AAAREADME.1ST - Auto-trol Technology Corporation, DENVER, Colorado This DECUS Spring 1988 Symposia TAPE submission contains the whole set of management procedures used in managing an Ethernet VAX Cluster of 25 nodes in software development environment. The entire management philosophy may be briefly defined by: o CLUSTER must survive failure of several (BOOT) nodes o Node STARTUP must be the same regardless of BOOT node in use o STANDALONE Node boot must be similar (or same) as into CLUSTER o Products should be separated form VMS, each in it's own directory tree, system startup only calls PRODUCT startup procedures A document describing non-standard (sometimes unsupported) techniques and CLUSTER management approaches used is enclosed in this top level directory. Subdirectories contents: lavc$data:[LAVCCOM] - Procedures used in node startup/shutdown, user login. Copy of systartup.com, syshutdown.com. Cluster common files, such as SYSUAF.DAT have been deleted for DECUS tape. lavc$data:[LAVCMGM] - Procedures used in cluster day-to-day management lavc$data:[CHICO] - Database for the cluster "master" node CHICO lavc$data:[LISZT] - Database for the workstation LISZT lavc$data:[GRP300] - Databse for the user group 300 D I S C L A I M E R Author of this contribution does not claim any responsibility for correctness and/or functionality of enclosed software, which is provided primarily for reference purpose. Procedures contained in this submissin have NOT been cleaned, they may contain significant ammount of installation specifc data. Martin Brunecky Advisory Engineer Auto-trol Technology Corporation 12500 N. Washington St. DENVER, Colorado 80233 (303) 252 - 2499