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Question
In PCM 4.2.1(HA enabled) after rebooting/shutting down of primary management node, the VIP(Virtual IP address) does not failover to secondary management node.
Answer
As per expectation, after reboot/shutdown of primary management node, the virtual ip address should do a fail-over to secondary management node, which does not happen in case of PCM 4.2.1.
This has been identified as a bug and is corrected in the below given formal fix..
pcm-4.2.1-build413071
Please follow the below instructions in order to install the given fix and go through the read me file for more details:
1. Download the "pcm-4.2.1-build413071" fix package from IBM Fix Central (link given in Related URL)
2. Upload the fix tar file to the Platform Cluster Manager management node.
3. On the Platform Cluster Manager management node, extract the fix tar file.
# mkdir -p /opt/pcm/pcm_4.2.1_build413071
# tar -zxvf pcm_4.2.1_413071_fix.tar.gz -C /opt/pcm/pcm_4.2.1_build413071
4. On the Platform Cluster Manager management node, back up the files /opt/pcm/bin/pcm-ha-controller, /opt/pcm/lib/python/kusu/ha/helper.py and replace it.
# mkdir -p /opt/pcm/pcm_4.2.1_build413071/backup
# cp /opt/pcm/bin/pcm-ha-controller /opt/pcm/pcm_4.2.1_build413071/backup
# cp /opt/pcm/lib/python/kusu/ha/helper.py /opt/pcm/pcm_4.2.1_build413071/backup
# cp /opt/pcm/pcm_4.2.1_build413071/pcm-ha-controller /opt/pcm/bin/
# cp /opt/pcm/pcm_4.2.1_build413071/helper.py /opt/pcm/lib/python/kusu/ha/
5. Repeat steps 2. to 4. on the Platform Cluster Manager standby/secondary management node.
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16 September 2018
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