18 Installing and configuring the product
Preinstallation
Also, you can get the patches from Hewlett-Packard’s Patch Database offered
under the Maintenance and Support section of the HP Services & Support - IT
Resource Center. HP’s Patch Database provides fast, accurate searches for the
latest recommended and superseded patches available for Veritas File System or
Veritas Volume Manager.
Setting PATH and MANPATH environment variables
The software and online manual pages for the packages comprising SFCFS are
installed in several different directories. However, there are symbolic links to all
commands in the /opt/VRTS/bin directory, and symbolic links to all manual
pages in /opt/VRTS/man. To make all SFCFS commands and manual pages
accessible when you do the installation, add /opt/VRTS/bin to your PATH and
/opt/VRTS/man to your MANPATH environment variables. Command line
examples in this guide assume these environment variables are set.
To prevent conflicts with VxFS manual pages previously installed with
JFS/OnLineJFS 3.5, the VxFS 5.0 manual pages are installed in the
/opt/VRTS/vxfs5.0/man directory. The /opt/VRTS/vxfs5.0/man
directory is automatically added to /etc/MANPATH when the VxFS 5.0 package
is installed. Make sure that the /opt/VRTS/man directory or the
/opt/VRTS/vxfs5.0/man directory goes before /usr/share/man in you
MANPATH environment variable so that the latest version of the VxFS manual
pages display.
Secure communication
Establishing a secure communication between nodes is required to install and
configure a cluster. The
ssh command provides a remote communication and a
greater level of security than the
rsh command.
See the Veritas Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions Getting
Started Guide.