruvada wrote:

Hi Bernard. Thanks a lot.This definetely helps. Once thing is it rules out
the manual change of hosts file as this will definetely not help. But does
that mean that I would have to run a name server on the master node?
because currently the name look-ups in the cluster are "hosts" file based
and hence there had been no neccessity to run a local name server for the
cluster.

Sincerely,
Sarat.

On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Bernard Li wrote:


Hi Sarat:

You might be better off putting the hostname of the DB server in DNS or
something in your domain, so that it can be looked up instead of
depending on hosts file.

In the current state I think if you modify the /etc/hosts file, it will
get overwritten the next time nodes are imaged, etc.

Hope this helps.

Cheers,

Bernard

Sarat C Maruvada wrote:


Hi Bernard. Thank you very much for the prompt reply. I get the idea as to
what is to be done. The reason I had a doubt in the first place was i
would need to make the neccessary modification in the /etc/hosts file of
every node in the cluster. And this is a file that is periodically pushed
to all nodes. So I was wondering if there would be some kind of problem if
I manually edit this and push it to all nodes and then later on add a
slave node to the cluster. Thanks a lot for your time.

Sincerely,
Sarat.

On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Bernard Li wrote:



Hi Sarat:

So basically you want an independent server which acts as the database
server and you want your slave nodes to be able to mount a FS exported
off that database server.

This can actually be done really easily - you would basically just want
to set up the DB server separately (load the OS independently) and then
create an export for your NFS mount, then just modify your slave nodes'
/etc/fstab to reflect that.  You can do that very exactly with cexec.

If you have questions about any of the steps, please let us know.

Cheers,

Bernard

Sarat C Maruvada wrote:



Hello Everybody.I am currently building a Linux cluster for bioinformatic
application and am using OSCAR 2.3.1 for basic image installation. Using
this I have successfully managed to run all the slave nodes. What we would
like to add is a "database node", which will not be a part of slave nodes
but more independent like the master node. The file system will have to be
mounted on all the slave nodes but i have doubts about installing it like
any other OSCAR node. How sould I go about the integration of a node that
is not maintained by OSCAR with other oscar nodes??any help would be
appriciated.

Sincerely,
Sarat.


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