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The Question is: I have an Alphastation 250 4/266 that has died, and would like to transfer the system disk from this machine into another, newer Alpha that we have on hand. I have determined that I can physically mount the old drive in the newer machine, and that the sy stem will boot. The machine I am trying to replace is the boot node of a VMS cluster. Unfortunately, afer it did, it determined (apparently due to the change in network device hardware addresses?) that there had been a cluster security violation (I'm guessing, this went by very fast), and now on subsequent boots it just stops at the "waiti ng to form or join a VMS cluster" message. How can I get the machine up and the appropriate parameters reset so this new Alpha with the system disk from the old cluster boot node can take over as the new cluster boot node? Thanks. The Answer is : You are considering a course that involves some effort, and is not the easiest path for an inexperienced system manager, You will have to find and reset any local application or system startup references to devices and to device names from the old host -- this includes MOUNT commands, network configurations, and other mechanisms. First, shut down the entire cluster. All nodes. Reset the cluster group and cluster password, per the cluster documentation. The tool is the SYSMAN utility. If you have other system disks, you will have to reset the group id and password on those system disks as well. (A more advanced though unsupported approach involves copying CLUSTER_AUTHORIZE.DAT to all system disks.) It would likely be best to simply use CLUSTER_CONFIG or CLUSTER_CONFIG_LAN to configure this node as the cluster boot node, and not try to continue through the current path. (Your current node appears to believe it is a satellite, or that there are insufficent votes present.) The OpenVMS Wizard would strongly encourage an upgrade to a more recent version of OpenVMS Alpha, and would also encourage replacing this disk with newer storage hardware. Reinstallation brings your system into a known state, where you can load user directories from the old disk.
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