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How to cluster FTP in Active/Passive mode in NW 6?
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| Kevin Hurni 2005-06-14, 5:45 pm |
| So the docs are useless. The FTP docs tell you to look at Novell's "
Cluster Services Overview & Installation" which doesn't mention FTP at
all.
I am ASSUMING this is the correct thing to do:?
1) Install FTP on all the servers you wish for it to failover to
2) comment out the nwftpd in the autoexec.ncf on these servers
3) setup the .cfg file and copy it to all the servers
4) Edit the cluster load script so that it has:
load nwftpd
5) edit the unload so that it has:
unload nwftpd
--Kevin
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| Timothy Leerhoff 2005-06-15, 2:45 am |
| I found it:
http://www.novell.com/documentation.../documentation/
nw65/ftp_enu/data/acli8p4.html
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Timothy Leerhoff
Novell Support Forum Volunteer Sysop
The future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still
forever
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| Kevin Hurni 2005-06-24, 5:45 pm |
| In article <HULre.159$Ix2.129@prv-forum2.provo.novell.com>,
ataubmanILoveSpam@novell.AndSpamLovesMe.com says...
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> No, they're not:
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> http://www.novell.com/documentation...ta/acli8p4.html
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Yes they are. My post was specifically regarding the NW 6.0 docs. The
online docs that are STILL there for NW 6.0 do NOT point you to the NW
6.5 doc link that you mentioned up there.
Go to the NW 6.0 PDF doc for FTP and go to page 50 and click the "Novell
Cluster Services Overview & Installation" link and tell me what you get.
You certainly don't get the NW 6.5 doc that you reference. And there's
a fair bit of diff. between NW 6 FTP and NW 6.5 FTP in the
setup/configuration and functionality. Not to mention differences
between Cluster services 1.7 and 1.6
--Kevin
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| Kevin Hurni 2005-06-28, 5:45 pm |
| In article <of1ve.3414$tz6.3275@prv-forum2.provo.novell.com>,
tleerhoffNO@SPAMqwest.net says...
> The clustering docs for FTP are:
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> http://www.novell.com/documentation...ta/acli8p4.html
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Yes, and if you go there, here's what it says:
If you are running NetWare FTP Server in ACTIVE/PASSIVE mode, it should
be launched from the FTP Server Cluster Resource load script. For more
details, see "Novell Cluster Services Overview and Installation".If you
are running FTP Server in ACTIVE/ACTIVE mode, it should be launched from
the AUTOEXEC.NCF file of each NetWare server in the cluster that will
run FTP Server. Add the following lines in the order specified to the
AUTOEXEC.NCF file of each NetWare server in the cluster that will run
FTP Server in ACTIVE/ACTIVE mode:
So they don't tell you what the load script is for active/passive (so
one just has to assume that active/active is the same). They tell you
to go to a link (that's what's in quotes) that links you to the cluster
services overview which doesn't mention anything about FTP
active/passive load script.
--Kevin
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| Andrew C Taubman 2005-06-28, 8:45 pm |
| http://www.novell.com/documentation...ta/acli8p4.html
says:
Configuring in Active/Passive Mode
1. Stop FTP Services by executing unload nwftpd on every node in the
cluster.
2. Edit autoexec.ncf and comment/remove ftpstart.ncf entry from
every FTP server in each of the nodes in the cluster. This lets FTP
Server to be started by NetWare Cluster Services.
3. Create etc directory in the shared volume directory and copy FTP
Server configuration file, (ftpserv.cfg) and restrictions file
(ftprest.txt) to shared_vol_name:/etc.
4. Edit shared_vol_name:/etc/ftpserv.cfg and make the following changes:
* In the RESTRICT_FILE parameter change the FTP user
restrictions file path to shared_vol_name:/etc/ftprest.txt
* In the FTPD_LOG parameter, change the FTP daemon log file
path to shared_vol_name:/etc.
5. Bring the resource status to offline and then modify the load and
unload scripts.
Using ConsoleOne®, select and right-click the Cluster resource
object, and then click Properties > Scripts > Cluster Resource Load
Script and Cluster Resource Unload Script.
1. Add the following at the end of the existing load script:
load nwftpd -c shared_vol_name:\etc\ftpserv.cfg
load ftpstat
The load script specifies the commands to start the
resource or service on a server or to mount the volume on a server.
2. Add the following at the beginning of the unload script:
unload ftpstat
unload nwftpd
Unload script specifies how the application or resource
should terminate.
6. Bring the cluster resource online.
FTP Server is now configured to work in the active/passive clustering mode.
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Andrew C Taubman
Novell Support Forums Volunteer SysOp
http://support.novell.com/forums
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