ZZ00340: CENTRAL SERVER 3 INSTALLATION MAY FAIL IF USING SYMBOLIC LINKS.

IBM Cloud Orchestrator Fix Pack 2 (2.4.0.2) for 2.4
IBM Cloud Orchestrator Fix Pack 3 (2.4.0.3) for 2.4
IBM Cloud Orchestrator Interim Fix 1 for 2.4.0.2

APAR status

• Closed as documentation error.

Error description

• If you ICO installation plan includes the use of symbolic links
  to redirect install code to certain locations on disk, please
  reconsider using the "mount -o bind ..." option instead.
  
  In particular when sybolic link is used during CS3 install,
  after IWD is installed, the IWD service will fail to start and
  the ICO installer will then fail.
  

Local fix

• Use the following solution. Replace all symbolic links with
  
  "mount -o bind":
  
  1. Create destination directories:
  # mkdir /drouter
  # mkdir -p /opt/app/workload/sco/drouter /drouter
  2. Mount:
  # mount -o bind /opt/app/workload/sco/drouter /drouter
  
  This mount will be removed with server shutdown. After being
  sure IWD works properly system administrator can add a
  permanent mount to /etc/fstab.
  

Problem summary

• The customer was able to install CS1 and CS2 but CS3 failed at
  the end in the IWD part. The ds log and chef stacktrace files
  were shared for analysis
  

Problem conclusion

• Customer used a symbolic link for CS3 environment which was not
  supported as per IWD. To solve this all the symbolic links were
  replaced with mount -o bind.
  Link:-
  http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS4KMC_2.4.0.2/com
  .ibm.sco.doc_2.4/t_inst_iwd_non_default_directories.html?lang=en
  

Temporary fix

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APAR Information

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Fix information

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